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Winning Concept 14: Only The Best Hand Wins
Do not fall in love with your cards, no matter how pretty they look. There are no prizes for second best at poker. Only the winner takes the cake. If you have kings over 6s on Fifth Street in seven-card stud, and an opponent gets dealt an open pair of aces, the dirge has begun. If those aces are paired with a second pair, you're chasing with a dead hand.
Aces up beat kings up in poker. Though you may improve, those aces have an equal chance of improving. Unless you have very compelling pot odds, the romantic interlude is over—it's time to fold.
Sometimes you must fold strong hands in the face of heavy betting, even though you suspect an opponent is suspected of bluffing. There's nothing wrong with being bluffed out of pots. That's part of the game. If you are never bluffed out of a pot, that means you're calling too often, and opponents are reaping showdown harvest with this loose play. Good players respect cards and can be bluffed. Only weak players will never give up the ship—until it sinks. Don't worry about trying to scratch out a win in every pot. Just win the ones you can and minimize losses in the ones you can't.
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