Mike Caro, in his book "Caro's Most profitable Hold'em Advice", stresses the importance of treating poker like a business. Like any business, where you decide to set up shop is critical to your success or failure. Fortunately with poker, you get to pick your location every day and if you don't find one location very profitable, you can easily pick up and move to a different table, casino, or on-line site.
Last night I went to a casino while my wife went to the hockey game with a friend of ours. For convenience sake, I choose to go to the casino right beside the arena where the game was. For three hours I sat at a pretty tight table, played as well as I could, and ended up ahead by exactly $100.
The game let out. The home team had won and a swarm of happy fans came into the casino to celebrate. I met my wife and our friend, who informed me that another friend of ours would be meeting us there in about forty minutes. I could go back to the poker tables for another hour if I wanted to. The Little Angel on my shoulder said to be happy with my $100 win and not go back. The Little Devil on my other shoulder said "Poker! Poker! Poker!" Guess who I listened to?
The poker room had filled up with hyped-up hockey fans and there were twice as many tables going as when I left a few minutes earlier. I bought more chips and sat at a table that bore no resemblance to the tight, thoughtful group of players I had been matching wits with earlier. There were maniacs here betting nearly every hand, raising with nothing, drinking, laughing and having a good time gambling. Okay. My stack got eaten away as I let myself get pushed out of pot after pot, but eventually I was dealt a monster hand and was paid off. Basically that one hand was all I really needed to win. After my hour (okay, hour and a half) I had made another $140.
Location, location, location.
I have circled the home dates on the hockey schedule for the upcoming season.
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