Evening out

They say that in a long enough timeline, everything statistically evens out. If you play an infinite number of poker hands, your bad streaks are going to even out. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you’re not going to play an infinite number of poker online hands. I’d like to say you’re going to live forever, but I’d put odds against immortality. Unfortunately, a lot of people (myself included) tend to take the “everything evens out” mentality and toss out the “eventually” part of the statement, and end up shortening the timeline to-”I’ll make up for it in the next hand.” This way of thinking can end up costing you a lot of money. It’s very easy (particularly when things aren’t going well) to imagine that you’re due for a good casino hand, just because you’re on a dry streak. The problem is-every hand is individual. If you start playing hands based on the cards you’ve gotten earlier, you’re going to end up being disappointed. Just because your pocket 5’s drew dead last hand, they’re not more likely to flop into a set with this one. I’m not saying that it won’t happen, but it’s not any more or less likely to because of you your previous hands went.

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