Getting Lucky
31 August 2010Getting Lucky By B. Butler To win in online poker, sometimes you just have to get lucky. Even the best online poker players, when in the midst of their routine, can be blinded to the correct way to play a hand, and end up winning only because the nature of the game allows a margin of error. Never more clearly has this been proven than in the first broadcast of the 2010 World Series of Poker, where in the $50,000 Players Tournament, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi ended up going from one of the short stacks at the final table to a victory, though only after a series of hands he continually got his money in behind again and again. Mizrachi seemed to just have his head on backwards at Everest Poker. In spots where he was getting slow played, he pushed. In spots where he was ahead, he got pushed off. More than once he was all in way behind and caught up by catching cards by lucky of the air. This is not to be frowned upon, or in instance that he did not deserve the bracelet, because regardless of going in bed, he was there to be in. You have to get lucky to win, and in this instance, the player got there regardless of his will: the cards and the constant presence did some amount of the work.
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