The Community Card Review – IV

An old farmer's advice applied to poker. But use it everyday for everything.

*Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. * (Be rested and prepared)

* Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.* (Keep bad cards and draws away from your chips)

* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump..* (Don’t mess with big stacks unless armed with a chain saw)

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.* (Slow play usually hurts you)

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.* (The in control player is dangerous)

* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.* (Forgive the obnoxious, just take their money)

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.* (ditto)

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.* (Don’t try to out-play good players. Let them ‘fancy play’ themselves into trouble)

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.* (Drop the bad beat hurt against the cards, the poker site or the player)

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.* (You cannot un-ring a bell. Card hands are forgotten. Actions and reactions to them are long remembered)

* Every path has a few puddles.* (There is a lot of variance in poker. Learn to accept it)

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.* (Playing badly to beat a bad player is not a good idea)

* The best sermons are lived, not preached. (Be the example of what to do, not the opposite)

* Most of the stuff people worry about stuff that ain't never gonna happen anyway.* (Bet your hands when you have the best of it. Don’t see demons that are not there. Tough to do when the deck is against you, but you will not recover running scared)

* Don't judge folks by their relatives.* (Don’t judge folks by their play. Not everyone can be Phil Ivey – or Faldo)

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.* (ditto)

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.* (Play honorable poker at all times)

* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.* (Never tap the glass)

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.* (You can try to time bluffs, but even in the best of situations – it is still gambling. So you should never say, “How could you call that?????”)

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.* (Bad streak? Go do something else for a while)

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.* (Amen)

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.* (Double Amen – we have seen the enemy and it is us)

* Always drink upstream from the herd.* (Do the opposite of what everyone else is doing)

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.* (You cannot learn except from your mistakes and paying attention to how the other player maybe made you make it)

* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.* (Don’t give poker lessons at the table. The person you tell will not listen, but the other eight heard it loud and clear)

* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.* (You are a player at the table. Not the sheriff of the world)

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply and leave the rest to God. (Triple Amen)