Poker gems, #361

Mike Caro, in Poker Player newspaper, May 24, 2010, p. 4.


Most of your poker profit is made by folding....

If you play a lot more hands than you should, you can't win, even if you have superior skills and outplay your opponents during the race for the pot. Once you've committed to a pot unprofitably, the best you can do is use superior play to cut your losses. And reducing losses, when a hand shouldn't have cost you anything at all, isn't smart.