Poker Concorde

This week, it has been demonstrated to me that in any poker tournament, as long as you are still in the tournament, anything is possible. I had seen one player suffer a bad beat and fall to 2,400 in chips. He had been playing well up to the point as usual, but after suffering his bad beat, looked resigned to his tournament being over. He shoved all his chips in the next hand and doubled up, then did the same thing on the next hand, ultimately losing. I can sympathise with that dejected feeling after seeing all your hard work undone by poor luck, but as I mentioned to him after he had doubled up, he still had enough chips to get himself back into contention.

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At that time I was sitting with around 700 chips, and in some ways, I understandably expected to join him at the bar within a few more hands. Despite expecting this to be the case, I did not openly invite it by doing anything reckless, because deep down I know that with poker, there is always a glimmer of hope whilst you are still in your seat.
It can be hard to feel like carrying on when you see your chips decimated simply beacuse you made the correct decision, but always remember that same luck that saved your opponent, may decide to save you, when it counts.
That same player came back later on in the evening to watch, when there were three of us remaining in the tournament, and upon seeing my sizeable chipstack, he said with a smile "you were right, I shouldn’t have given up".
However tough it might be to recover when you find yourself shortstacked in this way, you have to firstly check the blind sizes and their proximity to you, then simply do what you can to stay alive.

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