4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 3,107
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I hear you on this. I am the master of cold cards in our local games. I tend to win a couple small pots early with good cards/aggressive moves, and then I'll go cold and play tight until I'm sitting across from the last remaining player, and he's got 15000 in chips to my 2000 or some such. The only variation I've seen in the last couple months has been that one game out of every three, I'll get good cards that are always outranked by one (middle flush to the nut flush, low straight to the high, full house to a bigger one, nut full house to four of a kind - that was one four hour tournament just a month ago, and it still chafes my ass).
All the advice I can give is to tighten up and wait it out. But if it seems like a night-long trend, start keeping a sharper eye out for opportunities to steal pots. Know your opponents; listen for lots of checking and those strong-when-weak tells, and go in aggressive when you have position and the opposition is soft. If it doesn't work, at least you'll cash out early and not have to waste a couple more hours on those cold cards.
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