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“Decisions, not results. Do the right thing enough times and the results will take care of themselves in the long run”
/ Thomas Austin “Amarillo Slim” Preston, Jr./

First I want to introduce a guy that stated the thing above. Amarillo Slim Preston is a professional gambler. His main poker achievement is the victory on the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972. It seems to me the guy knows the topic. He proved that. And if the guy earns enough money for his family playing poker I can conclude that he can do that well.
I’m inclined to believe him at least.

And you know the meaning of this statement is that a poker player has to do right things and in the long run he will benefit from it. It doesn’t matter that he had lost a lot of money in that hand. What really matters is the way he had lost the money and the experience he had got in that hand.
As I’ve already written in my post concerning the fundamental theorem of poker if the guy makes the right moves just the same as he knew his opponents’ cards he will be in profit for sure.

I have not played for some time as I had a lot of other stuff to do. That was just a couple of hands but they have given a pleasure for a while to me as I could see that I had done the right moves and they had brought benefit.
Look at this hand. It seems to me that I’ve made flawless victory here.
I was #3 with

Preflop.
SB Posted Small Blind $0.05
BB Posted Big Blind $0.10
#1 Folds, #2 Calls $0.10, #3 Raised to $0.20, 6 folds, BB Calls $0.10, #2 Calls $0.10.
3 players 6.5 Bets

Flop
BB Bets $0.10, #2 Calls $0.10, #3 Calls $0.10
3 players 9.5 Bets

Turn
BB Bets $0.20, #2 Raised to $0.40, #3 Raised to $0.60, BB Calls $0.40, #2 All In for $0.20
3 players 13.75 Big Bets

River
BB Checks, #3 Bets $0.20, BB Raised to $0.40, #3 Reraised to $0.60, BB Calls $0.20

#3 Shows -  

BB Shows -  

#2 Shows -  

be0wolf Wins 19.75 Big Bets from pot with : Two Pair, Aces and Queens

I think even Amarillo Slim Preston couldn’t play this hand better.
Any objections?

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