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When it comes to being involved in a growing pot during a hand of poker, we would all ideally like to be sitting there with a completed flush or full house, but that is not the nature of poker. The size of the bet, the pot size, and the odds of completing a draw should all be carefully factored into your decision to stay in a hand or not. Importantly, you should try not to ever feel annoyed if you make the correct fold and find out your hand would have been completed. After all, if you made the most logical choice with the information available to you, you can’t ever blame yourself for that.

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One of the key mistakes you will find amateur players making, is to wait for hands too often, no matter what it costs them to find out. This is one of the reasons that players of this kind with luck on their side, can be so dangerous. Because sometimes you raise enough to force anyone with a weak draw out of the pot, then find out at the end that in fact a player called anyway, making what is technically a poor call, and has beaten you.

In a broader sense, we all spend time waiting for cards when our hole cards are not being too kind. This type of patience is an important part of poker, and if we can play this waiting game without damaging our chipstack too much, we give ourself the chance to get involved when the odds are stacked in our favour.