It's been a while since I've done that!

The short version: PL O/8 tourney. I'm all in on the turn. Flipped over my four cards. Truly amazed to see that I'm drawing nearly dead. Busted out first, and on the first hand, even. ( The long version just makes me look even more stupid. )

So, last night gave me some new rules:

• At the moment when uncertainty about your own holding would impact a decision, always just look back at your cards or the board if you aren't sure, regardless of the tells it might give off. The tell-EV you give back is not as bad as the negative hand-misread-EV.
• Always ask dumb questions of the management about the structure of the games or the rules, even if it makes you look stupid for not knowing. Making your opponents think you're stupid is always to your advantage, anyway, and the answer to the "dumb" question may reveal that the question wasn't so dumb after all.
• Never play at that club again. (This is for almost wholly different reasons not addressed in the post, but I'll likely get to them in a later post.)