All poker players have at one time or another sat down in their seats — be it their favorite armchair at home while playing online poker or in a faux-leather number at their local casino — and thought they were the next Phil Ivey. What causes this ridiculous overconfidence? More often than not it comes from the not-so-small fact that they were receiving more than their fair share of good cards.
Poker seems easy when you are being dealt aces, kings, queens, and other such premium holdings time after time, hour after hour. But it can seem equally as impossible when the Poker Gods decide to provide you with hole cards with which even Gus Hansen or Viktor Blom wouldn’t be caught bluffing.