Getting Unstuck

Aladdin $1-2 NL Holdem
6 hours
+ $40

So when I lost my initial buy-in on the very first hand and soon lost another massive pot when I got all-in preflop with AA and lost to QQ, I figured it was probably not going to be a big day for me. So when I got back above even, I was out of my chair so fast you'd have thought it had caught fire.

Steve was sitting at the next table and when he made quads he used my line of, "Call this if you don't like money." Duly respectful of the origins of this technique, he kicked up a dollar to me for using the line successfully. Sometimes I am so proud of my students that I am like a papa seeing his children finally make good. And when I think of this particular technique, it puts me in mind of what Mr. Miyagi says in the Karate Kid when Daniel asks him about the Crane Technique: "When do right, no can defense!"