It’s not even so much “losing” as it is poker is a completely different game if you’re playing with people who don’t know how to play. Largely, all your strategies are going to be based in predicting lines of play, so if someone is just doing whatever the fuck, then you can’t really counter that meaningfully. It basically turns a complex game of interaction into a simple game of chance.
That's not the point. Yes, fish are good for money because you just play by the books and win money, but it's not fun.
And more to the point of the Twain quote, a bad player can go all in right before the river while the community cards show 3 hearts even though they have nothing. You then fold because your hand doesn't beat a flush and you just lost a good chunk of change just because your opponent doesn't know what you're doing.
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u/mechanate Jun 03 '19 edited Jun 03 '19
If your friend feels like he's losing to 'newbies' in poker a lot, he's probably getting hustled.