Years before I was even born, one of poker’s most influential authors, Mike Caro, invented a term for an illness that is something of an epidemic in the poker world these days. The term is ‘Fancy Play Syndrome’, or FPS.

It currently infects a massive number of what I like to call ‘blue belt players’ – people who have some experience in the game, but are not experts. A player suffering from Fancy Play Syndrome thinks things like this:
If I push all-in, she’ll have to put me on Aces, and she’ll fold her top pair.If I limp with Aces, I might win a really big pot here.I’m sure he’s got the nut flush.