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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What is a "Good" Poker Player ?

Poker is a fascinating game... if i had infinite amounts of money, i would play every hand and try to out play everyone on the table... every pot would be mine unless you have the nuts or you are willing to go all the way to the end to wrestle it out of my hands...

unfortunately, no one has infinte amounts of money... and that's not the point of poker anyway... calculating odds, making good reads and then trusting your instincts, patience, discipline, guts to pull the trigger... all of these combine to form the "good" poker player... and what does the good player do with all of these qualities ?

1- Create a table image of unpredictable aggression...

2- Wait for the right opportunities to exploit...

and then

3- Exploit the hell out of those opportunities when they present themselves...

on most days, most good players can do at least 2 out of 3 fairly well... and some days, they do all 3 really well...

so here's the rule from now on...

Spot weak players... and attack them mostly...
Spot strong players... and play back at them once or twice, so they back off...
Do not back away from gambles when you are ahead... even if you are not that far ahead...

1 comment:

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