| >> |
!F9AXKingDI 01/11/12(Wed)19:25 No.5352513>>5352199
Isn't that the point?
>>5352217
Losing is a part of doing anything competitively, both when you start out and as you get better.
I
handle myself well enough that I don't lose to someone around my age. I
only lose to professionals and older players and even then I give them
trouble.
Real poker ability isn't something you can learn by
playing for free. For example, if on the flop you have a flush draw, you
have 4 to 1 odds that flush draw will hit. Given that, your investment
to see the next hand should not exceed four times the amount you would
have to call.
On the flip side, if you suspect someone else is on
a draw, it's in their interest obviously to check or to see the hand as
cheaply as possible. If no one bets and its to you, even if you may not
have the hand, depending on how you've been reading their play style up
until this point, it may be a smart move to decisively cut them off by
betting to force them to pay over the odds, so if this scenario were to
play out thousands of times, in the long run they would be losing money
according to probability.
How you raise is important too, you can
raise immediately as soon as its your turn to indicate confidence, or
you can intentionally delay your play to indicate a cold calculating
move. How you move your chips, the tone in your voice, eye contact, all
of that is important when you want to influence the other person to fold
or call into a hand you already know you've won (by feigning weakness)
I can keep going if you'd like, this is just the tip of the iceberg for me. |
