Author: horse-racing-free-tips

If you intend to create for yourself an image of a bad player you can. The question in not why you can do that but it is mostly why you should do it and only then how you can accomplish this purpose. The idea is that at some point in your game you might get lost within the rules you have read about and learned about and because of this you will play tighter and tighter, not willing to risk money on hands that are just not worth it. After you learn a thing or two about poker you start realizing that you were initially playing too loose and too many hands and now you will fall into the other extreme and play too little hands. This will cause you win small pots because your games style is going to be too readable and people will start fearing you.

You will have to understand that the odds are there for everyone, they are not there to fight against you, they are there for you. You are not at war with the odds you are at war with your opponents and you must act accordingly. Remember that you must add value to you good hands and for this you have to play stupidly sometimes and confuse the opponents so they will lose their respect over your game and when you really have a hand you can benefit from it.

So, if you want to be seen as a bad player you can always:

– Raise from under the gun. Being under the gun means you are sitting next to the blinds, in the right. If from that position you bet twice before having to see your cards and everyone at the table will clearly label you as a gambler. The players that have some experience will see how you did this from the worst possible position and they will assume you are a beginner or you just play bad.

– Bluff and let them catch you. Every player hopes when he or she makes a call that they are on a quest to expose a bluffer. Trying to keep you honest is what you need them to do, because if they see now you are bluffing they will assume you will do that again so they will call endlessly on your bets even when you have a strong hand of course.

– Start with weak cards and take them all the way, so high to even beat a better hand with them and you will make a name at the table that you play bad cards. This is what you want them to think when you will have your strong hand.

If you manage to make the table label you as a bad player then you can get ready to make some serious money on your next big hand.

No one can really tell the way their game is, if it is good or not. But the streak of wins and losses can give a pretty good idea on that. To determine whether a play is perfect or not or to find out just how the perfect player would play poker, you must first look at the player itself.

In a poker player’s evolution there are three important phases. First they are novices. Being a novice means you are fairly new and don’t know much about poker, no matter what you may think. The problem with novice players is that they can remain in this stage forever. Because evolving means some effort and they are just not ready to make that effort. Novice players play too many cards, they don’t know the strategy or worse, they know it but can’t decide when to apply it or wrongly apply it. Novice players lose most of the times. The next stage is called the booksmart player stage. A booksmart player is a player that read a lot about poker and he is currently discovering that he should play fewer hands, he should apply strategy and this way he is making some money. Then, after passing through this stage a player climbs up to the expert category or the situational expert stage. When in this stage, you can even play more hands than a booksmart player does without loosing.

Being in the final stage is ideal. Almost any player that takes the time to learn or read a thing or two about poker can easily get to be a booksmart player, but from that point to the final stage the road is long. Poker is a interesting game because the gap between how good you hand is in comparison with the hand of you opponent is inverse proportional to the money amount you will win from that hand .if your hand is just a little bit better than you opponent’s then the cases are that you will make a lot of money, much more than when winning over a hand much lower than yours. Or if you are just about to lose because of the little gap between you too, you will probably make a lot of money if you do win. Basically beating them barely makes the profits. So to make a lot of money, hands that aim just that are over-played by the situational experts. This in not a thing that can be learnt from books and it takes courage and perfect understanding of odds to pull it off.