Tips to winning poker
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Tips From Doyle Brunson
Writer: Doyle Bruson
PAY ATTENTION...and it will pay you
Concentrate on everything when you're playing. Watch and listen ... remember you have to do both, and relate the two. You listen to what your opponent says, but you watch what he's doing independently of what he says because a lot of players talk loose and play tight, and a little later they'll reverse it on you. So you look at a man every time he's involved in a hand. You judge him every time. That's the way you get to know him and his moves. If you aren't learning what you want to know just by watching and listening, create your own opportunity. Try to bluff at him the first good opportunity, and see if he'll call you or not what kind of hand he'll call with, and what kind he'll throw away. Of course, anybody with a lick of sense is trying to keep you from reading him. But you can still figure him because it is very, very difficult for any man to conceal his character. A man's true feelings come out in a Poker game You'll see smart lawyers playing Poker and giggling and carrying on like school kids. And a man's hostilities can boil over after a while, too. Watch a ballgame with a man when he's betting a lot of money on it. You'll learn what kind of temperament he's got, how well he can take disappointment. That's the way it is with Poker.
If you wanted to use Poker just for a test of character, solely to learn about the men you'll have to deal with away from the Poker table, it would be a telling test. As a matter of fact, isn't that what a lot of Friday night Poker games between business acquaintances are really all about? Size them up at the Friday night Poker sessions ... and then take advantage of them during the next business week. This brings us to another subtlety of Poker: Not everybody you're going to play against thinks the way you do. Almost everybody wants to win, but they expect to win in different ways.
PLAY AGGRESSIVELY, it's the winning way
There's a very well known Poker player, a man who enters the World Series of Poker every year, who has a talent for figuring out exactly what your hand is. But when he decides that you're holding a Pair of Jacks (in Hold 'em) and his own hand will not beat the Jacks, he'll try to make you throw your hand away. To me, that's not being aggressive ... that's being stupid. It works sometimes, but should you jeopardize your money when you think your opponent's got a
good hand? Let him win the pot and wait till you think he doesn't have much of anything. That's when you can try to bluff him out of the pot. Or wait until you think you have him beat. Everybody in Poker thinks he knows what a tight player is, but I'm going to define it again because so many people confuse the term "tight" with "solid". "Tight" means conservative. A tight player is a player that is tight pretty much all the time. But a "solid" player is a player who's tight about entering a pot in the first place ... but after he enters the pot he becomes aggressive.
Most good players, by the way, are solid. The opposite of the tight player, as you would imagine from the name, is the loose player. He'll play most of the pots. Often he'll be drunk. You need patience to play him, and you require a good hand to bet because he'll call you with extremely weak hands. The perfect opponent to face is the Calling Station. He's similar to a loose drunk player, but he rarely bets. Most of the time, he just checks and calls. And if you cant beat a man who always checks to you ... you can't beat anyone.
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"Mistakes" according to Theorem of Poker
Friday, June 1, 2007
It is very important to understand that when we talk about making a mistake accoring to the fundamental Theorem of Poker, we're not necessarily talking about playing badly. We're talking about a very strange kind of mistake- Playing differently from the way you would if you could see all your opponents's flush, that player is making a mistake to call me. But a player surerly cannot be acused of plaing badly by calling or, as is mich more likely, raising with a king-high staright flush. Since he doesn't know what i have, he is making a mistake in a different sense of the world.
In advanced poker you are constantly trying to make your opponent or opponents play in a way that would be incorrect if they knew what you had. Anytime they play in the right way on the basis of what you have, you have not gained a thing. According to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, you play winning poker by playing as closely as possible to the way you would play if you could see all your opponents's cards; and you try to make your opponents play as far away from this Utopian level as possible. The first goal is accomplished mainly by reading hands and players accuretely, because the closer you can come to figuring out someone else's hand, the fewer Fundamental Theorem poker mistakes you will make. The second goal is accomplished by playing deceptively.
This article is from poker.tj
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Poker- Rules for misdeals.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Poker is a game at which large sums of money can change hands, so it is as well to agree a procedure for those irregularities that can happen by accident even practiced card players. The following are recommended action for certain situation.
Misdeals
A deal counts as a misdeal if any of the following happens.
- Some cards are found not to be included in the pack.
- some cards in the pack are discovered to be faced, i.e. are face up rather than face down.
- Any player points out that the cards weren't properly shuffled and cut.
- The dealer accidentally drops and faces cards.
- More than one player has the wrong number of cards.
The deal is cancelled and the dealer loses his turn. The deal passes to the next player. The cards must be shuffled and cut again before the new deal. Any antes in the pot remain, and are duplicated by the antes properly made for the next pot. By prior agreement, misdeals cancelled because of the dealer's error may insure a fine on him, say one chip to each player.
Other errors are less serious and do not result in a misdeal.
- If a dealer makes a mistakes during the deal which can be easily rectified, such as accidentally dealing a card to the wrong player, he can correct it by transferring the card as necessary.
- If a dealer omits a player in the deal he must give his own hand to the omitted player. If he deals a hand too many, the excess hand becomes dead, i.e. it is discarded and put to one side.
- Players should count their cards before looking at them, and if a player finds he has a card too few, the dealer should give him the top card of the pack. if a player has a card too many, the last card dealt is returned to dealer and is dead.
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