001 Be Patient
Thursday, October 19, 2006
101 Ways To Improve Your Poker Game
#001 - Be Patient
In poker it is always vitally important to be patient with yourself, your opponents, and most importantly the cards.
In hold'em for instance you only receive decent starting hands a small percentage of the time. Only a small percentage of those good starting hands will improve with the flop. Mostly poker is a game of waiting for your shot. Waiting for the circumstances to be just right for you to take advantage and prosper. If you are someone who has a very limited attention span or must have action 90% of the time then maybe poker isn't for you.
Patience is also very important when playing in tournaments. One large mistake I see quite often is people making panicky moves at the table when the blinds are still relatively low in relation to the chip stacks. There is nothing more detrimental to your tournament life than overbetting pots. Throwing in monster raises when a much smaller raise could have accomplished the same goal with much less risk. There is a certain point in a tournament where you are the short stack and it becomes an all in or fold type scenario. Another mistake I see is people shifting into this mode way to early.
In many ways poker is a lot like fishing. Some days you get lucky and don't go more than a few minutes without a good bite. Some days you find yourself waiting hours for a nibble which turns out to be nothing more than a guppy. There is always the possibility that the next big one is only minutes or seconds away.
posted by JD52 @ 10:42 AM,
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