Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Monday Mar 30th, 2009
Category: Poker
www.pkr.com – Fear of having the losing hand is never something you want to signal to your opponents in poker. For some, sunglasses are worn to disguise any tells their eyes may give, but for me, the more of my face an opponent can see, the better.
I do not pay much attention to physical tells but if I notice someone looking at me to pick on a tell, I will try and very carefully give off the opposite signals.
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Signals given off in betting patterns usually display fear or lack of it, far more clearly. If someone bets the flop heavily then checks the turn, it will often mean they have taken a shot at stealing the pot and ae now worried that they are beaten.
I think that for the most part, poker is a game where you should not be fearful of losing. If you think the correct choice is to commit your chips to hand and you go in front, of course you might still lose, but you have done all you can. In that case you might regret putting your chips in the moment you chose to, but would you really regret the decision if the deck was reshuffled then the hand replayed? The fact is that all you can do is put your chips in the middle when you think you are a favourite to have the winning hand by the end. Preferably you want to be a bigger favourite than 55% but in shorter stacked scenarios you should take whatever advatage you can get.
Do not be fearful of trusting your instincts, but of course try to protect your chips when you hav a strong stack too, because this is one scenario you can decide when to fight your battles. Pkr.com
Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Mar 19th, 2009
Category: Poker
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But if this all sounds too big for your particular tastes, you will find much to cater for the less serious or less skilled players onsite. There is a poker school to teach you everything you need to know to involve yourself in the action with a reasonable chance to win some money. Also there is a regular news update to keep you informed of all the latest goings on in the poker world. Freerolls are plentiful here too which can be vital to breathing fresh life into a dying bankroll.
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I personally used to enjoy this type of game although I haven’t played regularly on a site which offers them for a while now.
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Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Mar 12th, 2009
Category: Poker
www.pokerheaven.com – This hand took place in my recent live tournament, and was a nasty bad beat, but it wound up being the catalyst for an amzing comeback, ending in victory for me some two or three hours later.
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Having been dealt (Kc,Ks) in the small blind, I was delighted to see the shortest stack at the table with 600 chips, move all in, being flat called by the two players on my right. Naturally, I wanted to play heads up against the short stack, or maybe have only one other caller from the opponents on my right. I moved all in for 5,400 total, and was instantly called by one of the other two players with chips. This quick call left me fearing (A,A) and I was a bit confused, but relatively happy, to see him turn over (8h,9h). As the flop and turn brought no real help to my opponent, I just had time to think "any card but a Six on the river, and I’ll have a lovely chipstack".
The river brought a crushing (6s) to make a straight for the (8h,9h) and after a quick count, I was left with a paltry 700 chips in front of me. Quite what our player with (8h,9h) was thinking later became apparent when he explained that "well any two cards can win". He wasn’t a particularly experienced player, and he was playing crazy, lucky poker, which is a dangerous combination.
The correct move was almost certainly for him to fold, but although I didn’t realise it at the time, the most incredible roller coaster ride of a tournament for me, had only just begun. pokerheaven.com
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Posted by Trix @ 12:00 AM, Thursday Mar 5th, 2009
Category: Poker
www.coralpocker.com – When it comes to seeing a flop come down after we’ve folded a hand, we all know the feeling of seeing our folded hand hit perfectly. This will happen some of the time, but it certainly isn’t a reason to start playing hands that simply aren’t logical to play.
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Despite this, it does serve as a reminder that sometimes, however worn down our chipstack is beginning to look, all it takes is a couple of all ins, with a little bit of luck, to be right back in the game.
That is of course one of the great things about the game, that you are never out of a tournament until that last chip is in the pot, and that final card arrives and chooses not to save you.
It is for this reason, that I always like to open up and play shove or fold poker when my stack gets very low. There is always a point in my mind where I refuse to let myself get any lower on chips regardles of the cards I am being dealt. The simple reason for this is that the lower on chips you get, the more double throughs you will need to be back around the average chips for the tournament. In my mind, there is a tipping point, where the risks I will have to take to fight back to a reasonable chipstack get too much. I feel there is less risk in the present moment, if I shove with a hand like (7,8) or (8,9) if you cannot find a strong hand. The reason I choose these cards is that you are very likely to have two live cards, and this means, you are never a huge underdog going to the flop. if you look at making this move with hands such as (A,5) or (K,10), you greatly increase your chance of being called by a hand that has you dominated.
So as far as my views are concerned, never hang on to your small stack waiting on that big hand for too long. Sometimes, you just might find you are better off shoving the chips in and giving luck a chance, or fate a choice, as the case may be. Coralpocker.com
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