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Sports betting analogies in poker
There are many similarities between playing poker for a living and sports betting but one of the least understood of them all is in how the level of sophistication on the part of your opponents allows you to make money in any poker game. This is exactly the same with sports betting because the information [...]
How To Build A Poker Bankroll
Well its a new year and its time to roll in some new years resolutions. This year’s resolution for me is to build up my poker bankroll to the point that I can make the leap from casual player to rounder. Now how do I intend on doing this? Good question. Hopefully some of these tips will be able to work for you as well.
Getting your nicotine fix at the poker table
A few years back a certain poker pro who will remain nameless got together with a few of his anti friends and decided to get smoking banned from the card room. Their reason was simple, they didn’t like the smoke in the room as it interfered with their game. Solution – ban smoking altogether from the card room. You can still smoke at the slots, blackjack tables, roulette wheel, and various other locations inside a casino, just not at the card table.
Confidence at the poker table
Recently I was looking at what made the difference between a winning session and a losing session for myself. I began looking at more than hand selection, and focused more on the why one session was so much better than another. I came up with a few different reasons why a session turned into a losing one for me.
Beating a tight opponent
There’s nothing worse than having a tight opponent at the table. Well, actually, there’s nothing worse than having a tight opponent at the table when you’re playing in a home game with low blinds or a tournament where the blinds don’t increase very quickly. That’s if they have some chips, of course.
Make use of your poker intuition
As you begin learning and more and more about poker, your intuition begins to sharpen. You become better at pinpointing opponent hand ranges, or in some cases even putting them on an exact hand. Every pot your opponent plays or doesn’t play gives you more information as to their way of playing poker. Each bet he makes reveals that much information for you to go off of. But as your intuition sharpens, you need to remember to listen to it.
Poker Home Game Strategies
Well as you know there are different payouts, buyins, and a variety of characters at poker home games so covering a blanket strategy is very difficult to do. I’m going to try to break it up in different groups to give you a decent strategy plan. Let me say though that if it’s a group of friends playing together, have fun first, then play to win for bragging rights. Otherwise, it’s not a fun game and no one will want you back.
Selecting the right table for your game
Table selection is vital to your poker success. If you sit down at the wrong table you’ll drain your stack, if you select the right table, your bankroll will increase. Now playing poker just for the sake of playing poker is a very unwise decision. Being that online poker allows you to look at the average pot you can make a selection of which table you would prefer to sit at without even scouting the table.
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