Pot control is the art of manipulating the size of the pot based on the relative strength of your hand. “Relative strength of your hand” refers to how strong your hand is in comparison to the likely range of hands of your opponent. This means that the tighter your opponent is, the stronger hand you will need to play a big pot and the looser your opponent is, the weaker your hand can be to play a big pot.
For example if you have top pair against a calling station fish, you would usually be correct to place bigger bets on the flop, turn and river. With top pair against a tight nit, it’s more of a judgment call, but you still usually want to avoid a situation where you end up with all of your chips in the middle.
Pot control is one of the most important skills for no-limit players. By keeping the pot the appropriate size, it becomes much easier to avoid mistakes. Pot control both keeps you out of trouble and gets as much value for your hand as possible.
There are two parts to pot control:
1. Factors to consider
2. Implementation
Factors to Consider
When practicing pot control, there are several fa Read More »
Poker is not a science. It can’t be boiled down to a series of events and reactions. It’s an art. The best players learn to roll with the punches and come back swinging. Things go wrong. Cards land badly. Bankrolls dip desperately low. But, each time, a veteran poker player will consider his odds, keep his cool and sometimes, come back to fight another day. On the other hand, novice poker players make a ton of rookie mistakes. And when they do, the veterans on the table move in for the kill. Below, you’ll find 4 of the most lethal (and common) mistakes that novice players make. Mistake #1: Getting Emotional The pros make it look easy. But, keeping your cool when your luck turns bad is a learned skill. Beginning players often don’t control their emotions. But, on the table, luck turns quickly and small things start to annoy. Great hands get buried. The player next to you distracts and irritates you. But, when you get angry, you lose your focus. And when that happens, the sharks on the table smell the blood and come to feed.
Mistake #2: Bluffing Too Often New poker players make this mistake all the time. And trust me… experienced players Read More »
Here is my definition of a casual player; someone who plays poker, either regularly or semi regularly, mostly as a hobby, and usually has to redeposit once the money is out. They don’t focus on bankroll management or winning, for the most part. Although, winning is nice and a bonus, it’s more about just playing some poker.
But, what happens when you are tired of redepositing. What happens if money gets tight and you know that if you lose this last bit of money in your account, you have now lost your hobby for a little while? With this series of articles, I would like to present and help you to learn a few things that could either:
A) make the money last a little longer or B) Become a winning poker player so that you don’t have to deposit again. Here are the points I would like to make with this series of articles;
1) Bankroll Management on a lesser scale and how to take advantage of poker bonuses and Rakeback (Free Money)
2) Tips on how to become better at poker, without spending most of what would be your playing time on studying
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