How To Become Good At Online Poker
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How long will it take before I start winning money from poker? Quick answer: 3 to 24 months for most players I’d say. However, not all players have it in them to become consistent winners in online poker. If you asked this question on a poker forum, you would struggle to get even one reply with an ounce of seriousness in it. You have to become significantly more disciplined and understand that your poker bankroll can only be used at the poker table. I suggest you check out my book Positive Poker. It sounds like you likely have a gambling problem and may need to seek professional help. Tip 10: Develop A Good 3betting Strategy. Whilst 3 betting aggressively is a strategy many players employ, especially in online poker circles, failure to apply optimal 3 betting strategies has certainly led to a lot of spewy poker. Simply attacking opponents who are suspected of opening wide doesn’t cut it in the modern poker world. The skills of a good journeyman poker player enable you to supplement your income, or — better yet — earn your entire livelihood at the game. If you go on to become the very best poker player you can be, that should be more than enough to ensure that you will be a lifelong winning player. The object of the game. With online poker, it is now possible to really have the same excitement and fun as you can have in a real life poker session. Whereas online poker is radically different because you are not actually seeing the individual playing against you, the essential tips to become a successful poker player remain the same.Poker Blog
I recently spoke at a conference in Toronto called Discovery that is put on by the responsible gaming council each year. I was asked some tough questions, but none that I wasn’t prepared for. There was one question that inspired me to write this blog and it came from a man who asked, “I deal with teenage problem gamblers and many of them say they want to be professional poker players. What would you say to those kids?”
I think the most important aspect of dealing with kids like this is to have an honest, coaching conversation with them. One that illustrates the complexities involved in making a living gambling. You don’t want to come from, “It’s not possible,” because obviously it is. There are thousands of professional poker players in the world, but I can’t think of a handful of pros that are successful today that are not treating it like a serious job and working hard both playing and studying the game.
So my intention in this coaching conversation is to really illustrate what it takes to make a living doing this. To have them fully understand what it really looks like, but doing so in such a way where it’s they themselves that are realizing it, rather than me preaching to them that they shouldn’t bother trying.
I start by explaining to them that a professional poker player is a small business owner, in the business of entertaining their customers (players who aren’t as skilled as they are). Most every successful business has a mission statement. Since this is a one man small business let’s call it a vision statement.
The vision statement should be one to two sentences on exactly what you want to see for the company. You are the company of course, so I would encourage you to write this vision statement now. It could look something like this:
My vision in poker is to use it as a vehicle to create abundance in my life. To passionately dedicate myself to learning, improving, and developing my skills, while also being financially responsible.
That’s just one example, you need to write one that speaks to you personally because you will be coming back to this statement often. It is the statement that will guide you during your career. The next step is to get a little more specific and quantify what abundance looks like for you. A concrete yearly income you are hoping to achieve. For this example, let’s use $100,000 as the goal.
So now we have the vision statement and the goal, next up is the HOW. The real plan. Drawing from our vision statement, we need to make sure that our plan is financially responsible and that we are continuing to develop our skills away from the table. To hit the $100,000 a year mark, it also requires that you are able to gauge how much money you can expect to make hourly in the game you are playing.
For example, let’s say your bankroll and skill level have you playing $2-$5 no limit hold’em at Bellagio. It’s important to know how much that game is worth to you. The best place to start would be to ask around and see what the best player in that game can expect to make, then deduct about 30% from that total. Yes, you may become the best player in that game, but until you have proven you can be, lets assume you are still in the learning phase and shouldn’t expect to jump out of the gate and be the best player at the table.
Based on what I’ve heard, the best players in that game may make as much as $30 an hour. Deduct 30% from that, if all goes well you can target $21 an hour. To make the math easier, let’s just make it $20 flat per hour. Since our goal is to make $100,000 a year, now we can have a rough idea of how many hours we actually need to spend at the table playing poker. That comes to 5000 hours a year playing. If we break down that further, that comes to 417 hours a month, which breaks down to over 100 hours a week! This is before we even add all of the study hours required to be in line with our vision statement. For ever 10 hours of play, you should add at least two hours of study time. Add on another 1000 hours a year of study, which boils down to 14 hours a week.
So now we have you playing 105 hours a week, and studying around 14 hours a week for a total close to 120 hours in a week. Do you know how many hours are in a week? 168. If you plan on sleeping 8 hours a night, that’s another 56 hours a week. With work/study at 120 and sleep at 56, that totals 176 hours a week.
Uh oh, Houston we have a problem! While your vision statement was quite clear as was your goal, your plan just isn’t feasible. It’s just not humanly possible unless you plan on skipping out on sleep entirely and having absolutely no social life whatsoever! No matter how good you play, your plan is destined to fail and it will.
So the most obvious thing to adjust is your expectations on your yearly income. Maybe lowering it from $100,000 down to $50,000 a year. To save time, let’s assume you can make a plan work where you make $50,000 a year working very hard. Will this allow you to create abundance in your life? Maybe, maybe not. That depends on your monthly nut, meaning how much your expenses cost you monthly. We are also going to assume you are a law abiding citizen who pays their income tax, so right off the bat let’s whack of 30% of that $50,000 a year. That leaves you with $35,000 to spend over a 12 month period, or about $2900 a month.
You want a car, you will have rent to pay, and I assume you also may want to eat food at some point. Maybe even have a telephone and wifi in your apartment. So let’s say you find an apartment for $1200 a month, spend another $300 on your car and gas, and then $1000 a month for food. That’s $2500 total, leaving you $400 a month to cover EVERYTHING else! Not to mention the fact that you need to maintain a bankroll big enough to deal with the inevitable swings. Heaven forbid you ever have to fix your car or get a speeding ticket!
If you aren’t playing with a bankroll big enough to play the games you want and live the lifestyle that you want, then what is your plan if you run out of funds? How will you stay in action? Borrowing from friends is one option, but how will you ever build a bankroll big enough to pay them back? At best, you have an extra $400 a month. If you borrowed $5000 it would take two years of everything going perfectly for you to pay them back. How many people do you know that will loan you $5000 on the hope of being paid back in two years if all goes well? So you will get staked you say? Ok, so now someone is putting up the money for you to play in the $2-$5 game and you get to keep 50% of your winnings. Now you will also have to slash your monthly earnings to $1450 a month while your living expenses are at $2500. You are still underwater. Well what if I get staked to play higher limits? OK, so you are going to find a backer to put you in $5-$10 games where you have no experience, there are tougher players, and your win rate isn’t guaranteed to be any higher than the $2-$5? Good luck with that.
This is all painting a dark picture by design. It is the reality that most of you who are hoping to become professional poker players face. One that can’t be ignored. Is it possible that you have the work ethic, the modest monthly nut, the skill set, the emotional stability, the drive, the will, the bankroll, etc. Sure, but don’t be fooled. There are maybe 2%-5% of people that can make this lifestyle work. Less than 5% of ball players in the minor leagues will ever make the big leagues. Even less high school football players putting on weight in the hopes of an NFL career will make it. There are many careers where the odds are heavily stacked against you. There are heroes, those special people who have “it” and find a way to make it, but most will fail. This holds true in poker as well.
My intention wasn’t to discourage you from chasing your dreams, whatever they may be. My intention was to illustrate to you that it will require HARD WORK. It will not be as easy as it looks on TV. Are you willing to put in all that hard work, all the while knowing that even if you do, it still may not be enough?on
You’re 23 years old, and you’ve been playing poker for small stakes since you were in your teens. You’ve played home games with your dad, you’ve played with your buddies at the lake house in the summer, and you’ve gotten in a few hours at the local casino.
You love playing poker, but you don’t take it too seriously.
But for some reason, the last time you played, you thought—maybe I could get good at this. Maybe I could play in some big tournaments—maybe even the World Series of Poker.
If that describes you, this advice on how to become a better poker player is aimed at you:1- Understand How Hard It Is to Make a Living Playing Poker
It’s easy to start having visions of sugar plums dancing in your head when you start thinking about making a living as a poker player. After all, you’re winning on a regular basis now, right?
Think again.
Poker, especially Texas holdem, is not just a game of skill. It’s not chess.
It’s also a game of chance.
In the long run, yeah, the most skilled players win money.
But in the short run, some players just get luck—even if they’re lousy.
I’m not saying you’re a lousy player. You might be pretty good.
But I do know that most beginning poker players overestimate their skill level. They read a book or 2, play a few hands online, and soon they start thinking they’re the next Daniel Negreanu or Doyle Brunson.
To be a pro player, you not only need to be a long-term winner, but you need to be profitable enough to also pay your bills. This means lots of study and lots of practice. It also means lots of record-keeping.
I read somewhere that at least one online poker room tracked how many of its players showed a profit over a 12-month period.
What percentage would you think to show a net profit after 12 months of play?
My guess would have been 20%.
I’d have been dead-wrong, too.
And of those players, some of them were surely only barely on the profitable side. You can’t be “barely profitable” and make a living at poker.
Of course, earning a living playing poker isn’t the end-all, be-all goal for becoming a better poker player.
Your goals are as individual as you are. Maybe you just want to improve your chances of coming home a winner after a weekend at the cardroom. Maybe you just want a shot at the big money in the World Series of Poker.
Heck, maybe you just want to slow down the bleeding.
No matter what your goal, improving your skill level will help you achieve it. The rest of this post offers specific advice for how to do just that.2- Read at Least One Good Poker Book to Start With
You’re probably not as well-educated about poker as you think. If you’ve never read a single book on poker, you should start with 2 books:
The first is The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky. It covers most of the fundamentals of strategy that everyone should understand—outs, pot odds, position, bluffing, tightness, and aggression. No matter what game you specialize in, this should be on your nightstand.
Then you should read a book about whatever specific kind of poker you play the most. Limit holdem is a different game than no limit holdem. Tournament holdem is different from ring game holdem. Your choice of book should account for that.
If you play small stakes, limit holdem, you should read Small Stakes Holdem by Ed Miller. This is a great starting point for a poker hobby, too—if you don’t know what game you want to specialize in, this might be a good place to start.
If you play limit holdem for higher stakes, Holdem Poker for Advanced Players, by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth is a good place to start.
If you specialize in no limit holdem, the Doyle Brunson section on no limit in Super/System is excellent. Ed Miller also has a book about no limit holdem worth your time. It’s called No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice.
If you specialize in tournaments, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players is a must-read. Harrington on Holdem is also essential reading.
You can find good poker books from Two Plus Two Publishing on almost any variety of poker game, but more obscure games might require some searching for a different publisher with more diverse titles.3- Start Paying More Attention at the Tables
One of the biggest leaks in my game, when I got started, was not paying enough attention at the table. In fact, if I weren’t involved in a hand, I just watched television or chatted with the other players.
Truth be told, that’s still a big leak in my game.One of the tricks to winning at poker is finding and exploiting as many small edges as much as you can.
If you can pick up ANYTHING at all about your opponents’ tendencies, it can help you get a few more percentage points of expected value on a future hand.
At the very least, you should know which players at the table are bluffers, which ones are loose, which players are tight, and which players are aggressive. Casino in duluth mn. Then behave accordingly.
I was in a game in Vegas with a player from Dallas who was nicknamed Rock. (I think his real name was “Raq” or something like that.) At any rate, I knew he was a tight-aggressive player.
We were playing no limit in Vegas, and he fired off a raise from early position. I have AK offsuit, so I re-raised. When it got back to him, he went all-in.
I should have folded. I knew him well enough to know that he had at least a pair of kings in the hole.
I called, though, and of course, he had pocket aces and took down the pot at the showdown.
That’s not an example of paying attention versus not paying attention, but it’s a good example of how understanding the other players’ tendencies should inform your playing decisions. If you don’t pay attention, you won’t know what the other players’ tendencies are.4- Tighten Up Your Game and Become More Aggressive
Any beginner article about poker strategy is going to explain the difference between tight and loose players. It will also explain the difference between passivity and aggression.
Your goal is to become a tight aggressive player.
If you’re still new to the game, you’re probably not playing tight enough or aggressive enough.
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Luckily, those tendencies are easy to fix:
Just fold more often.
When you do play in a hand, bet or raise. If you never called a bet again—just raised—you’d probably still be able to profit as a poker player.
Most new poker players learn to fold early in the hand really fast.
It takes them longer to learn how to fold on the later rounds. Once they get involved in a pot, they like to see it through to the end.5- Change Your Mindset
If you want to improve your poker game, you probably need to change your mindset. Many beginner poker players are gamblers. They want to get in there and win pots.
That’s the wrong mindset if you want to win.
If you want to improve your poker game, change your mindset to that of someone who’s happy to wait patiently for profitable opportunities.
Don’t just exercise this new mindset at the poker table, either. Think about this mindset and commitment the next time you want to place a single-number bet at the roulette table, or the next time you want to bet the hard eight in craps.
You also need to stop worrying about whether you win or lose money on a single, specific hand. Bad beats are an inevitable part of the game. If they weren’t, you wouldn’t have any profitable opportunities.
You make your money in poker from other players’ mistakes. When they make a bad decision and win money, the game has just given them positive reinforcement for their mistakes. In the long run, this will make you more profitable.6- Start Hosting a Game at Your House
Few things are more enjoyable in life than hosting a home poker game. If you’re committed to being the best player in your home game, you can see profits from that which will be far superior to what you’ll see at the casino.
Players are more likely to play drunk at your home game. There’s no rake to cut into your potential profits. People are more relaxed and willing to play dumb games that are easier for you to adjust to.How To Get Good At Online Poker
If you’re not sure how to host your own home poker game, you can find plenty of reasonably comprehensive guides to doing so on the web. You can also read Poker Night by John Vorhaus, which is one of the more entertaining guides to home poker available.
If you’re serious about being profitable, don’t waste a fortune on snacks and drinks. But spend enough money on snacks and drinks that people enjoy your game and are willing to come back for more action next week.
Just like the car salesman who wants to sell you 10 cars over the next 20 years, you want to win $20 or $50 from your opponents 50 weeks out of the year—not $100 or $200 once a year.
Part of keeping those players coming back is playing the part of good host.7- Start Writing About the Game
To write clearly about a subject, you first need to be able to think clearly about a subject. This is as true of poker as it is of any other endeavor. This doesn’t mean you need to write a book, though.
Writing about poker
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How long will it take before I start winning money from poker? Quick answer: 3 to 24 months for most players I’d say. However, not all players have it in them to become consistent winners in online poker. If you asked this question on a poker forum, you would struggle to get even one reply with an ounce of seriousness in it. You have to become significantly more disciplined and understand that your poker bankroll can only be used at the poker table. I suggest you check out my book Positive Poker. It sounds like you likely have a gambling problem and may need to seek professional help. Tip 10: Develop A Good 3betting Strategy. Whilst 3 betting aggressively is a strategy many players employ, especially in online poker circles, failure to apply optimal 3 betting strategies has certainly led to a lot of spewy poker. Simply attacking opponents who are suspected of opening wide doesn’t cut it in the modern poker world. The skills of a good journeyman poker player enable you to supplement your income, or — better yet — earn your entire livelihood at the game. If you go on to become the very best poker player you can be, that should be more than enough to ensure that you will be a lifelong winning player. The object of the game. With online poker, it is now possible to really have the same excitement and fun as you can have in a real life poker session. Whereas online poker is radically different because you are not actually seeing the individual playing against you, the essential tips to become a successful poker player remain the same.Poker Blog
I recently spoke at a conference in Toronto called Discovery that is put on by the responsible gaming council each year. I was asked some tough questions, but none that I wasn’t prepared for. There was one question that inspired me to write this blog and it came from a man who asked, “I deal with teenage problem gamblers and many of them say they want to be professional poker players. What would you say to those kids?”
I think the most important aspect of dealing with kids like this is to have an honest, coaching conversation with them. One that illustrates the complexities involved in making a living gambling. You don’t want to come from, “It’s not possible,” because obviously it is. There are thousands of professional poker players in the world, but I can’t think of a handful of pros that are successful today that are not treating it like a serious job and working hard both playing and studying the game.
So my intention in this coaching conversation is to really illustrate what it takes to make a living doing this. To have them fully understand what it really looks like, but doing so in such a way where it’s they themselves that are realizing it, rather than me preaching to them that they shouldn’t bother trying.
I start by explaining to them that a professional poker player is a small business owner, in the business of entertaining their customers (players who aren’t as skilled as they are). Most every successful business has a mission statement. Since this is a one man small business let’s call it a vision statement.
The vision statement should be one to two sentences on exactly what you want to see for the company. You are the company of course, so I would encourage you to write this vision statement now. It could look something like this:
My vision in poker is to use it as a vehicle to create abundance in my life. To passionately dedicate myself to learning, improving, and developing my skills, while also being financially responsible.
That’s just one example, you need to write one that speaks to you personally because you will be coming back to this statement often. It is the statement that will guide you during your career. The next step is to get a little more specific and quantify what abundance looks like for you. A concrete yearly income you are hoping to achieve. For this example, let’s use $100,000 as the goal.
So now we have the vision statement and the goal, next up is the HOW. The real plan. Drawing from our vision statement, we need to make sure that our plan is financially responsible and that we are continuing to develop our skills away from the table. To hit the $100,000 a year mark, it also requires that you are able to gauge how much money you can expect to make hourly in the game you are playing.
For example, let’s say your bankroll and skill level have you playing $2-$5 no limit hold’em at Bellagio. It’s important to know how much that game is worth to you. The best place to start would be to ask around and see what the best player in that game can expect to make, then deduct about 30% from that total. Yes, you may become the best player in that game, but until you have proven you can be, lets assume you are still in the learning phase and shouldn’t expect to jump out of the gate and be the best player at the table.
Based on what I’ve heard, the best players in that game may make as much as $30 an hour. Deduct 30% from that, if all goes well you can target $21 an hour. To make the math easier, let’s just make it $20 flat per hour. Since our goal is to make $100,000 a year, now we can have a rough idea of how many hours we actually need to spend at the table playing poker. That comes to 5000 hours a year playing. If we break down that further, that comes to 417 hours a month, which breaks down to over 100 hours a week! This is before we even add all of the study hours required to be in line with our vision statement. For ever 10 hours of play, you should add at least two hours of study time. Add on another 1000 hours a year of study, which boils down to 14 hours a week.
So now we have you playing 105 hours a week, and studying around 14 hours a week for a total close to 120 hours in a week. Do you know how many hours are in a week? 168. If you plan on sleeping 8 hours a night, that’s another 56 hours a week. With work/study at 120 and sleep at 56, that totals 176 hours a week.
Uh oh, Houston we have a problem! While your vision statement was quite clear as was your goal, your plan just isn’t feasible. It’s just not humanly possible unless you plan on skipping out on sleep entirely and having absolutely no social life whatsoever! No matter how good you play, your plan is destined to fail and it will.
So the most obvious thing to adjust is your expectations on your yearly income. Maybe lowering it from $100,000 down to $50,000 a year. To save time, let’s assume you can make a plan work where you make $50,000 a year working very hard. Will this allow you to create abundance in your life? Maybe, maybe not. That depends on your monthly nut, meaning how much your expenses cost you monthly. We are also going to assume you are a law abiding citizen who pays their income tax, so right off the bat let’s whack of 30% of that $50,000 a year. That leaves you with $35,000 to spend over a 12 month period, or about $2900 a month.
You want a car, you will have rent to pay, and I assume you also may want to eat food at some point. Maybe even have a telephone and wifi in your apartment. So let’s say you find an apartment for $1200 a month, spend another $300 on your car and gas, and then $1000 a month for food. That’s $2500 total, leaving you $400 a month to cover EVERYTHING else! Not to mention the fact that you need to maintain a bankroll big enough to deal with the inevitable swings. Heaven forbid you ever have to fix your car or get a speeding ticket!
If you aren’t playing with a bankroll big enough to play the games you want and live the lifestyle that you want, then what is your plan if you run out of funds? How will you stay in action? Borrowing from friends is one option, but how will you ever build a bankroll big enough to pay them back? At best, you have an extra $400 a month. If you borrowed $5000 it would take two years of everything going perfectly for you to pay them back. How many people do you know that will loan you $5000 on the hope of being paid back in two years if all goes well? So you will get staked you say? Ok, so now someone is putting up the money for you to play in the $2-$5 game and you get to keep 50% of your winnings. Now you will also have to slash your monthly earnings to $1450 a month while your living expenses are at $2500. You are still underwater. Well what if I get staked to play higher limits? OK, so you are going to find a backer to put you in $5-$10 games where you have no experience, there are tougher players, and your win rate isn’t guaranteed to be any higher than the $2-$5? Good luck with that.
This is all painting a dark picture by design. It is the reality that most of you who are hoping to become professional poker players face. One that can’t be ignored. Is it possible that you have the work ethic, the modest monthly nut, the skill set, the emotional stability, the drive, the will, the bankroll, etc. Sure, but don’t be fooled. There are maybe 2%-5% of people that can make this lifestyle work. Less than 5% of ball players in the minor leagues will ever make the big leagues. Even less high school football players putting on weight in the hopes of an NFL career will make it. There are many careers where the odds are heavily stacked against you. There are heroes, those special people who have “it” and find a way to make it, but most will fail. This holds true in poker as well.
My intention wasn’t to discourage you from chasing your dreams, whatever they may be. My intention was to illustrate to you that it will require HARD WORK. It will not be as easy as it looks on TV. Are you willing to put in all that hard work, all the while knowing that even if you do, it still may not be enough?on
You’re 23 years old, and you’ve been playing poker for small stakes since you were in your teens. You’ve played home games with your dad, you’ve played with your buddies at the lake house in the summer, and you’ve gotten in a few hours at the local casino.
You love playing poker, but you don’t take it too seriously.
But for some reason, the last time you played, you thought—maybe I could get good at this. Maybe I could play in some big tournaments—maybe even the World Series of Poker.
If that describes you, this advice on how to become a better poker player is aimed at you:1- Understand How Hard It Is to Make a Living Playing Poker
It’s easy to start having visions of sugar plums dancing in your head when you start thinking about making a living as a poker player. After all, you’re winning on a regular basis now, right?
Think again.
Poker, especially Texas holdem, is not just a game of skill. It’s not chess.
It’s also a game of chance.
In the long run, yeah, the most skilled players win money.
But in the short run, some players just get luck—even if they’re lousy.
I’m not saying you’re a lousy player. You might be pretty good.
But I do know that most beginning poker players overestimate their skill level. They read a book or 2, play a few hands online, and soon they start thinking they’re the next Daniel Negreanu or Doyle Brunson.
To be a pro player, you not only need to be a long-term winner, but you need to be profitable enough to also pay your bills. This means lots of study and lots of practice. It also means lots of record-keeping.
I read somewhere that at least one online poker room tracked how many of its players showed a profit over a 12-month period.
What percentage would you think to show a net profit after 12 months of play?
My guess would have been 20%.
I’d have been dead-wrong, too.
And of those players, some of them were surely only barely on the profitable side. You can’t be “barely profitable” and make a living at poker.
Of course, earning a living playing poker isn’t the end-all, be-all goal for becoming a better poker player.
Your goals are as individual as you are. Maybe you just want to improve your chances of coming home a winner after a weekend at the cardroom. Maybe you just want a shot at the big money in the World Series of Poker.
Heck, maybe you just want to slow down the bleeding.
No matter what your goal, improving your skill level will help you achieve it. The rest of this post offers specific advice for how to do just that.2- Read at Least One Good Poker Book to Start With
You’re probably not as well-educated about poker as you think. If you’ve never read a single book on poker, you should start with 2 books:
The first is The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky. It covers most of the fundamentals of strategy that everyone should understand—outs, pot odds, position, bluffing, tightness, and aggression. No matter what game you specialize in, this should be on your nightstand.
Then you should read a book about whatever specific kind of poker you play the most. Limit holdem is a different game than no limit holdem. Tournament holdem is different from ring game holdem. Your choice of book should account for that.
If you play small stakes, limit holdem, you should read Small Stakes Holdem by Ed Miller. This is a great starting point for a poker hobby, too—if you don’t know what game you want to specialize in, this might be a good place to start.
If you play limit holdem for higher stakes, Holdem Poker for Advanced Players, by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth is a good place to start.
If you specialize in no limit holdem, the Doyle Brunson section on no limit in Super/System is excellent. Ed Miller also has a book about no limit holdem worth your time. It’s called No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice.
If you specialize in tournaments, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players is a must-read. Harrington on Holdem is also essential reading.
You can find good poker books from Two Plus Two Publishing on almost any variety of poker game, but more obscure games might require some searching for a different publisher with more diverse titles.3- Start Paying More Attention at the Tables
One of the biggest leaks in my game, when I got started, was not paying enough attention at the table. In fact, if I weren’t involved in a hand, I just watched television or chatted with the other players.
Truth be told, that’s still a big leak in my game.One of the tricks to winning at poker is finding and exploiting as many small edges as much as you can.
If you can pick up ANYTHING at all about your opponents’ tendencies, it can help you get a few more percentage points of expected value on a future hand.
At the very least, you should know which players at the table are bluffers, which ones are loose, which players are tight, and which players are aggressive. Casino in duluth mn. Then behave accordingly.
I was in a game in Vegas with a player from Dallas who was nicknamed Rock. (I think his real name was “Raq” or something like that.) At any rate, I knew he was a tight-aggressive player.
We were playing no limit in Vegas, and he fired off a raise from early position. I have AK offsuit, so I re-raised. When it got back to him, he went all-in.
I should have folded. I knew him well enough to know that he had at least a pair of kings in the hole.
I called, though, and of course, he had pocket aces and took down the pot at the showdown.
That’s not an example of paying attention versus not paying attention, but it’s a good example of how understanding the other players’ tendencies should inform your playing decisions. If you don’t pay attention, you won’t know what the other players’ tendencies are.4- Tighten Up Your Game and Become More Aggressive
Any beginner article about poker strategy is going to explain the difference between tight and loose players. It will also explain the difference between passivity and aggression.
Your goal is to become a tight aggressive player.
If you’re still new to the game, you’re probably not playing tight enough or aggressive enough.
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Luckily, those tendencies are easy to fix:
Just fold more often.
When you do play in a hand, bet or raise. If you never called a bet again—just raised—you’d probably still be able to profit as a poker player.
Most new poker players learn to fold early in the hand really fast.
It takes them longer to learn how to fold on the later rounds. Once they get involved in a pot, they like to see it through to the end.5- Change Your Mindset
If you want to improve your poker game, you probably need to change your mindset. Many beginner poker players are gamblers. They want to get in there and win pots.
That’s the wrong mindset if you want to win.
If you want to improve your poker game, change your mindset to that of someone who’s happy to wait patiently for profitable opportunities.
Don’t just exercise this new mindset at the poker table, either. Think about this mindset and commitment the next time you want to place a single-number bet at the roulette table, or the next time you want to bet the hard eight in craps.
You also need to stop worrying about whether you win or lose money on a single, specific hand. Bad beats are an inevitable part of the game. If they weren’t, you wouldn’t have any profitable opportunities.
You make your money in poker from other players’ mistakes. When they make a bad decision and win money, the game has just given them positive reinforcement for their mistakes. In the long run, this will make you more profitable.6- Start Hosting a Game at Your House
Few things are more enjoyable in life than hosting a home poker game. If you’re committed to being the best player in your home game, you can see profits from that which will be far superior to what you’ll see at the casino.
Players are more likely to play drunk at your home game. There’s no rake to cut into your potential profits. People are more relaxed and willing to play dumb games that are easier for you to adjust to.How To Get Good At Online Poker
If you’re not sure how to host your own home poker game, you can find plenty of reasonably comprehensive guides to doing so on the web. You can also read Poker Night by John Vorhaus, which is one of the more entertaining guides to home poker available.
If you’re serious about being profitable, don’t waste a fortune on snacks and drinks. But spend enough money on snacks and drinks that people enjoy your game and are willing to come back for more action next week.
Just like the car salesman who wants to sell you 10 cars over the next 20 years, you want to win $20 or $50 from your opponents 50 weeks out of the year—not $100 or $200 once a year.
Part of keeping those players coming back is playing the part of good host.7- Start Writing About the Game
To write clearly about a subject, you first need to be able to think clearly about a subject. This is as true of poker as it is of any other endeavor. This doesn’t mean you need to write a book, though.
Writing about poker
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