Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Rule 38: Since poker is a game of positioning oneself to win (but with no guarantee of winning), there are going to be times when doing exactly

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Since poker is a game of positioning oneself to win (but with no guarantee of winning), there are going to be times when doing exactly ...

Rule 37: It's a mistake to use experience alone to determine what good poker play is.

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Long-time experience can be deceptive. Our memory can be selective. It can mislead us, overemphasizing some things that occurred and undere...

Rule 36: One of the main ways we improve in the game of poker is by getting certain lessons pounded into our heads.

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Books, seminars, and other kinds of advice are all well and good, but nothing instructs us in certain lessons like experience. Lessons lear...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

Free rules for poker 35: If you're doing a lot of folding, won't this look odd to the other players?

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You might sometimes get the feeling that all this folding you're doing looks pretty obvious to the other players. You can almost feel t...

Free rules for poker 34: In the best players there is a streak of simple common sense.

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If we put things in these terms, the game seems pretty simple. Strategies are somewhat different than this at higher, more sophisticated ...

Free rules for poker 33: Don't go on the offense against a large field of players with a weak hand.

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Here's a poker secret: When you don't have good cards, someone else usually does. Don't go into the aggressive/offense mode in a...
Monday, 3 March 2008

Free rules for poker 32: You may as well bet if you intend to call.

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It is a generally accepted idea that if your hand is good enough to call a bet with, then you are better off betting. (And this is a situati...