Improve Your Game

April 20, 2009

What’s the secret to improving your poker ? Practice, Practice and More Practice. Its the only way to truly get good at something. The same goes for poker and although most know this not many have the willpower and self discipline to actually achieve it. How do you think the top players got to where they are? It wasn’t by luck alone. It was by years of hard work, years of practise and years of analysing and studying the game.

 

Although it is slightly easier as an online poker player as poker is more accessible than live poker. Live poker games may only be held once a week in your area or you might take the task of attending all the games you can get to for the practise. Clocking up many hours or travelling not to mention cost. Online you only have to flick a switch and you’re away.

 

All poker rooms, have practise tables with play-money chips. Some suggest you use these tables to practise on. I am not in totally agreement with this and disagree for two reasons.

 

Poker is a game of financial risk. That’s half the lure of it. But if your mistakes aren’t costing you hard earned cash then you will keep on making the same mistakes.

Practise tables have no money value, if you run out you can top up again within seconds. There is no waiting till the next pay day etc. Because of this the play on practise tables is full of ridiculous play. If this kind of play happened on the real tables these players would be bankrupt within hours if not minutes. You won’t learn anything about playing on these tables that is useful and can be carried on to the real tables. For example – Learning how to play a hand aggressively – on a practise table you would be most probably called regardless of what your opponent held as if they lost it doesn’t matter. So you haven’t learnt at all how to play a hand aggressively at all. All you learnt is what the buttons do and confirmed no one else is taking the practise table seriously.

So use the practise tables to familiarise yourself with the table layouts and to learn what does what.

 

 

 

 

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