PRLog (Press Release) –
May 03, 2009 – Patience the key in playing poker
Is not it encouraging to see the neighbors corner boast of having amassed a hundred dollars in two days when you are happy to bet cents? And if you try it?
Here is a list of tips to explain or remind you, the interest to be patient when we want to win at poker.
What is patience?
In history, patience has always helped make the difference between winners and losers at the major battles. It may refer to the taking of Troy by the Greeks, after a siege of ten years, finally had the idea of a ruse to take the city: they built a giant wooden horse trough, which hid a group of Soldiers led by Ulysses. They managed to convince the Trojans to accept the offering. The Greeks came out of the horse and then opened the doors, allowing the rest of the army to enter and loot the town.
Patience is the ability for someone to face a master waiting to remain calm in a situation of tension or facing difficulties, or perseverance. In poker, it reflected on the ability to wait patiently to have good hands, not to play these same hands too quickly or to keep calm and serious even after a bad-beat. Efforts will therefore analyze how patience poker is beneficial in the longer term, how to manage the frustration that can result, the illustration of slow play by example with great players. Followed by the parties explaining why patience is an attribute of victory, before opening on the need to vary his game
The patience and time
Take care to distinguish patience in the short term, medium term and long term. Patience in the short term is how the players must show during any part of poker.
Patience medium term to optimize its gains. Patience in the long term you will improve your game and win more. Be patient poker in the short term, be able to expect good hands that you will win, despite your mood and your stack. By playing the best hands, you will increase the more your chances of winning the coup, and thus maximizing the gains you earn enough to last as long as possible.
Patrick Bruel for its part, believes that good management cycles chance is important. You should know the storm pass when we do get the wrong hands, in other words, be patient. Be patient poker in the medium term, manage its capital. It is the ability to involve one-tenth or one twentieth of the money earned in the previous parts, rather than put everything at stake in each party and risk losing everything on a bad-beat.
Be patient in the long term, be honest with yourself on your current level. This means that you gradually in difficulty levels of poker. Playing poker without challenge to learn and master the basics, with poker cents or very small amounts for the first confrontation Thursday with money, poker with more money to gradually achieve a goal (to have some sum, you buy a car, participate in the WSOP, …). Only when the foundation strictly controlled that you can color your game A beginner should not bluff if not mastered the basics. Do not make art as you do not draw!
On frustration
Being patient can play good hands, and thus maximize chances of victory. However, patience regularly brings its share of frustration. It can only be frustrated at having slept with 7 and 2 when it receives a full or three of a kind on the flop with these cards, or to touch a flush with Q and 4. Everything is a question of probabilities. While that time that hand you would win, but remember, every time you would lose it if you do not spend. If you play this hand, you were lucky, thats all.
Similarly, one can only be frustrated with losing a pair of aces in hand when another key three of a kind on the river. But again, everything is a matter of luck. Initially, you had better chance of winning, and at the end you lost. This does not happen again each time. It can still be frustrated to see a young beginner winning a very large sum in a tournament by playing all hands. Win there the next tournament? Surely not.
So when is patience or frustration occuring because of chance. Playing poker patiently avoids the more possible to be subjected to the luck factor, but it does not erase. If you take a bad-beat or plague have not played a bad hand, tell yourself that in the long term, your approach that will allow you to collect the most money. If you are on-tilt, it is better to pause and to re concentrate to return to the table and poker play its patient rather than stay and play any hand.
Patience and great players
Be patient, it is also not make the mistake of many beginners, ie reveal his game too quickly, but rather try to break the other in a trap. We call it slow play literally play slowly. This technique was used during the finals of the WSOP 88, which Chan opposed to Seidel. The flop comes Qs 10d 8h, Chan received his fifth slew Seidel while he feels the strongest with his top pair. Chan will pick slow play. When the turn (2s) and the river (6d) come check it. Thinking that Chan missed his fifth, Seidel turns rug
