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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The Overeducated Poker Player

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One of the best things about the modern era of poker is how accepted it is in the general culture. Poker players are no longer relegated to dark, smoke filled back rooms or cheesy saloons. The game has made it to the cultural mainstream and in places like the United States; poker tournaments on television draw more viewers than legitimate sports like Hockey and Soccer. This has all been good news and like any major industry, the explosion of Texas Hold’em has served to support many peripheral business concerns as well. Poker publishing , camps for poker tournament instruction, and Texas Hold’em instruction have all exploded. Once again, this is generally a good thing. The bad part is when a poker player becomes over educated and begins to play Texas Hold’em in a formulaic manner. poker websites, poker flash, free poker, poker for fun, online poker for fun
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The problem with a lot of the Texas Hold’em books and other instruction that is meant to turn somebody from an amateur into poker tournament/cash game titan is that much of it was developed by professionals who were playing against other professionals. This is all fine and dandy if Annie Duke and Phil Ivey are regulars at your home game or you compete against them and their ilk during your poker tournament experiences, but most of us don’t do our playing against competition at that level. A lot of us find ourselves regularly pitted against the Tasmanian devils from the online poker genre or complete amateurs who don’t know when they should fold. In short, if you know Sklansky’s writing inside, outside, upside-down, and backwards and play your poker from that perspective, your best opponent is probably somebody else who whose philosophy is similar to yours. If your Texas Hold’em approach is one of a rigid Sklansky or Brunson disciple, and you find yourself against an opponent whose poker philosophy seems to come from the book “Rules for Radicals” or “Horton Hears a Who”, the chaos of their game may do your bankroll some serious damage. poker websites, poker flash, free poker, poker for fun, online poker for fun
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This is not simply unsupported opinion there is precedent for this. We have a lot of fun at Phil Hellmuth’s expense over here (that is just what comes with the territory of being the “poker brat”), but the truth is that he is a very technically sound player. With that said, once you get the man outside his fish bowl of poker pros who play the game the same way he does, he becomes an extremely weak opponent. His rigid ideological approach to the game does not have the flexibility built into it to adjust to a landscape that has radically changed over the past few years. He is like a technically trained boxer trying to compete in an MMA ring. It just doesn’t work. poker websites, poker flash, free poker, poker for fun, online poker for fun
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Knowledge is power, but there must also be flexibility to any approach. A player who buys to hard into any particular philosophy of the game risks becoming obsolete when the tactics change. The books people learned from two decades ago are hardly as relevant today as they were then and neither are the players who either wrote them or based their entire style on them. A good poker tip to follow is that one should actively educate themselves in the game, but devote yourself to one school of thought, or believe that there are any absolutes in a game with so many X factors is bankroll suicide. poker websites, poker flash, free poker, poker for fun, online poker for fun
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Pokers Ragged Ace in Time and Space

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Todays poker tips are about time, space, and the ragged ace. Usually when we talk about things like time and space, rarely are poker players or Texas holdem part of the conversion. While it is true that guys like Phil Hellmuth are using the sort of poker strategy that probably belongs a decade or so back in time, that is more of an unwillingness to change sort of thing…not actual movement in time and space. While a time machine is not yet available on eBay there are ways that a poker player can move in both time and space when playing Texas Holdem, and this movement will dictate what the best poker strategy for their ragged ace.

There are a lot of poker tips and poker strategies written for how one should play their ragged ace in Texas holdem. What a lot of these poker strategy articles tend not to address is the circumstances under which you and your ragged ace are confronting. This is something poker players should pay attention to. For example, the early morning crowd at a Vegas casino Texas holdem table is going to be a lot different than the crowd that will be showing up in the afternoon and evening. They tend to be older and more risk averse. If you find yourself competing in a pot with a ragged ace under this circumstance, with another ace on the board, and the belief that your opponent has also an ace in his hand as well, you better have a high value kicker in your hand if the hand goes to the river. In this case your opponent is probably a poker player from another generation, and is less likely to go that far unless e believes he has a legit chance to come away with the pot. While any poker tips worth its salt will qualify this with disclaimer that he may be bluffing, older poker players tend to bluff less than those who cut their Texas holdem teeth playing online poker.

Your poker strategy will change if you move in time and play that same hand later in the day. Poker players whose skills are more contemporary will start coming out after the noon hour, and you can loosen up on what you consider to be a competitive kicker at that point against the more aggressive competitors. Poker tips regarding time are less relevant when you move in space (in this case, cyberspace) and find yourself playing internet poker. Online poker players tend to be naturally more aggressive, and the fact that players across a number of time zones can compete at the same time takes away the time element. So while the time aspect of these poker tips is not as applicable, moving in space to the online game can also affect your ragged ace poker strategy. The poker players here are among the most aggressive on the planet. You can greatly relax your kicker standards when playing in most internet poker rooms. I do have include the disclaimer that the poker tips here are generalizations and obviously not absolutes. If there were any absolutes in Texas Holdem it would not be called gambling.