Poker – Maximizing profits when you have winning hands
| A famous sentence by Doyle Brunson :“knowing what to do is only 10% of the game, knowing how to do it is the other 90%”.
A lot of people agree with Doyle, however only a slight percentage of us can do it right. Because of it we choose to focus in what is right do to, seeking the correct move to any situation. Nevertheless as we said before the right move is only 10% of the job. |
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Knowing what’s right to do is quite easy, you just need good mathematic skills and fast thinking, however knowing how to do it demands you to understand your opponents need and to be able to understand how they play. |
For an easy start there are some rules that work most of the times:
- When your opponent is left with less than a third of what he cashed in, he will play more aggressive than usually.
- People intent to see their winning money as a bonus, therefore they will play more carelessly with it, use this to sweep a large pots.
- In order to make a good bluff you need to check a few things:
- Play your bluff only when you are in the dealer position and when you’re sure that there are no more than 2 players in the game.
- Better to bluff when you have money to loss
- Never bluff with more than double of the pot’s sum
There are many more things and tools for you to use against your opponents, most of this tactics relies on psychological theories.
Bluffing is an essential part for the professional poker player. A good player can bluff, a professional player can see the fraud and to inflict great damage to his opponent. Because of its nature bluffing is a very dangerous strategy and like every profitable investment you might loss, if you sense that your bluff has been discovered you better lay down your hand in order to minimize your loss.
That was bluffing for beginners, practice it in low blinds tables, build your self-confidence and then move on to play on big pots, and remember playing the large pots the same way you were playing the small ones- that’s the key for victory.
