what's your poker wisdom?

[DanTheCardMan]

(I'm a relative newbie, so take this FWIW)

Let the size of the pot guide your decision. The bigger the pot the better it is to go for it and see what happens.

Almost always bet your draws, especially when they're good and you have additional outs.

Let the cards come to you; don't go chasing.

Get your chips to the middle as fast as possible when you know you have the best of it.

[Trix]

What doesn´t kill me, makes me stronger.

Something like that.

[DocStyle]

For tourney play - the Tholian Defense. Let's you and him fight!

Why get in the middle of people playing like it's showdown mode with marginal hands? I see it all the time, and they all get caught in the spooky jar eventually. I'll watch and finish in the money, thanks [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[nykenny]

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If you aren't sure...
- preflop whether to fold or call fold
- preflop whether to call or raise raise
- on the flop whether to bet or check-raise check-raise
- ditto for turn
- on the river whether to fold or call call
- on the river whether to check or bet bet

My problem is this:
Saying is one thing, doing another.


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there is wisdom in your wisdom! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[nykenny]

[blackaces13]

I usually follow the Scotty Nygen philosophy of, "Keep dem Michelob coming baby."

Also, sometimes I like to raise out of the SB in a 2/4 game with 83o. Then I turn to the BB and say, "You can't call dat... too much fah you." Then I stand up and tell the railbirds, "This gonna be the best poker move I ever make."
Then I start talking about playing blackjack.

Works everytime.

[chesspain]

Unless I held the near-nuts, I used to be afraid to value bet the river, given my tendency to look for monsters and the difficulties I had folding to a raise. Now, however, against average or unknown opponents heads up, I will almost always bet the river if I believe I have the better hand, and I will almost always call if I am raised . It's amazing how liberating this has been. And I'm sure that this has been a +EV change for me in comparison to my former river-weak-tightie self.

[Monty Cantsin]

I haven't been playing long enough to develop any wisdom. But I did come up with something potentially useful the other day. I found it difficult to escape results-bound thinking during a session. I would always think "am I ahead? am I behind?". I needed a new metric to measure my play. So I made a little chart and started to keep track of my mistakes. It looks like this:

Every time I'm pretty sure I've done something wrong, I add a tick to the chart. Not based on the outcome of the hand, but based on that twinge of micro-guilt that comes a few moments (or sometimes immediately) after making a fairly obvious blunder.

Now my goal for a session is to score zero on the mistake chart. And unlike win rates, these results are immediately relevant - no waiting for 10,000 hands before you can draw conclusions!

In addition to giving me a structure for staying focussed on evaluating my play, it also lets me see what kind of mistakes I'm making. In my case, I was a little surprised to see that I was making more call/bet/raise mistakes than fold/missed bet mistakes. I think I'm too afraid of not being aggressive enough, which makes me your typical bully-who's-really-a-coward. How's that for wisdom? WE ALL LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON!

/mc

[astroglide]

brilliant idea, seriously. i just printed it.

[WillMagic]

A good limit hold'em player...

doesn't remember the last time he was the first player to call two bets cold...

and doesn't remember the last time he posted a bad beat on an internet forum.

Will