Confidence

Confidence is not "over-confidence"! You have to be confident in your reads, in your ability and in whatever tactics you're choosing to use at any give table. This talk of confidence being a bad thing for poker players is crazy.

I'd much rather be the confident aggressor at the table, than the wishy-washy limper.

[Marlow]

Last week I was tired and pushed in for my whole stack with the second nuts. I basically misread the board and got cleaned out. When I was anylyzing it afterwards, I realized that there are literally dozens of considerations that we make when we make a poker decision. We have to be confident in all but only one or two in order to make a good decision (and that's tricky enough!). So if I'm a newbie, I've got to be confident that I can read the board before I can even think about how to calculate odds, etc. So confidence is a complicated cognitive function that has many many variables that we can't and don't even want to be conscious of.

[OrangeKing]

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Your image at the table should be one of confidence no matter what, how else are you going to strike fear in your opponents if you don't have a confident image mixed with great play?

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The vast majority of the time, the LAST thing I want to do is strike fear in my opponents. I'd rather strike laughter and gamboool in them. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Different strokes for different folks.