Here are ten poker tips to keep in mind for your upcoming poker sessions:
1. Don’t play while tired, sick, upset, or distracted. Poker requires smooth cognitive functioning to perform well. If you’re not feeling calm and focused you’re better off not playing.
2. Ask for advice. The most explosive growth in learning any poker player can go through comes from talking strategy with other poker players. Try to maintain a loosely-organized poker strategy discussion group to call upon when faced with a tricky situation.
3. Listen to the little voice in your head. Trust your instincts at the poker table. They exist for a reason.
4. Formulate a cashout strategy. Success is easier to attain when you have goals in mind. Decide upon a winnings checkpoint and reward yourself with a purchase when you grow your bankroll to the goal.
5. Pay attention. It can be tempting when playing poker to have a web browser open or be fidgeting with your mobile phone, but directing one’s focus in this manner can lead to missing out on key pieces of information unfolding in the poker game(s) before you.
6. Study one hour of poker for every eight hours you play. Starting off a session by watching thirty minutes of free poker videos can be a great way to get your mind in the right groove.
7. Do something that surprises yourself once in a while. If your play has gotten too predictable to yourself, your opponents may feel the same way. Keep thinking creatively.
8. Establish a crazy table image. Early in tournaments before splashing around chips becomes too costly, establishing a reckless table image can be a great way to help get paid off during subsequent levels.
9. Be fastidious about game selection. Part of the work of being a poker player is finding good games to sit in. For online poker, try some smaller sites where the competition is weaker. In live games, be prepared to get up and leave if you don’t like what you see. There will always be another game.
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Pokertox: Botox for Poker Players
Friday, November 23rd, 2012The Huffington Post recently featured an article on botox for poker players called “Pokertox” introduced by Dr. Jack Berdy.
Berdy believes that poker players are the next big market for botox. His process involves consulting with poker players to determine what they believe are their major “facial” tells. Berdy is hoping to create a niche market of poker pros who come to him for botox refills every three to four months.
Berdy should have consulted with some poker players before launching these services so someone could have told him the idea is stupid as hell. “So far, no one has signed up for the service,” says the Huffington Post article. What a shock! Dr. Berdy should expect that market trend to continue indefinitely.
There have been plenty of bad poker ideas over the years, but Pokertox might be the worst one we’ve heard yet.
Click here for the full story from Huffington Post.
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