Poker: How To Improve Your Game
- Filed under: Casinos
- Date: Feb 1,2010
What will not improve your poker game is holding on to that arrogant attitude and trust in luck. Nor will you gain anything at the table by sticking to the small set of rules you learned from a book and never venture beyond them for fear of your safety. First, you must realize that no matter how many hands you win, there is still room for improvement.. Poker is not just a game of luck, skill or mindreading, a good player has learned the art of introspection. You must be very candid with yourself and define your strength and weaknesses as accurately as possible.
There are also talented players out there who do not project arrogance and do not play by a few rules they learned either from the literature or at the table. Their roadblock to improvement is to rest on their laurels and never grow. No inspiration here, these lazy players rely on rare strokes of brilliance to win a couple of hands..
Neglecting weaknesses and relying on a few strong points is perilous behavior for a poker player. Opponents aren’t all nitwits and can zero in on the fact that you constantly make the same moves, although successfully, and can figure out a way to get around them. They will eventually surprise you with one large move against you. Such players have paid attention to more facets of the game and have improved their skills. They have confidence in the variety of moves they make.
Just as there are no one-handed boxers, you have to sharpen all your skills, even the weak ones. And you can’t make progress on improving your weak points if you do not recognize them. This is a difficult task, but you will not improve without tackling it.
The difficulty of this task likes in two basic concepts, you must understand that the game isn’t really worth playing unless your goal is to win, and you must take on the burden of forming a disciplined habit of consistently doing that which you do not want to do. This won’t work if you don’t understand why you are learning to form this habit. You must engage yourself in the game and blindly following a routine that is incomprehensible to you will not lead to engagement or success.
A good golfer will have visions of where he wants the ball to go and the ideal way to put it there. A good poker player must do the same: envision himself as more than a competent player of the game, feel the rush of excitement that leads to triumphant results, and come to the decision that this is a good thing. If your imagination is too stifled to experience this feeling, you need to admit to yourself that you really don’t get it and explore other opportunities that will successfully engage you. If this vision, however, stirs your passion, work on improving all your skills and the results will amaze you. As an added bonus, achieving the discipline it takes to consistently do things that do not appeal to you and you may even fear, is in itself rewarding.
The author is a successful limit cash game player. He plays poker online and receives Power Rakeback and Victory Poker Rakeback.
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