Cash Poker: Goal Setting to Achieve Long Term Success
Your ultimate and continuous goal when playing any form of poker is to be a successful, winning poker player over a large sample of hands or tournaments. In a cash game, the best way to achieve this goal is to focus on 3 specific parts of the game. We must remember that profitability in a single session isn’t always guaranteed, and neither is long term success. To become a profitable player overall, you must have specific hand, session, and off-table orientated goals that you must be mindful of when playing.
There are three main parts of the game when playing cash to consider that will help you achieve the ultimate poker goal. Each of these sections will overlap and influence one and other. When playing cash poker, we should be mindful of different poker aspects in the following situations: in a specific hand, in the overall session, and then how to act off of the table to achieve long term success.
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Every poker player has experienced raising their hands confidently thinking they are on for the win but then there is nothing found on the flop. If the hand does not seem to look as great as it was before and a raise in the pot is at stake, what will you do? You cannot just end up hoping that your opponents flops have nothing in them too so that you get the pot. But just the same, you cannot just give up once you are called on the flop and not able to improve after the turn.
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Tired of losing in poker games? Find out how you can stop this streak of bad luck and start winning more chips!
Most poker games players struggle to turn a profit at the table on a regular basis. If you find yourself somewhere around breaking even at the poker tables, just know that you are not alone. Sometimes to turn your games around, all you have to do is make few strategy adjustments that will take your game from mediocre to amazing. Check out these tips on how to take your poker games from break-even to crushing it.
Continue readingThe fine art of bluffing
Even if one of the most common strategies, the bluff is certainly one of the most thoughtful, evolved and complicated actions you can make in poker too. The basic concept is simple, you must stage a well-orchestrated plan in which your cards must appear different from what they really are and you must be very good in doing that since your opponents must believe it.
Everyone knows that to win at poker you are supposed to bluff at some point. Making someone fold a better hand is a necessary goal and there is no long term strategy in poker that can disregard the right handling of this aspect. Poker after all is a wise mix of reality and deception. In a bluff, like an illusionist, you must design a reasoning to fit your will and then believe your own lies and forge them into a truth, until the reality lies before the defeated eyes of your opponents. This is the fine art of the game, its true spirit.
Winning Poker Players Maintain Peak Mental and Physical Performance Levels
One of the most important qualities of a professional poker player is the ability to master your self-control. Dedicated players know they must exercise both their brain and their body when they are away from the table in order to stay sharp and focused during the crucial moments of a major tournament.
Reaching peak mental performance levels is not about just being smart, although it can be argued that players like Antonio Esfandiari and Vanessa Selbst are probably way up there in the IQ department. It is about strengthening and expanding your neural networks through learning experiences and pushing the brains capacity to react and store information. Your brain can improve doing anything from learning new languages to playing games.