Just what do you have to do to be a great poker player?
This, million dollar question (literally) is pretty much at the core of poker for any player who is not just in it for the free fun games.
Is there some secret strategy which makes players successful and sets you apart from the poker free online games donks?
The answer to this is not difficult and this how to win poker games lesson has it in a nutshell.
The secret, or insider strategy key for successful good poker play at all levels from free to huge stakes is to be able to make cool headed, logical decisions at every decision point.
What we are talking about it here, and I'm sorry it's not more complicated, is to use common sense all the time and you win.
Common sense you screech? "I have plenty of common sense and I'm not winning much at all!". Ah, but common sense, in the context of poker is not very common at all.
Where most players go wrong in regard to common sense is their perception of poker. Way too many players trust to luck either some or all the time. But in reality poker is totally about skill and common sense decision making has a direct correlation to long term success.
While short term results are subject to a degree of luck in the long run skill wins out and the players playing a profitable style profit! When you view poker in this way, you see that "common sense" really is the key to winning at poker.
But what about those huge crazy bluffs the TV pros make? Fact is they all have solid and often complicated sense behind them.
The online poker pros making a big living every year?
They make their money by grinding out a high volume of hands playing a style more solid than their opponents'.
Even at free online poker sites more skilled poker players make more than the common herd..
OK great, accepted, so how to apply this? Essentially by focusing on solid fundamentals with sound tactical poker skills.
This common sense solution is basically a kind of expanded use of the virtue patience.
How exactly does common sense equate to "patience" in poker?
> In a normal Holem game you get 2 cards that only you see befie the betting (apart from blinds) starts.
> We apply standard patience logic and wait for hands that we know are profitable long term.
> Since relatively few hands can be played profitably, we'll be tight preflop.
> Applying the "use common sense" reasoning, expands our reasoning to say "poker is a game where we make money from our opponents."
> If we invest money with stronger hands than them, we'll profit.
> So to make a profit we should only play better hands preflop and this means playing tight is the best strategy.
How the Common Sense approach differs to plain patience is in the logical reasoning that you will learn to put into your decision making process.
It's the difference between "this hand is profitable so we play it" and "this hand is profitable because...so we play it", this is a significant difference when trying to build a game on solid foundations.
You need to know what you are doing at all times and WHY you are doing so much more than just following a set decision path.
The most obvious example is the one above, of playing tight hands only preflop.
While the patient approach says to play certain hands only as they are profitable your logical approach goes a step further saying that when you play good hands preflop you will get more good hands postflop and make more money, therefore only play tight preflop and fold all trash.
This approach applies to all poker concepts, for example value betting "I bet when I'm ahead of my opponents to win money", bluffing "I will bluff when I cannot win the pot unless my opponent folds and my opponent is not likely to fold if I don't bluff", and so on.
But those are concepts which will be explored more in depth in future articles in this poker free online games training series.
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