In this
NoPayPOKER.com free online
poker instruction lesson we are revisiting a core poker skill originally
covered in the Building a Bankroll course a while ago. This poker skill is one
that no poker play can be without and still succeed, it is of course,
Patience.
With the rise of online poker many people who would have
otherwise never played poker have got involved on the basis of the get rich
quick teases made in the mass media.
Most of these players have only
basic poker skills and after a short while conclude that poker is just a game of
luck. That is a pity as what most of them don't know is that if they took a bit
of time to learn some basic skills and added in a dose of common sense then they
could win, at the least, lower stakes online poker cash games
consistently.
This is in fact good news for the skilled online poker
player as it means you can win a lot of money from the 90% majority of bad ones!
After all, to say that poker is mainly luck is clearly ridiculous, if it were so
then how is it that we have so many well know and consistent poker
professionals, many of whom make a good living from poker players with some of
the best being multi-millionaires by virtue of poker game winnings?
Precisely,
if it were game of luck then that would be impossible, (we don't get big names
in the coin flipping game business do we now!) the conclusion clearly then is
that poker is game that requires skills.
There are dozens of poker skills
that can be isolated but the one that stands heads and shoulders above all the
other is Patience. If you can't be patient when you play poker then it doesn't
matter that you are a psychology and math PHD who can calculate all the odds in
an instant and read people like a book because if you can't wait for the right
cards at the right time, you're doomed.
So why don't we start some poker
training by example of the use and implementing patience.
Use of
patience in poker tournament play.
In tournaments, especially at the
start you need to defend against reckless players who throw their chips with no
care at all, in the hope of landing a lucky break. It's easy to fall into the
trap of thinking they know what they're doing. They do not!
Instead you
must hold out for some premium cards. Fold some, lose a few chips in order that
you win a whole pile of chips from them later when you hand comes in and at the
same time knock them out.
All you have to do is sit and wait for the
dealer to push a couple of good cards to you. Just relax until then. Winning
money is a lot more fun that losing it and poker is 100% about winning money,
not gambling, not having fun but winning money which is actually fun anyway,
ergo!
Patience Developing Exercise (PDE)Here is a simple
exercise, and it produces the desired results though it is boring and time
consuming (though less so that losing!)
Go and join a free online poker
freeroll. Make it one with a lot of players.
1) For the entirety of the
game you're only allowed to participate in a hand if you were dealt pocket aces
or pocket kings.
2) Strictly no other pockets can be played.
3)
And, you cannot initiate a bet, or put forth a raise.
4) If you do have
AA or KK in the pocket, you can call a bet and partake in the hand.
5)
Again, though, you cannot raise or initiate any betting.
6) Also, if
you're the Big Blind, and you do not hold aces or kings, you must fold; even
when there may not have been a raise made against your big blind.
The PDE
has helped thousands of players bring patience to the forefront of their skill
sets.
When you play in a PDE game you're only going to participate in
about 1% of the hands. You'll get AA and KK once in every 212 pockets. Yes that
is boring I know! .
Indeed this article is a bit boring too but if you
can take the point of it that is represents 50%+ of the skill you need to win
poker then I do not think the consequences will be boring at all!
So if
you are not already a patient player get over to a free online poker games freeroll and play the PDE game.
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