Play Free Poker Tournaments Players Guide To How To Beat More Experien
18 August 2010In this article you will learn why good players will generally easily beat the novice, and, if you are a novice or less advanced player what you can try to do to survive and even prosper if you find yourself circled by hungry sharks!
A good player can normally easily beat the novice as he knows the patterns novice player tend to follow, given the Board cards, the novice's actions and the position. Good players can also put them on a hand.
They will know if a novice player is holding a suited connector; a pocket pair, or even, in some extreme cases, a Set. The good player knows to play a Straight weak or even fold it when the Board pairs and the novice suddenly dumps down loads of his chips.
Let us make some systematic analysis about our novice player. For the purpose of this we will say that a player wins a pot when,
he wins the hand in a showdown or
he makes all his opponents fold. If we want our novice player to win a pot against a good player, what kinds of hands should he play, and how?
For example, if the novice aims to win the showdown. Then he has to play the good players through the preflop, turn and river. At each stage the good player will get more information from the novice player than the novice player can get from the good player.
If the good player has more information, then he knows immediately whether the novice player has a good hand or not. He can continue to showdown and probably win a big pot, if he keeps on value-betting our novice. Or he can lose a small pot, if he slows down and just checks. Or he is able to make the novice fold.
Suppose our novice now tries
to make his opponents fold. (Let us assume the Board can help him only a little, and his hand, from the flop up to the river, will not be of showdown quality.) During the flop, turn, and the river, the good player will extract more inferences from the Board cards than the novice player will.
If our novice, who normally has the tendency to get excited, overrepresents a hand unnecessarily, then he will just be called by the good player (unless he plays really strongly, but he can't overdo this either).
From these, we gather that the pieces of information needed to make a decision is:
1. Your cards.
2. Your perception of your opponents' cards.
3. The Board cards.
4. Tells your opponent gives away.
5. Tells you reveal to your opponent.
6. Previous tendencies of each player.
7. Position.
Both the novice as well as the good player has (1) and (3), but the good player's judgment is usually more accurate with all these criteria. A good player, for instance, will believe that 8-7 (his cards) is not so nice-looking in a flop of 10-7-3 (the Board cards), but a novice player may. As for (4), (5), and
which stems from (1), (2) and (3), the good player is usually more aware of these. And good players care more for (7) than novice ones.
So if our novice wants to play a pot against a good player, he cannot really rely fully on the information above, for he cannot interpret them well. So our novice should find a spot in which the good player also cannot rely on most of the information above, so that they will be on equal footing. When is it? Answer: Preflop. How to play? All-in.
Preflop, your perception of your opponent's cards is less accurate than after the flop falls. Also, because there are no Board cards yet, tells are less reliable. Finally, because a novice is less likely to have previous tendencies resulting from experience, the good player has little hold on
. And preflop all-ins are dependent on hand strength mainly than position.
By moving all-in you may make your opponent fold (which is a win) or entice him to a showdown. Don't call yourself all-in, however, unless you have a premium hand. Once your opponent does this move, if he is a good opponent, he knows you are vulnerable.) When he does want a showdown, he is deprived of postflop information that may increase his chances of making an good decision. At this point, although the good player is still good, he has to play in terms of novice play.
The good hands the novice may have are still the traditional all-in hands: A-A, K-K, Q-Q, etc. A-K (or similar) is quite shaky, but if you can lull someone with 7-7 to play with you, you are still about 50-50 with him.Whereas if you take him to the Flop, he will have more possibilities to play his 7-7 better than you would play your A-K, and you will be defeated most of the time. Let us say your chance to win above is just 25% postflop; why don't you take the 50-50 instead?
Summing up
It takes some time to learn how to play poker online or offline at a level above the unthinking donk "chip flinging" seen on many free poker tables.Most players it seems can't or won't put the time in, they claim to play just for fun which misses out on the key fact that winning lots and beating all these "fun" players is a lot more fun!
Yes it is crazy that so many play with so little skill, but it is also very good news for you as a player who aims to learn to play well. That's because once you learn to play poker with above average skill and are able to combat the "all-in-all the time" donk maniacs then you can take them apart in coldly calculated massacres anytime you like. This can mean really good easy money in low stakes money online games and in free online poker tournaments games that pay out real cash such as those found at http://www.NoPayPOKER.com.
To make this work first, play free poker tournaments to learn to play poker online free where you can learn while you lose but without losing real money, then once ready to can move up to low stakes and start to make some serious poker cash!

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