Poker is a mathmatical game, to play it well, you need some skills . acoording to my years’ experience, i conclude them into self-control, Make a strategy,Hide your act, read, Bringing a Variety of Skills to the Table,Left Brain Meet Right Brain, Using your memory and so on.
Self-control
“Dope will get you through times of no money better
than money will get you through times of no dope.”
– The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
It makes me think of a universal truth of poker: self-control will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no self-control.
No poker concept is of any importance if a player does not exercise self-control. And, the vast majority of poker players demonstrate truly horrible self-control.
Figuring out the correct strategy or tactic is not easy to say the least, but when cooler heads prevail, a lot of players know pretty much what to do, and also why. Still, a large number of these people will often simply not do what they know they should do.
Make a strategy
To win a game like Survivor, you need a strategy that takes you to the final finish line. Flashy, temporary triumphs are of little value. The game only ends when the last vote is cast. Being tactically best at some aspects of the game does not mean you will end up a winner.
So it is in poker. Most poker players see short term tactics (playing hands) and tactical victories in the wrong light. Tactical hand playing skills are important too be sure, but poker is a “meta-game” where strategy and actions outside the actual card-playing impact the game. Poker is a lifelong game where self-control, bankroll management, game and table selection, and other skills are all more important than the actual card-playing
Hide your act
Just look around the table, you will found silent stony faces, sheathed in hoods and sunglasses. When you are playing you need to learn to conceal your tells. The first step toward doing this is to develop a better understanding of tells, where they come from and how they work.
There are often observable differences between the ways your opponents act when then they are strong and the ways they act when they are weak. This is the source of tells. If you are familiar with the movie Rounders, you may recall that John Malkovich (Tony KGB) has a brutal tell. When he has a strong hand, he cracks open an Oreo cookie and eats it, and when he is bluffing, he cracks the cookie and plays with it, but does not eat. In real life, most poker tells are not that dramatic. They often happen in an instant and can be very difficult to prevent. They often come from slight differences in hand movements, breathing, eye contact, etc.
The most basic thing that you can do to help conceal your tells is to standardize both your betting and your body movements. For instance, when betting it is a good idea to be consistent about how you put your chips into the pot. This requires you to develop a standard method for putting chips into the pot, which you should use every time you bet. Whether you choose to push your chips out in a stack, splash them, or use some other method is not important. What is important is that you stay consistent in you method so that your opponent can not get a read on you based upon how you put your chips into the pot.
Be conscious of your breathing and speech patterns. It is common for a player who is bluffing to unconsciously hold their breath when they are bluffing. It is also common for a player with a strong hand to become overly talkative while the hand is in play.
Can you read?
Good poker players should be constantly studying and evaluating and critiquing every phase of their play. “Reading” does not only mean literally reading words on a page. Trying to learn is an attitude, a way to approach the game. Reading is the borrowing of publicly available information provided by those around us. Sometimes this information is deliberately provided, like in a book, sometimes we cleverly discover it, like picking up a tell on an opponent. In any case, a reader is a person who knows things because they have studied, and a person who wants to know more things.
people shouldn’t just blindly believe everything they read. And, some things we read will mislead us and send us on the wrong path. But a constant attitude of trying to improve our game is in itself a fundamental part of what it takes to actually succeed at improving our game.
Bringing a Variety of Skills to the Table
Poker, as moneymaking endeavor, likewise has many dissimilar aspects that are seemingly unrelated but actually are working together. Winning poker is about making money over a career. You can win and lose hands/days/tournaments, but those results are all just details in a much bigger “picture”. And, these details exist among an even larger sea of details like study, game selection, bankroll management, self-reflection, traveling, self-control, etc.
Hard as it is for some people to accept, most of our poker career takes place away from the poker table. If you spend a year building a bankroll, and then blow it one night on the crap table, you are a lousy poker player. If you excel in most aspects of poker, but you completely ignore game selection, you will eventually fail. These examples are not hard to see. Some leaks are obvious gushers.
But I’m not primarily talking about leaks here today. I’m talking about, like To Kill a Mockingbird, bringing together a variety of assets to create something amazingly valuable. The more solid, quality assets you can bring to your overall game, the greater a masterpiece you can create
Left Brain Meet Right Brain
Many people look at the most successful “old-school” players as brilliantly “intuitive” — players who come to conclusions by instinct, by feel, without a deliberate thought-process, they just “know.
I deeply believe that God gave us two halves of a brain for a good reason. We should be using both sides of our brains to win at poker. Why would anybody want to play with half a brain??
In poker, we mostly use the skills from the right side of our brains to gather data.. Every poker player uses both parts of the brain. The most right-brained player still knows how to add 3+3. The most left-brained person still notices when an opponent reacts as if hit by lightning when a particular card is dealt. This is not an either/or situation. We do use both sides of our brains. But everyone is bound to use one side a little or a lot more than the other. To play this game, you need your whole brain
Using your memory
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
– George Santayana
Poker is a complex mass of pot situations and player tendencies. It’s not just “what” somebody did that you need to remember, but the “why” and the “how” and with “who”. Just like in history, where all events are in a context (Napoleon didn’t just wake up one day and decide to invade Russia), useful poker information about your opponents needs to be observed and remembered in the proper context. If the job were to just remember one person, it would be easy. But the job involves at least several people (a home game), or a couple hundred people (middle limit players in Connecticut or San Jose, for example), or literally hundreds of players (lower limit games in Los Angeles).
