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Jan
17th
By James Johnson Correspondent
for Wager On Football
Offshore Sportsbetting - Online
Casino Gambling - Online Poker Rooms
Poker Strategy
Not every poker player realizes that money saved
is equal to money won. When we sit down to play
we want to win and we come out swinging with good
hands, get ourselves into pots we can win, and take
the money down. When we do that we’re happy.
If we sat down with a rack of chips and increased
it to a rack and a half, we’d have seen our
fortunes grow by fifty percent and displayed our
primacy at the holy game, visible evidence of our
skill, knowledge, cunning, and luck. Our opponents
can see it too, and breathes there a poker player
alive who is not justifiably proud of a terrific
bluff, the ability to lure an opponent in for an
additional bet while holding a powerhouse hand?
Everyone loves the moment. Dragging in a big pot
full of chips is incredibly satisfying to our egos.
But that’s only half the battle. Money you
save by not calling a bet with a weak hand spends
just as well as that extra bet you garnered through
your impressive offensive display. We love offense.
Perhaps it’s endemic to poker players. We
like to win. We seem to be that way when it comes
to any competitive endeavor. Quarterbacks who make
the big plays get the big bucks, more than the cornerbacks
and safeties that prevent big plays. We prefer big
hitters who can’t field a lick to gold-glove
shortstops with their .243 batting averages. You
can argue about which player is more valuable. But
in poker there’s no argument at all. Defensive
play is the equal of offensive play; only many players
never realize it.
What you don’t spend, you don’t have
to earn. Money represented by a bet saved spends
just as well as money gained. This is quite an important
notion. If you’re a good player, able to win
between one and one-and-one-half big bets per hour
(and it’s tough to ever average more than
that), a bet saved is a pretty big thing!
In a Hold’em game you’re in the blind
about six hands per hour and some of your blinds
will be raised. Routinely calling each raise from
the blind may cost you quite a bit of money. The
same thing holds true if you make weak calls when
the flop neither hits your hand nor provides a draw
to a flush or a straight. These are all opportunities
to save a bet. While it seems small, after all,
“…only one bet,” those bets add
up. A bet here and a bet there, and pretty soon
you’ve traversed that line separating consistently
winning players from consistently losing players.
When the skill gaps are small, often the determining
factor between who wins and who contributes is the
discipline to save a bet with hands that aren’t
quite hopeless, but do not offer the right price
to continue the fray. Saving a bet is neither dramatic,
nor ego satisfying, nor likely to rouse the envy
of your peers and adversaries, but it’s spendable
cash. The degree that you know when to save a bet
by folding may be the key to your success at the
poker. After all, even Kenny Rogers knows “
...you gotta know when to fold ’em.”
Do you?
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