General Hold’em Thoughts 69g1e

General Hold’em Thoughts
---Everybody needs more experience and thatincludes most pros.
---Just to see where your game is,occasionally play with better players.
---Play with confidence.
---Make quicker decisions.
---Get more money out of your great hands.
---Value bet more often.
---Play with no ego.
---Be ruthless.
---Accept your skill level.
---The tougher the game, theharder you need to try to hold your own.
---Push the advantages.
---Isolate and attack the weak players.
---Have at least a rough sense of the odds and expectations.
---Understand when a hand is worth a bet or not.
---Be more versatile and adaptable.
---Play loose, as needed.
---Make quick adjustments.
---Focus on the player more than on the hands.
---Figure out the player’s styles.
---Be unpredictable.
---Read bluffs.
---Read tells.
---Play each hand as it comes.
---Don’t think about the money, but only about making the correct play.
---Attack the tight players.
---Build your stack slowly.
---Raise a lot, but not for the same amounts.
---Raise people off their draws.
---Set a few traps.
---Bluff a little more.
--Terrence "VP Pappy" Murphy, Hallowed Hold'em Poker

Nice tips, vppappy! Although I do agree with most of them, there is one particular I am not a fan of:

"Bluff a little more"

Although this may be profitable at certain scenarios against specific opponents, I definitely button and use it only at extreme situations
So, when playing low-buyin tournaments just play top pairs, two pairs, sets and stronger. There will be almost always someone to pay you off.

I think it's important for a poker player to understand the difference between probability and luck. There is a distinction, and it's definitely relevant to poker.

Luck determines the outcome of a single hand, or a small sample of hands. Probability determines the outcome of a large sample of hands.

Poker is not a game of luck. It's a game of skill, and the skill is to estimate as accurately as possible the optimal way to play a hand based on how your opponent tends to play poker, the pot size, and the probability of winning the hand.

Poker is a game of luck if everyone plays equally optimally (or suboptimally). But that isn't what happens.

Thank you, very well formulated practical advice!

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