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This “golden question”, may seem like the end all be all in poker.
So many players want to know if there is some sort of insider strategy for universal success and sets you apart from the poker free online donks and hapless grinders forever.
The answer is very simple and in this how to win poker games guide I’ll tell you right here and now.
The secret, or insider strategy key for successful good poker play at all levels from free to huge stakes is to be able to make cool headed, logical decisions at every decision point.
In other words, to “use common sense at all times” and win, sorry it’s not more profound than that.
Common sense you screech? “I have plenty of common sense and I’m not winning much at all!”. But common sense, you’ll come to realize, just isn’t that common when it comes to poker.
Where most players go wrong in regard to common sense is their perception of poker. Way too many players trust to luck either some or all the time. In reality, poker is a skill based game where making good decisions directly correlates to long term profits.
True, short term results seem to be subject to a degree of luck (uncontrollable probability in fact) but long term the skill play approach evens this out and gives players with a profitable style money! Once you adjust your poker view to accept this you see that “common sense” is the core key to winning poker.
Those big bluffs you see top pros make on TV? Fact is they all have solid and often complicated sense behind them.
The internet pros making tens to hundreds of thousands per year?
They make all that money by playing thousands of hands in a solid steady style that overwhelms the majority of their opponents’.
Even on free online poker sites more skilled poker players profit more than the worse ones.
OK great, accepted, so how to apply this? Essentially by focusing on solid fundamentals with sound tactical poker skills.
This common sense solution is basically a kind of expanded use of the virtue patience.
How does common sense equal “patience” in poker?
> In a normal Holem game you get 2 cards that only you see befie the betting (apart from blinds) starts.
> We apply standard patience logic and wait for hands that we know are profitable long term.
> There are not so many such hands so basically we are playing tight preflop.
> Adding common sense into this mix we will now say that the idea of poker is to take money from the other players.
> Therefore when we invest money with better hands we will makes a profit.
> Therefore, we only play stronger hands preflop so we can profit, and as such should generally play tight.
Where the “common sense” concept outstrips simple “patience” is in the fact that the “common sense” line of thought is more logical in the reasoning it lends to your decisions.
It’s the difference between “this hand is profitable so we play it” and “this hand is profitable because…so we play it”, this is a significant difference when trying to build a game on solid foundations.
You should know what you’re doing at all times and WHY you are doing it beyond some set in stone rulebook.
The easiest application of this is playing tight (no trash hands!) preflop.
It’s logical to think that starting out with stronger hands than our opponents preflop will lead to us having better hands postflop and making money off our opponents, and the way to start with stronger hands than our opponents preflop is to play tight and fold our trash.
This approach applies to all poker concepts, for example value betting “I bet when I’m ahead of my opponents to win money”, bluffing “I will bluff when I cannot win the pot unless my opponent folds and my opponent is not likely to fold if I don’t bluff”, and so on.
But those are concepts which will be explored more in depth in future articles in this poker free online training series.
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