Poker is not only about the knowledge, strategy and mathematics. It is not only about the poker psychology, analyze skills. Every poker player treating the game seriously will admit that also important is poker etiquette. It is even more important when you play live.
The rules of rakeback poker etiquette we can divide into two groups. Following one of them would let us to keep a nice atmosphere while playing. It is important especially when we play against the same opponents, at the same place. Second group of the rules have a direct impact on the game itself. Anyone who doesn’t follow them might be punished by the sit-out.
We shouldn’t think of the past hands to much. We should wait until the end of the game to analyze our play. If we experienced a bad beat it might be even more dangerous to our further play. There is no point of doing so out loud as it might frustrate our rakeback pals and the good atmosphere is the most important after all.
Don’t teach others how to play. Even when some poker players don’t really know how to play poker, once you’re all in the game you shouldn’t tell them what to do in a particular situation. First of all other players would like to win as much money as they could. Second of all they might not want to hear our advices as they came to have fun.
Play quick and don’t slow the play down. There might be some hands, which require more time, however most of the time you’d be able to make a decision quickly. Might be even better to switch the mobile off and focus on the game. There is nothing more frustrating the player who asks: Is it my turn?
Slow roll is other annoying thing. If we know that we won we should rather show the cards straight away. Building tension or pretending that we lost is a really bad acting. You have to know how to loose and how to win in a style.
Play by yourself and don’t ask anyone for help, no matter if it’s other opponent or someone who just folded the cards. All decisions you have to make on your own. Also don’t take your chips out of the table. There are some cases when the player winning a bigger pot takes part of his stack under the table. All chips must remain on the table, unless you are going to finish the game and take the chips home.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
How to Steal the Blinds
How to become a perfect thief ? It’s of course nothing to be proud of in a real life, however in poker it will bring the success. Stealing the blinds is one of the most required skills in tournaments. If we are not going to steal the blinds then it is even better not to play the rakeback tournament at all. In the tournament the blinds raise up every few minutes and at the end of the game they’re really high.
What is stealing the blinds then? It is a simple pre-flop bet, which aims to get the blinds from the pot, when we do not want to be checked. The cards don’t matter here. We might bet with a draw hand, such as 8-9 or with a rubbish card such as 3-9. The point is to get the blinds without the check. The position is important here. It would be very stupid to bluff with 3-9 in the early or even in the middle position. Unless we have very passive players. Most of the time we don’t bluff with such cards at all. We should steal the blinds only from our late position. If all the players folded their cards and we have only the blinds before us that are the signal. The chance we may steal the blinds and other players will fold is very high.
Type of our opponents is a very important factor here. We do not want to bluff if our opponent plays loose and watches most of the flops. These poker players would like to defence their blinds, so the idea of stealing the blinds from them is a simple mistake. If the players on blinds are very tight though and they play only premium hands stealing the blinds must be beneficial.
Our proper image as a rakeback poker player is a necessity. We can not steal the blinds too often. Even if we are in a good position. It might become clear to our opponents that we are stealing. Unless we have a good hand – such as pocket Kings. Once we are caught on stealing the blinds the best way will be to slow down and stop bluffing.
The size of the stack is also an important factor. Our should be much bigger than our opponents’. We shouldn’t attack the blinds of those players whose stack is much bigger than ours and those short stack payers, who must protect their blinds otherwise they would finish the game. If our stack is getting short than we should make a decision if we want to defend our bet. It is not a good idea if we hold a rubbish hand.
Stealing the blinds require a proper bet. How high shall we make a bet then? Mini raise is a weak method, as our opponent gets quite good odds, so he might check our move. We should make a bet as we would make it having a premium hand. If we bet 3 times of the blind then we should keep it that way. The best method is to bet from 2,5 to 4 times of the blinds. Don’t bet too high as we risk too much and we might get caught.
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What is stealing the blinds then? It is a simple pre-flop bet, which aims to get the blinds from the pot, when we do not want to be checked. The cards don’t matter here. We might bet with a draw hand, such as 8-9 or with a rubbish card such as 3-9. The point is to get the blinds without the check. The position is important here. It would be very stupid to bluff with 3-9 in the early or even in the middle position. Unless we have very passive players. Most of the time we don’t bluff with such cards at all. We should steal the blinds only from our late position. If all the players folded their cards and we have only the blinds before us that are the signal. The chance we may steal the blinds and other players will fold is very high.
Type of our opponents is a very important factor here. We do not want to bluff if our opponent plays loose and watches most of the flops. These poker players would like to defence their blinds, so the idea of stealing the blinds from them is a simple mistake. If the players on blinds are very tight though and they play only premium hands stealing the blinds must be beneficial.
Our proper image as a rakeback poker player is a necessity. We can not steal the blinds too often. Even if we are in a good position. It might become clear to our opponents that we are stealing. Unless we have a good hand – such as pocket Kings. Once we are caught on stealing the blinds the best way will be to slow down and stop bluffing.
The size of the stack is also an important factor. Our should be much bigger than our opponents’. We shouldn’t attack the blinds of those players whose stack is much bigger than ours and those short stack payers, who must protect their blinds otherwise they would finish the game. If our stack is getting short than we should make a decision if we want to defend our bet. It is not a good idea if we hold a rubbish hand.
Stealing the blinds require a proper bet. How high shall we make a bet then? Mini raise is a weak method, as our opponent gets quite good odds, so he might check our move. We should make a bet as we would make it having a premium hand. If we bet 3 times of the blind then we should keep it that way. The best method is to bet from 2,5 to 4 times of the blinds. Don’t bet too high as we risk too much and we might get caught.
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The Fundaments So Poker Theory
There is a book the theory of Poker written by David Sklansky, which might be one of the most important to read. The fundament of poker theory is the key to understanding what the good poker game is.
For many of us, who just started the big adventure with rakeback poker it seems to be odd that not the cards are the most important during the poker game or the winning hands. The most important is making proper decisions. If we win or loose doesn’t matter here. In a longer period of time making good decisions would mean we are the winner. What is the importance of making good decisions then?
Poker is a game of incomplete information. In chess we have a different situation, where we have full information about the actual game. In other words if we would see all of the cards of our poker opponents there would exist a perfect mathematical strategy of the game. Every poker player who would play differently than this strategy would mathematically decrease his expected winnings and increase the gains of his opponents. There is no such a game of course. Poker is a game, where we have to fulfill the gaps in incomplete information we got and on the other hand we can not let our opponents to do the same.
Every time when we play a hand differently if we would play it seeing cards of our opponents – then our rivals gain. Every time when our opponent play differently than the rule would expect we win, and he looses. Unless he plays accordingly to the perfect strategy then we loose. That is the fundament of playing rakeback poker.
Let’s say we have JT and our opponent KQ. Flop Q87. We check, but our opponent bets. We check. Turn shows an Ace. Now we bet. Our opponent not sure about the strength of his hand just checks. In this moment accordingly to the theory of poker we gained – no matter what the result is going to be. If our opponent would know what our cards are he should rise up strongly, so we would pay for our draw hand a lot. If we would make our opponent to play against the poker rule then his mistake would make us the winner at some point.
Once we familiar with that rule we should also remember about another quite important factor. Not every mistake from the fundamental theory of poker is considered as a bad play. We might have pocket 7s and there is 7-8-J-J-7. We won’t fold cards when all-in. Even when the opponent has pocket Jacks we can not say we played badly. The key is to play accordingly to the fundamental theory of poker.
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For many of us, who just started the big adventure with rakeback poker it seems to be odd that not the cards are the most important during the poker game or the winning hands. The most important is making proper decisions. If we win or loose doesn’t matter here. In a longer period of time making good decisions would mean we are the winner. What is the importance of making good decisions then?
Poker is a game of incomplete information. In chess we have a different situation, where we have full information about the actual game. In other words if we would see all of the cards of our poker opponents there would exist a perfect mathematical strategy of the game. Every poker player who would play differently than this strategy would mathematically decrease his expected winnings and increase the gains of his opponents. There is no such a game of course. Poker is a game, where we have to fulfill the gaps in incomplete information we got and on the other hand we can not let our opponents to do the same.
Every time when we play a hand differently if we would play it seeing cards of our opponents – then our rivals gain. Every time when our opponent play differently than the rule would expect we win, and he looses. Unless he plays accordingly to the perfect strategy then we loose. That is the fundament of playing rakeback poker.
Let’s say we have JT and our opponent KQ. Flop Q87. We check, but our opponent bets. We check. Turn shows an Ace. Now we bet. Our opponent not sure about the strength of his hand just checks. In this moment accordingly to the theory of poker we gained – no matter what the result is going to be. If our opponent would know what our cards are he should rise up strongly, so we would pay for our draw hand a lot. If we would make our opponent to play against the poker rule then his mistake would make us the winner at some point.
Once we familiar with that rule we should also remember about another quite important factor. Not every mistake from the fundamental theory of poker is considered as a bad play. We might have pocket 7s and there is 7-8-J-J-7. We won’t fold cards when all-in. Even when the opponent has pocket Jacks we can not say we played badly. The key is to play accordingly to the fundamental theory of poker.
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How to Deal with Poker Tilt after the Bad Beat
Bad Beats in rakeback poker are one of the elements in poker player’s career. Are we prepared for such an unfortunate incident? If we can not deal with the bad beat we can easily get into the tilt and our results get affected seriously.
Jonathan little is a great poker player. His winnings brought all together over 4, 3 million of dollars. Little explains how to deal with the poker tilt. Let’s take the cash game with $10/$20, where little is doing very well, although nothing spectacular hasn’t happened.
Pre-flop – the opponent rise up to $80. Little having pocket KK raise up from the small blind up to $260 and when the pot is $560 the opponent checks. Both of the players know each other very well and they probably studied the style of the opponent. Little considered his opponent as loose-aggressive, who plays different and a bit weird games.
Flop Q 9 4 little plays for $340 and he is checked by the opponent. The pot is $1,220 now. Little after such an action bets more of the flops, especially when he’s got top pocket pair. Even though his opponent would go all-in with KK little would check definitely. After all he played against the player who would go all-in having no matter which contact with the flop.
Turn – 8. Little plays for $500 and his opponent play all-in for $1,700. Little checks. The river doesn’t bring a good card for little, but with the JT it could make a strait and that was something what the opponent could have, although he used to play rakeback poker such a card many times with nothing. Perhaps this time the opponent is trying to fake a strong hand.
River – 3. Little show his KK and the opponent – 2 and 9. Thanks to the color on the river he gets an entire pot of $4,620. In this moment little must deal with the bad beat. Unlucky games aren’t pleasant or funny, but we can not take it seriously though. If little feels that he won’t control the emotions the best thing is to get up from the table and stop playing.
If that would be poker tournament he would need to deal with the tilt and play further. Sometime it might be worth to continue the cash game as well. We need to control the emotions and play as nothing has happened. We have to learn how to deal with the tilt. After loosing buy-in twice in a row Little takes a break or he stops the game. Thanks to that he doesn’t play when he is anxious. Bad Beats though are not up to us. Worse scenario is when we make the wrong move.
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Jonathan little is a great poker player. His winnings brought all together over 4, 3 million of dollars. Little explains how to deal with the poker tilt. Let’s take the cash game with $10/$20, where little is doing very well, although nothing spectacular hasn’t happened.
Pre-flop – the opponent rise up to $80. Little having pocket KK raise up from the small blind up to $260 and when the pot is $560 the opponent checks. Both of the players know each other very well and they probably studied the style of the opponent. Little considered his opponent as loose-aggressive, who plays different and a bit weird games.
Flop Q 9 4 little plays for $340 and he is checked by the opponent. The pot is $1,220 now. Little after such an action bets more of the flops, especially when he’s got top pocket pair. Even though his opponent would go all-in with KK little would check definitely. After all he played against the player who would go all-in having no matter which contact with the flop.
Turn – 8. Little plays for $500 and his opponent play all-in for $1,700. Little checks. The river doesn’t bring a good card for little, but with the JT it could make a strait and that was something what the opponent could have, although he used to play rakeback poker such a card many times with nothing. Perhaps this time the opponent is trying to fake a strong hand.
River – 3. Little show his KK and the opponent – 2 and 9. Thanks to the color on the river he gets an entire pot of $4,620. In this moment little must deal with the bad beat. Unlucky games aren’t pleasant or funny, but we can not take it seriously though. If little feels that he won’t control the emotions the best thing is to get up from the table and stop playing.
If that would be poker tournament he would need to deal with the tilt and play further. Sometime it might be worth to continue the cash game as well. We need to control the emotions and play as nothing has happened. We have to learn how to deal with the tilt. After loosing buy-in twice in a row Little takes a break or he stops the game. Thanks to that he doesn’t play when he is anxious. Bad Beats though are not up to us. Worse scenario is when we make the wrong move.
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How to Deal with Poker Tilt after the Bad Beat
Bad Beats in rakeback poker are one of the elements in poker player’s career. Are we prepared for such an unfortunate incident? If we can not deal with the bad beat we can easily get into the tilt and our results get affected seriously.
Jonathan little is a great poker player. His winnings brought all together over 4, 3 million of dollars. Little explains how to deal with the poker tilt. Let’s take the cash game with $10/$20, where little is doing very well, although nothing spectacular hasn’t happened.
Pre-flop – the opponent rise up to $80. Little having pocket KK raise up from the small blind up to $260 and when the pot is $560 the opponent checks. Both of the players know each other very well and they probably studied the style of the opponent. Little considered his opponent as loose-aggressive, who plays different and a bit weird games.
Flop Q 9 4 little plays for $340 and he is checked by the opponent. The pot is $1,220 now. Little after such an action bets more of the flops, especially when he’s got top pocket pair. Even though his opponent would go all-in with KK little would check definitely. After all he played against the player who would go all-in having no matter which contact with the flop.
Turn – 8. Little plays for $500 and his opponent play all-in for $1,700. Little checks. The river doesn’t bring a good card for little, but with the JT it could make a strait and that was something what the opponent could have, although he used to play rakeback poker such a card many times with nothing. Perhaps this time the opponent is trying to fake a strong hand.
River – 3. Little show his KK and the opponent – 2 and 9. Thanks to the color on the river he gets an entire pot of $4,620. In this moment little must deal with the bad beat. Unlucky games aren’t pleasant or funny, but we can not take it seriously though. If little feels that he won’t control the emotions the best thing is to get up from the table and stop playing.
If that would be poker tournament he would need to deal with the tilt and play further. Sometime it might be worth to continue the cash game as well. We need to control the emotions and play as nothing has happened. We have to learn how to deal with the tilt. After loosing buy-in twice in a row Little takes a break or he stops the game. Thanks to that he doesn’t play when he is anxious. Bad Beats though are not up to us. Worse scenario is when we make the wrong move.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakeback.co.uk
Jonathan little is a great poker player. His winnings brought all together over 4, 3 million of dollars. Little explains how to deal with the poker tilt. Let’s take the cash game with $10/$20, where little is doing very well, although nothing spectacular hasn’t happened.
Pre-flop – the opponent rise up to $80. Little having pocket KK raise up from the small blind up to $260 and when the pot is $560 the opponent checks. Both of the players know each other very well and they probably studied the style of the opponent. Little considered his opponent as loose-aggressive, who plays different and a bit weird games.
Flop Q 9 4 little plays for $340 and he is checked by the opponent. The pot is $1,220 now. Little after such an action bets more of the flops, especially when he’s got top pocket pair. Even though his opponent would go all-in with KK little would check definitely. After all he played against the player who would go all-in having no matter which contact with the flop.
Turn – 8. Little plays for $500 and his opponent play all-in for $1,700. Little checks. The river doesn’t bring a good card for little, but with the JT it could make a strait and that was something what the opponent could have, although he used to play rakeback poker such a card many times with nothing. Perhaps this time the opponent is trying to fake a strong hand.
River – 3. Little show his KK and the opponent – 2 and 9. Thanks to the color on the river he gets an entire pot of $4,620. In this moment little must deal with the bad beat. Unlucky games aren’t pleasant or funny, but we can not take it seriously though. If little feels that he won’t control the emotions the best thing is to get up from the table and stop playing.
If that would be poker tournament he would need to deal with the tilt and play further. Sometime it might be worth to continue the cash game as well. We need to control the emotions and play as nothing has happened. We have to learn how to deal with the tilt. After loosing buy-in twice in a row Little takes a break or he stops the game. Thanks to that he doesn’t play when he is anxious. Bad Beats though are not up to us. Worse scenario is when we make the wrong move.
For More Details Please Contact at : http://www.rakeback.co.uk
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