Showing posts with label professional poker players. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professional poker players. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Poker Tells by Daniel Negreanu

Poker Tells from the professional players like Daniel Negreanu are always good to learn. So, without wasting anytime let us discuss very good poker tells that are explained by him with examples. The beginner poker players always do big mistakes by doing bluff even if it’s not necessary. Novice players ooze all the poker tells when they face a weak hand.

Here is the example. Player “A” raises before the flop in a “$5-$10 Texas Hold’em” poker game with 10  J  and obviously some other player calls your bet. K  9  4  are the hands that come in the “flop” round. With this combination of flush and straight draw you will bet with $5. This round continues and your opponents raises your bet with $5 and you call.

And now comes the turn where 7  is the hand. Your opponent bets $10 and of course you will call the bet. The final river comes and makes you feel like start bluffing as the hand is 2  so called “A big fat brick!” Here you start bluffing that possibly could not work anyways. Till then you were playing slow and steady and now after seeing the river card you start bluffing and try to confuse your opponents by reacting fast to the bets. So, don’t you ever change your rate of play at any stage of the game? I suggest you not to do this and maintain the same rate of reaction throughout the game. Instead under such situation you can follow few tells of poker like re-raising the bet on the flop, check-raise the bet on the turn etc that could help to confuse your opponents

Poker tells with good hand

Poker tells will help you increase money in the pot if you have nuts in your hand. Beginner poker players often ooze their poker tells with nuts in their hand. This may lead to the folding of your opponent’s cards without having much amount in the pot. So, the poker tells comes into picture to help you in winning more money. We all know that we play to win but how well you deserve the win matters. Even a novice poker player can win against professional poker players like Daniel Negreanu if he is holding a royal flush or a straight flush combination. Here wining doesn’t bother anyone. Under these situations you must be able to increase the money in the pot which definitely is going to be yours by following some basic poker tells.

Don’t you ever play aggressively with nuts in your hand? This is the biggest mistake that one can do as you were unable to increase the pot amount. So, play slow and steady till you find good amount in the pot. Then hit the hammer on your opponents. For more information on how to follow this poker tells you can refer “Making good Use of The Over-Bet” by Nick Eisel.

Poker Tells on Bad Beats

There are many hypothetical examples to illustrate the worst bad beats ever. It’s very important for beginner poker players also for the semi-professional poker players. This is one among the top poker tells that can make you a professional poker player. Let us discuss step by step on how to adopt this poker tell and become a professional poker player.

1. You never get tilted by the bad beats if you bankroll management is good enough.

2. Beginner poker players in ignorance will commit all their chips before the flop which is pretty dangerous and chances of getting a bad beat are more.

3. Semi professional poker players are always disappointed with their profits. So, with this kind of frustration you won’t be in a position to face any bad beats. So I suggest semi professional poker players to concentrate more on the game than on your profits.

4. Don’t play in aggressive fashion unless you have nuts in your hand. You never know when a shark is going to jump on you in the form of bad beats.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Poker Tells - Hands Analysis

Poker Tells completely depends on the reaction of your opponents to each move. This form of poker tell is followed since decades. A professional poker player always try being unpredictable without allowing any kind of facial expression showing up on his face. To avoid this a poker players always use caps or sunglasses and hide themselves.

Here are few poker tells on your opponents reaction. If the opponent is betting quite often then it just means that he has a good hand combination or probably the nuts. So, better play carefully against such players. Few players give a pause before check that means they are weak. If they were strong they would never think before check. A player with strong hands usually would check in no time and raise. Don’t believe the players who thinks a lot. They usually do this to confuse the opponents by being unpredictable.

Poker Tells - How to Spot?

Poker Tells is all about how better you read your opponents and their moves. Learning poker Tells is not so easy. There are many factors that are to be considered before you actually start learning poker tells. Poker is not a mind game completely, also luck has to favor to win a game. So, instead of just following the basic rules of the poker game, professional poker players also implement few strategies, poker tells and bluff etc.

One of the most important poker tells is watching your opponents eyes carefully. Most of the players use sunglasses and caps to prevent themselves. Also the facial expressions speaks a lot while playing poker. The players usually show no reaction through out the game but its very tough to manage unless you are poker pro. Some players use the rule of opposites which has become a very old strategy and useless to implement.