Poker skills

#1 17th January 2010, 5:41 AM

Does anyone could tell me...How to determine yr poker skills is improving or just spinning the wheels only????

It depends on whether you can won $$$ in the game or not OR.... how good you played in the hands??????

#2 17th January 2010, 6:59 AM

Success is generally a good idea, but even the best can have downswings for period, so in the short term success isnt an end all tell. Base it on your thought process throughout each hand. Do you have a reason for making each move you make? Are you putting opponents on ranges, thinking about what your range looks like, what your opponents is trying to represent, etc? If your making the correct thought process on hands, playing optimally, and adjusting to your opponent success will eventually come.

#3 17th January 2010, 7:26 AM

do you play online ??

#4 17th January 2010, 8:01 AM

A lot of players go by Sklansky's theory and system and they reward themselves with Sklansky dollars, even when they lose. It's amazing how many Poker players have thousands of Sklansky dollars but are lifelong losers of real money, lol.

I personally like rewarding myself with real money, To each their own.

#5 17th January 2010, 5:00 PM

there is only ONE measurement for success and i dont need to tell you what that is! it is VERY self explanatory

#6 17th January 2010, 5:49 PM

One par to improvement is that your thought processes will change. Not always huge changes; especially after you've been playing a while, they tend to be more evolutionary. So if you think of more possibilities and/or think deeper into them, that's an indicator of possible improvement.

Another obvious one is reading your opponents more accurately, such as being able to put them on narrower hand ranges, being able to classify them better, etc.

#7 17th January 2010, 7:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arjonius

One par to improvement is that your thought processes will change. Not always huge changes; especially after you've been playing a while, they tend to be more evolutionary. So if you think of more possibilities and/or think deeper into them, that's an indicator of possible improvement.

Another obvious one is reading your opponents more accurately, such as being able to put them on narrower hand ranges, being able to classify them better, etc.

^NH^

I was gunna say this...wouldnt hav put it aswell so I wont wven bother

#8 18th January 2010, 4:03 AM

practice makes perfect

that's it!

#9 18th January 2010, 4:28 AM

One thing that I've noticed after playing for a long time the do I:

Call?
Raise?
Fold?

questions aren't really questions anymore, they're just actions. Though if I stop to think about why I'm doing something, I've committed to the correct course of action.

In Perspective,
-Wil

#10 18th January 2010, 4:43 AM

Try to analyse your game!
It is not important if you win or loss...
You will loose many times even if you played correctly.
Read books try to analyse your hands!

#11 18th January 2010, 5:22 AM

I had mile stones that made me realize that I was getting better.Hand reading was one.Also when I got the math part down.I would hear about a theory and then try to understand it ,then try to apply it.You never stop learning poker.ever

#12 18th January 2010, 5:28 AM

Its hard to measure success, to be honest if you're making money and tilting less and less... then you're getting better.

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