pkrplr4116
Legend
Silver Level
Hi All,
I've played online poker regularly since August 2005. And for almost all of that time I've only had sporadic success. Mostly a huge losing career. But, occasionally a huge win here and there. Very frustrating.
I moved to Vegas and just before coming back east, one of my poker coaches gave me a hint about my cash game, which was $4-8 limit. He told me a 'story' about Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Johnny had a skit about the fictional Fuquai tribe. They would get lost I guess, somewhere in the audience or on the set, and someone would ask, "Where the Fuquai" As in Where the Fu*k Are We? He told me that if I insist on seeing a marginal hand to ask my self that Fuquai question immediately after the flop and if I'm 'lost' (going to lose) with not enough outs, GET OUT OF THE HAND.
This has tighhtened up both my cash and tournament game so much, that I have begun winning consistently, online. I haven't been back to Vegas since we began our lessons, so I can only use the advice online, but it does seem to be working. In short, GET OUT OF A HAND IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WIN. And the bluffing? the one who has you beat is the one who is doing the calling, letting you do his betting for him; in essence burying yourself. Slow, down, ask yourself what better hands are there out there than yours? If there are and you can't improve to beat that better hand, then fold. If your tournament life depends on it, don't be a hotshot.
I've played online poker regularly since August 2005. And for almost all of that time I've only had sporadic success. Mostly a huge losing career. But, occasionally a huge win here and there. Very frustrating.
I moved to Vegas and just before coming back east, one of my poker coaches gave me a hint about my cash game, which was $4-8 limit. He told me a 'story' about Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Johnny had a skit about the fictional Fuquai tribe. They would get lost I guess, somewhere in the audience or on the set, and someone would ask, "Where the Fuquai" As in Where the Fu*k Are We? He told me that if I insist on seeing a marginal hand to ask my self that Fuquai question immediately after the flop and if I'm 'lost' (going to lose) with not enough outs, GET OUT OF THE HAND.
This has tighhtened up both my cash and tournament game so much, that I have begun winning consistently, online. I haven't been back to Vegas since we began our lessons, so I can only use the advice online, but it does seem to be working. In short, GET OUT OF A HAND IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO WIN. And the bluffing? the one who has you beat is the one who is doing the calling, letting you do his betting for him; in essence burying yourself. Slow, down, ask yourself what better hands are there out there than yours? If there are and you can't improve to beat that better hand, then fold. If your tournament life depends on it, don't be a hotshot.