To play poker, we need luck, aggressiveness, knowledge... what else?
Dimidrol2
Visionary
Platinum Level
A lot of things are stress resistance, discipline, the ability to see the behavior of players at the tables, and most importantly, the time you will spend on poker. This game is not as simple as it seems and anyone who wants to play it in any case spends a lot of time on it.
Skot_Gy
Visionary
Platinum Level
The 3 attributes you said are dominant for active-aggressive players, but there are other types too.
For a more passive player, patience, composure and systematic play, are equal in importance to those you said
For a more passive player, patience, composure and systematic play, are equal in importance to those you said
jonaselloco
Legend
Platinum Level
1) Learning
The beginning poker player usually makes a big mistake.
If you have luck in your favor and you win, for example, a freeroll, you think you have God holding hands, and that is the big mistake.
They start playing cash and that's where it all falls apart.
You must constantly learn. Videos, streemers, practice, tutorials, courses, everything works for the game
2) Control of emotions
Another serious mistake that many players have is that they are in a tournament, they have very good cards in their hand, but an opponent goes all-in and they do not take into account that their opponent may have a better hand than them and they discard the tournament and throw him out. blame bad luck.
I give you an easy example. You openraise from UTG with AQs which is a great hand, and you have 2 opponents behind you with bigger stacks than you and they go all-in too. You are comfortably installed in position 40 of an MTT where the bubble pays position 150. Would you also call the allin??? I already tell you no and I fold. But a lot of players I've seen them do it and find themselves with hands like AA QQ KK AKs behind and 10 times at most they can win that hand once.
For this reason it is very important to control emotions.
3) Bankroll management
Like if you have a company, you can't get good results if you don't manage the administration of it, in poker it happens the same way.
If you do not have a good bankroll management it is impossible to play calmly and expect good results.
It would be the same as going to the casino one day to see if you can save your company with roulette.
Every dollar you have is a bullet. And you have to have as many bullets as possible to get into the MTTs and get the achievements. There you must be patient, because you will not always achieve the ITM, but there are situations of 3 or 4 MTT that you enter among the 1st 20 positions and the situation varies in your favor. Not to mention if you make final tables in the top 3 places.
4) Patience
Nothing in life is achieved immediately, even less if you seriously dedicate yourself to playing poker.
At least when I started I made the same mistake like everyone else. I considered that playing cash was the immediate way to capitalize.
With the passage of time, and learning from a great friend especially from Cardschat, I began to see that my profitability was related to MTT and SnG to a lesser extent.
I played cash, won and lost and never progressed. When I began to understand that in the MTT or Sng I regularly enter the ITM, I began to realize that the profitability in me was in playing these scenarios. And patience here plays a fundamental factor.
Because really in cash games you can speed up your bankroll, but in MTTs time is of the essence so I try to calmly take the necessary time to play every day.
5) Focus
This is referred to knowing very well what you want to do with poker.
I play for fun???
I play to have some extra income that can improve my life status???
I want to be a semi-professional player and I will take part of my free time to do it???
I want poker to be my profession???
All this when you start playing you must understand it perfectly.
That way it may be that you take it at first as a hobby, like playing any fun game.
But it can happen that with the passage of time, you understand that you have a certain facility to do it, that you learn quickly, and that you begin to be successful.
In other words, from the first question, you go on to the next question, and so on.
6) Do not become a gambler
When I refer to the term gambler, which means player, I mean the bettor who does it solely for the addiction to gambling.
For that, the casino in all its variants is better.
Although there are players, and many, who take poker as a game of chance.
You have many players at cash tables and even at MTT who play poker as if they were playing a slot.
They have 2 cards in their hand and they go all-in. If the card slot showdown shot your sequence, then you're happy.
This type of game, like all games of chance, leads you to ruin in the short or long term.
You can have one, two or more lucky hands. But you can't have 1000 continuous lucky hands.
7) Practice
This is undoubtedly an essential tool. This is where it could be said that MTT could be taken as a sport. Enb definitive is a competition in which you want to win and be the first.
I mean, for example. A swimmer in his pool can achieve all the records that have been and will be, but for this he must go to a competition and prove it to many factors. Another climate, anxiety, nerves, people in the stands, another scenario that is not the tranquility of the pool at your club. And well, in that scenario, he must demonstrate it.
That's why I have a lot of respect for players who have won wsop bracelets or other important MTTs. Because it was certainly not a coincidence. You may not like Phil Hellmuth's ways, but the man commands respect with his 14 bracelet wins, including the World Series.
Practice gives you the power to analyze many situations of your own game and the game of your opponents. See in which situations certain hands are given and be able to take advantage of those references, so that when the same hand occurs to you, you know how to act.
Also analyze the hands especially that you lose. Why did I lose??? I had bad luck??? played wrong??? Should I have played differently? I should have expected to enter prizes??? etc
8) Humility
I remember a long time ago that I saw on TV the tables where pokerstars gave a recreational player the chance to play with a stack against Pro players and if at a certain time of play this player exceeded the initial stack, they gave him the difference in cash.
I also remember that while the Pros were having fun at the table, the recreational player gave them quite a few beatings and these Pros ended up with a grim face.
There are many videos of this on Youtube.
Always I at least prefer that at a table they do not call me arrogant, but that they respect me for my humility.
That's why I often say that you have to have a certain amount of respect for the players that you see can be passive, because you don't know in what situation they can tip a hand that harms you too much in an MTT, or in cash.
Well brother, these are some of the things that at least I consider very important to be a good poker player and to be successful in the game.
Maybe I forget something, but hey, the rest of the classmates will also add things that we will see and analyze.
Greetings and have a nice day
The beginning poker player usually makes a big mistake.
If you have luck in your favor and you win, for example, a freeroll, you think you have God holding hands, and that is the big mistake.
They start playing cash and that's where it all falls apart.
You must constantly learn. Videos, streemers, practice, tutorials, courses, everything works for the game
2) Control of emotions
Another serious mistake that many players have is that they are in a tournament, they have very good cards in their hand, but an opponent goes all-in and they do not take into account that their opponent may have a better hand than them and they discard the tournament and throw him out. blame bad luck.
I give you an easy example. You openraise from UTG with AQs which is a great hand, and you have 2 opponents behind you with bigger stacks than you and they go all-in too. You are comfortably installed in position 40 of an MTT where the bubble pays position 150. Would you also call the allin??? I already tell you no and I fold. But a lot of players I've seen them do it and find themselves with hands like AA QQ KK AKs behind and 10 times at most they can win that hand once.
For this reason it is very important to control emotions.
3) Bankroll management
Like if you have a company, you can't get good results if you don't manage the administration of it, in poker it happens the same way.
If you do not have a good bankroll management it is impossible to play calmly and expect good results.
It would be the same as going to the casino one day to see if you can save your company with roulette.
Every dollar you have is a bullet. And you have to have as many bullets as possible to get into the MTTs and get the achievements. There you must be patient, because you will not always achieve the ITM, but there are situations of 3 or 4 MTT that you enter among the 1st 20 positions and the situation varies in your favor. Not to mention if you make final tables in the top 3 places.
4) Patience
Nothing in life is achieved immediately, even less if you seriously dedicate yourself to playing poker.
At least when I started I made the same mistake like everyone else. I considered that playing cash was the immediate way to capitalize.
With the passage of time, and learning from a great friend especially from Cardschat, I began to see that my profitability was related to MTT and SnG to a lesser extent.
I played cash, won and lost and never progressed. When I began to understand that in the MTT or Sng I regularly enter the ITM, I began to realize that the profitability in me was in playing these scenarios. And patience here plays a fundamental factor.
Because really in cash games you can speed up your bankroll, but in MTTs time is of the essence so I try to calmly take the necessary time to play every day.
5) Focus
This is referred to knowing very well what you want to do with poker.
I play for fun???
I play to have some extra income that can improve my life status???
I want to be a semi-professional player and I will take part of my free time to do it???
I want poker to be my profession???
All this when you start playing you must understand it perfectly.
That way it may be that you take it at first as a hobby, like playing any fun game.
But it can happen that with the passage of time, you understand that you have a certain facility to do it, that you learn quickly, and that you begin to be successful.
In other words, from the first question, you go on to the next question, and so on.
6) Do not become a gambler
When I refer to the term gambler, which means player, I mean the bettor who does it solely for the addiction to gambling.
For that, the casino in all its variants is better.
Although there are players, and many, who take poker as a game of chance.
You have many players at cash tables and even at MTT who play poker as if they were playing a slot.
They have 2 cards in their hand and they go all-in. If the card slot showdown shot your sequence, then you're happy.
This type of game, like all games of chance, leads you to ruin in the short or long term.
You can have one, two or more lucky hands. But you can't have 1000 continuous lucky hands.
7) Practice
This is undoubtedly an essential tool. This is where it could be said that MTT could be taken as a sport. Enb definitive is a competition in which you want to win and be the first.
I mean, for example. A swimmer in his pool can achieve all the records that have been and will be, but for this he must go to a competition and prove it to many factors. Another climate, anxiety, nerves, people in the stands, another scenario that is not the tranquility of the pool at your club. And well, in that scenario, he must demonstrate it.
That's why I have a lot of respect for players who have won wsop bracelets or other important MTTs. Because it was certainly not a coincidence. You may not like Phil Hellmuth's ways, but the man commands respect with his 14 bracelet wins, including the World Series.
Practice gives you the power to analyze many situations of your own game and the game of your opponents. See in which situations certain hands are given and be able to take advantage of those references, so that when the same hand occurs to you, you know how to act.
Also analyze the hands especially that you lose. Why did I lose??? I had bad luck??? played wrong??? Should I have played differently? I should have expected to enter prizes??? etc
8) Humility
I remember a long time ago that I saw on TV the tables where pokerstars gave a recreational player the chance to play with a stack against Pro players and if at a certain time of play this player exceeded the initial stack, they gave him the difference in cash.
I also remember that while the Pros were having fun at the table, the recreational player gave them quite a few beatings and these Pros ended up with a grim face.
There are many videos of this on Youtube.
Always I at least prefer that at a table they do not call me arrogant, but that they respect me for my humility.
That's why I often say that you have to have a certain amount of respect for the players that you see can be passive, because you don't know in what situation they can tip a hand that harms you too much in an MTT, or in cash.
Well brother, these are some of the things that at least I consider very important to be a good poker player and to be successful in the game.
Maybe I forget something, but hey, the rest of the classmates will also add things that we will see and analyze.
Greetings and have a nice day