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steve01991
Legend
Platinum Level
take notes on the players at your table, know how they bet, the cards will come to you eventually
pirateglenn
Legend
Bronze Level
Hi Batagliador,
Is has been said already but the game of patience in poker is almost the whole battle aside from your skill at betting, that said its worth noting not only the statistical side such as best starting hands as below.
https://www.cardschat.com/strategy/poker-starting-hands/
My advice is to look at your position on the table, where you can - get into cheap pots, sometimes its worth a call to peel a card if you have a hand like an open ended straight draw on a (rainbow board for example).
Mixing up your play is crucial as if you are deemed a tight player, this can be exploited later on if you come up against players who have played well against you - a lot of players pay over the odds to see a flop if holding a small pocket pair for example so as to set mine, its worth making them pay to see the flop for example and even with garbage hands, it can surprisingly yield results.
A great book i can recommend to you to read is one by Gus Hansen who has regularly mastered playing low value hands to some success - even for a novice or amateur player, this book really helped me when i started out playing as it shows useful tips and guidance on playing such hands.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2943754-every-hand-revealed
Good Luck to you at the tables!
Is has been said already but the game of patience in poker is almost the whole battle aside from your skill at betting, that said its worth noting not only the statistical side such as best starting hands as below.
https://www.cardschat.com/strategy/poker-starting-hands/
My advice is to look at your position on the table, where you can - get into cheap pots, sometimes its worth a call to peel a card if you have a hand like an open ended straight draw on a (rainbow board for example).
Mixing up your play is crucial as if you are deemed a tight player, this can be exploited later on if you come up against players who have played well against you - a lot of players pay over the odds to see a flop if holding a small pocket pair for example so as to set mine, its worth making them pay to see the flop for example and even with garbage hands, it can surprisingly yield results.
A great book i can recommend to you to read is one by Gus Hansen who has regularly mastered playing low value hands to some success - even for a novice or amateur player, this book really helped me when i started out playing as it shows useful tips and guidance on playing such hands.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2943754-every-hand-revealed
Good Luck to you at the tables!
RustyRed83
Legend
Platinum Level
Being card dead is probably the most frustrating thing in poker, folding for hours on end to the point of shoving any ace when you get it.
It is a good time to observe your opponents, picking up clues on how they play, signal out players you want to target when you do get playable hands, or target players that can be bluffed.
Stealing blinds with any two cards, there will come a point you are dripping chips if you keep folding, you must at least replenish your stack with blind stealing.
You are going to be folding all that trash, but other players at the table will notice you are not playing much, and think you are tight, playing only premiums, use this to your advantage, start 3-betting in spots against the players that will respect the bet.
Be patient and stay calm, most players at the table will run dead, most cannot handle it and bluff their chips away, don't be that guy..
It is a good time to observe your opponents, picking up clues on how they play, signal out players you want to target when you do get playable hands, or target players that can be bluffed.
Stealing blinds with any two cards, there will come a point you are dripping chips if you keep folding, you must at least replenish your stack with blind stealing.
You are going to be folding all that trash, but other players at the table will notice you are not playing much, and think you are tight, playing only premiums, use this to your advantage, start 3-betting in spots against the players that will respect the bet.
Be patient and stay calm, most players at the table will run dead, most cannot handle it and bluff their chips away, don't be that guy..
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wavetune
Legend
Bronze Level
with bad cards, you can only lose if you go into the hands, I've had 30-50 hands of bad and non-playable cards, you need to bluff, but this is not a very good idea in fact, and if the room gives you only bad cards, then nothing shines for you in this tournament, you need to understand this, because that as long as you wait for a good card, your stack will be small
CDNMAN 42
Legend
Platinum Level
Playing with bad cards in a tournament is the rule not the exception with me, especially on PS. My strategy which seems to work sometimes is to only play with starting cards that typically win 60% of the time...there is a Cardschat Chart displaying those hands...of course all play is dependent upon position, stack size, opponents trends and betting prior to your position....like I say it doesn't always work but more often than not..
Gallarado777
Legend
Loyaler
Leandro6803
Rock Star
Platinum Level
if you are going to play these types of hands I suggest you do this rarely, and when you are going to play these types of hands don't let it get to showdown and always make heavy bets.
Note: do not do this against a paying player.
Note: do not do this against a paying player.
Mogulkahn
Rock Star
Bronze Level
everything is simple - the fold is not a mistake.
but somethimes u need a bluf but not a just bluf with two any cards and any position no! Bluffing always wiil be smart.
dzsire
Legend
Platinum Level
Unfortunately, there are such tourneys.
I had such a series yesterday: 23 (as BB), 36 (as SB), 23 (as Dealer), then 3 9, 3 10.
It's quite hard to be patient when the others are getting three of a kind, flushes after flop...
But that's how PS is: 'there are equals and even more equals'...
RIP fair-play.
I had such a series yesterday: 23 (as BB), 36 (as SB), 23 (as Dealer), then 3 9, 3 10.
It's quite hard to be patient when the others are getting three of a kind, flushes after flop...
But that's how PS is: 'there are equals and even more equals'...
RIP fair-play.
thedarkman
Legend
Platinum Level
Fold, fold, fold!
D0nk3y Hunt3r
Visionary
Bronze Level
Even when you go all in with some crap you usually have around 30% to win.
What's more, even, when you don't hit a pair with your totally random holding by going to flop, you usually have something, some backdoor outdoor hiperdoor draw or something.
There are hardly situations where you are really card dead.
What's more, even, when you don't hit a pair with your totally random holding by going to flop, you usually have something, some backdoor outdoor hiperdoor draw or something.
There are hardly situations where you are really card dead.
