Topic: Being unpredictable - page 11. (Read 5353 times)

Well playing gambling or even whatever kind of play it is be it card, dice, or casino maybe there have some of the rules that must follow but i will agree in the fact that a player should enjoy the game because one of the reason why you are playing or gambling was to entertain yourself right. Though, tricks and tips can be provided by other people but at the ened of the day its you who will handle it, sometimes those tips and tricks was being forgotten while on game because along the way you learned your own kind of tricks.

This must be the first thing, when starting! Play for fun, without the stress of winning or losing.

Therefore, one should start with a low investment or even on free platforms.
To evolve, and then gradually start to risk more, entering more serious games.
But then, you have to be willing to lose. Because in the beginning, it is more likely to lose than to win. Unless you're a genius.

You wouldnt feel the very essence of the game if you are just trying to force out yourself on following into something.I agree that you must
enjoy the game rather than a stressful one because you do persevere to win but well this is the main goal on why we do gambler on which
we do aim to make money but dont forget the very essence that we do really need to enjoy and be comfortable no matter what kind
of method or ways that you are trying to make use.

Why need tips and tricks if you already know the basics of playing poker?

Just play on your usual, it's much comfortable. And it's not something you are competing with strangers, it's your friends.

Enjoy the game, that's it.

Yup. That's really happening for poker players, they're adapting what's in their hands, good or bad hands, they can work with it. And that depends to the scaring factor that they can bring to their opponents.
Bluffing and sometimes you do, sometimes you're serious. That's a common strategy that everybody does.

Tomorrow, together with other 7 friends, I will be playing in a poker evening session (covid free) since I do not even remember when was the last time! Time to apply what were the most interesting tips and tricks you guys shared in this thread! 
Wish me good luck 

Faking the emotions in the poker game sometimes is hard because if we meet a pro poker player, they will somehow know if we are fake out or really do not have a good card. I can fake the emotions but that is not for playing poker game because I can not play that game

We can feel confident if we have a good card, but we do not know if the other player has a good card. Playing poker will not just depend on how we can pretend to have a good card, but it also depends on how we can bluff the opponent.

Yeah right, there are people who have it. they are naturally born having a poker face and it's not a problem to hide their feelings.
It's an advantage since they don't need to practice anything, having this inside you can accumulate more hardship to your opponents.
They needed to check it out it what's your next move.
If you don't have it, you need to practice and keep trying to do your best in order compete with those who have it naturally.

If you are born with a poker face that solves your problem but if you are not, you are going to need to practice a lot, there are people who are really good at making or creating a poker face because they dedicated years to have zero emotion and to look naturally at having a poker face, you can do that also if you dedicated yourself to being a poker face.

Another thing that must not be forgotten is that the player must be able to adapt during the course of a match.
At first you may have a bad (or even apparently good) hand, but as the cards come out, a bad hand can become interesting or stop being a good hand.
So the player has to adapt his strategy. And you have to do this, so that the opponents do not realize if you have a good or bad hand during the match.

I'm not a pro in playing these poker games,  but I do think that anyone can fake out their emotions when playing to try to mislead the other players. It depends probably on the personality of the player if he can do that. It always won't be easy to predict someone's gameplay if he's making fool of the situation and mislead other players through his reactions/emotions. I somehow can do that sometimes lol.

You are lucky if you have a poker face but it's still go down on your preparation and practice, I think doing Yoga can achieve your goal of having no expression or feeling at all, it's hard to suppress your expression if you are winning it takes a lot of practice to display a poker face, but it's a must if your competitor have no idea what's behind your face, so practice a lot.

Practice is the way to do that so that the opponents won't be able to track your style. It's the way of other players to be unpredictable and it's not just happening within a single timeframe but it takes a lot of time before they master it or at least near perfect it.
From the emotions, their playing style, moves and other noticeable actions that can be seen by the opponents.

This practiced needs a lots of time and possible lots of money to spent, knowing your opponents and trying your emotion being take care.

There are lots of well experienced gamblers who can easily track you down and use each emotions from you to read up what's inside you, those learnings are very important to improved your chances of countering them and make them failed each time they attempt to go against your call.

Time consuming but very rewarding once you done it in the right manners,.

I would like to mention that successful poker players try to leave as little as possible to chance. Instead of playing randomly, they do so by following a set schedule. Why not use an online calendar or Excel spreadsheet to schedule and note down your playing and study hours?
Remember not to overdo it and save time for other activities as well. Playing too much can cause burnout, which in turn causes you to make poor decisions at the table.
When opening a business, it is normal to make projections about how it might work. Although this should apply to a poker career as well, there are so many players who skip this step.
Another important aspect is bankroll management, want an example? A player should not participate in a cash game whose buy-in is not at least 25 times lower than his bankroll: if such a player wants to participate in a cash game whose buy-in is $50, his bankroll should be at least $1,250. A player who participates in a tournament should never invest more than 2% of his bankroll in the buy-in. This attitude may seem too conservative, but it is very important not to underestimate the weight of variance in poker. In cash games, even experienced players may not win for more than 10 buy-ins, in tournaments such negative series may be even longer. The management of our bankroll must be designed to allow us to survive even in conditions of prolonged heavy losses.
Sun Tzu could be your friend in that.

This is sometimes the problem for less experienced players, not being able to adapt their game to the circumstances of the table and their opponents.
To have this ability you have to play a lot, and maybe even lose many times. Play and watch others play.

Whether we like it or not, we all have a style, even with its possible variations. Therefore, we have to train this style, to be able to adapt it to the situations of the table, and in turn not to create clear patterns for the opponents.

One thing to remember as well is that we also need to mix our style depending on the kind of table in which we are, we do not play against computers but other players and the table dynamics are going to be different in each game, if we see a table that is full of loose players that play many hands then tightening our style makes sense as you do not want to to play against those people unless your hand is rock solid, an if the table is composed mostly of tight players then you should adjust and become more loose, this way you can steal the blinds over and over again.

That's actually the plan, to lose but you don't intend that to happen to have a losing streak. It's like an icebreaker for that guy if ever he's really wanting to lose to confuse.
I haven't heard about that GTO strategy you've said, I'll do a search regarding it.

You can be easy to read if you keep on repeating whatever you are doing or follow certain pattern. In poker, you have to be unpredictable by playing your opponent. If you keep on folding when you have a bad hand, you become very predictable when you have a good hand. When you keep on folding when the cards flop just because you don't have good combination, then people will know when you make a move, you have a very good pair/combination. You should be very random. Play bad hands! You can also achieve this through bluffs! And try to call peoples bluff sometimes. When they see you fold every time they bluff, they can take a very good advantage of you.

The problem I see here is that we need to play sub optimal just to stir up our pattern. So while this might make us unpredictable it will also make us lose money if we don't play optimal in the long run. Poker games can be fully analysed with Solvers. So for any given hand there is a GTO (Game Theory Optimal) perfect strategy which good poker players use. Most professional poker players will make small adjustments but stick close to the optimal strategy.