August Post to Enter Contest - Part #5 Poker Knowledge

Posts: 3301 · Posted: 29.07.2011, 23:36

COMMON POKER PLAYNG MISTAKES

PART # 5

Moving up limits to escape bad beats

This is one of the most common mistakes in poker. People get fed up with the bad beats entailed with playing lower limits, so they play higher limits, thinking it will somehow help them win.

Lower-stakes poker involves a lot of variance because people will play just about everything. However, with this variance comes higher expected value because your opponents make a lot of mistakes. Provided you can take advantage of their mistakes through skilled play, the common bad play at lower limits is to your advantage.
If you are losing because of bad luck, then that should even itself out with time. No person is "luckier" than another person in the long run; it all evens out.

If you are unable to defeat the lower-stakes players over time, then it is highly doubtful you will beat the higher-stakes players. You make money at poker because other people make mistakes. If players are making less mistakes, then you will make less money. You want people calling your raises with Q 5; it's as simple as that. Sure, they may win sometimes, but you come out much more ahead against people calling you with Q 5 than with K K. It may make you upset that they will win sometimes, but that's poker.

Posts: 3923 · Posted: 01.08.2011, 06:01

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COMMON POKER PLAYING MISTAKES

Mistake #5:
Moving up limits, trying to escape bad beats

This is one of the most common mistakes in poker. People get fed up with the bad beats entailed with playing lower limits, so they play higher limits, thinking it will somehow help them win.

Lower-stakes poker involves a lot of variance because people will play just about everything.
However, with this variance comes higher expected value because your opponents make a lot of mistakes.
I said, your opponents make more MISTAKES in lower stakes poker!

Provided you can take advantage of their mistakes through SKILLED play, the common bad play at lower limits is to your advantage.
If you are losing because of bad luck, then that should even itself out with time. No person is "luckier" than another person in the long run; it all evens out.

If you are unable to defeat the lower-stakes players over time, then it is highly doubtful you will beat the higher-stakes players.
You make money at poker because other people make mistakes. If players are making less mistakes, then you will make less money.

You want people calling your raises with Q 5; it's as simple as that. Sure, they may win sometimes, but you come out much more ahead against people calling you with Q 5 than with K K.
It may make you upset that they will win sometimes, but that's poker.

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