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Poker strategic ConsiderationsThis section discusses strategic considerations. Inter-woven through this discussion are what I call "life analogies," which are a series of behavioral examples from life that illustrate poker concepts. Dan Kimberg in his book Serious Poker, makes the astute observation that while most sports professionals believe their sport is a metaphor for life, "poker players believe the converse-that life is a metaphor for poker." It helps to first consider why there is no magic formula for winning at poker. Imagine a formula exists that does win at poker. A formula means a pre-determined set of actions for all situations encountered. In situation 1, do A, in situation 2, do B, and so on. Once the formula is known, it would immediately become useless because poker is a zero-sum game. One person's 10ss is another one's gain. If everybody plays the exact same way, over time the cards are evenly distributed so all the situations encountered become equally distributed. The result is that no one has an advantage, money flows back and forth without accumulating for any one person.
To win at poker, your actions must be different from the other players, different in a way that gives you the edge. Clearly, a winning poker strategy must be a dynamic one -that is, a strategy that continually adjusts to conditions. The strategy outlined is based on the five decision factors: your cards, position, cost, number of players, and opponents' playing style, combined with a classification of game conditions that are described next. The premise of the strategy is that the weight given to each decision factor depends on the game conditions. For example, your position under some game conditions is not an important factor. In a different set of game conditions position becomes the most important factor. To classify game conditions, four extreme cases are identified and the strategic considerations appropriate for each discussed. A given poker game usually does not precisely match one of the extremes, but often a game will have enough elements of one of the extreme cases that knowing what to do in the extreme, provides a good strategic starting point. | Online Poker Software ProvidersBetSoft PokerMicroGaming PokerNetEnt PokerPlaytech PokerPlay’n Go PokerRTG PokerWMS PokerPlayson PokerNYX PokerEndorphina PokeriSoftBet Poker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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