The most important thing for a professional poker player to have is discipline. If you cannot move down in limits when you are losing, you do not have the discipline that is needed to be a professional poker player.
Chris Ferguson – 05/2008 – in Card Player
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: bad players, discipline, Ferguson
Convince yourself that you are neither lucky or unlucky. Luck is a label that can only be applied in the past tense, never in the future. The odds of any random event occurring are precisely those dictated be the laws of probablility. If you miss ten flush draws in a row, then the odds of [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Most people – especially younger ones – have little experience with diverse people. They live in relatively homogenous towns and neighborhoods and usually relate to people who are fairly similar to themselves.
In online and casino poker games, you have to play with whomever sits down. You must compete against very different kinds of people: aggressive [...]
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: adaptation, learning, Schoonmaker, Sklansky
It’s no coincidence that Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey and a lot these really, really top players are in excellent physical condition. They’re in great shape, they eat healthily and I’m sure many of them have mental coaches, sparring partners of some kind. [..] I think in the next three to four years the players that [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: Antonius, good players, Hougaard, Ivey, sport
They say that information is power; in poker, it’s cash, just cash.
John Vorhaus – 03/2008 – in Card Player
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: information, money, Vorhaus
My game is way too deep for anyone to figure out. The minute that I start thinking that they are figuring me out I’ve got so many different gears and so many different plays in my no-limit heads-up book that they are going to have to play like a million hands against me. They’re never [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: ego, good players, heads-up, Schwartz
Make sure to think outside the box. It’s not enough to simply memorize how to play certain hands, it’s important to understand why the hand should be played that way. Poker is a beautiful game with so many variables, you can’t play it with a defined set of rules as you would in blackjack. Don’t [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: creativity, learning, Negreanu
I believe the single most important decision in any form of poker is game selection; determining which cards to enter a hand with runs a close second.
Lou Krieger – in Lou Krieger Online
Categories: Poker Strategy
The player I fear the most doesn’t have a name. He is the type of player that you see especially in Europe. They are not afraid to lose. They don’t value their chips, they don’t value their money. They f*** don’t care. When I’m in a pot, I care. I worry about risks. But they [...]
Categories: Poker Players