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Confidence can Kill in Poker

Confidence can Kill in Poker   Home Best online poker games on Launchpoker.com DutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianSpanish Search this site: HomeNewsPoker RoomsPoker RulesPoker Tips Holdem RulesHoldem StrategyHoldem TipsTournamentsWSOP Confidence can Kill in Poker Published by Brian Cherry on Sep 15, 2010 confidence

Today’s poker tips are about confidence and what it can do for poker players during hands of Texas Holdem. To be completely honest, while confidence is a wonderful thing, whether you are playing live poker or online poker, confidence can kill you. To be more specific, misplaced confidence can whittle a poker players bankroll down to nothing extremely fast.

There is nothing wrong with poker players having a healthy sense of self worth, but Texas Holdem is not like football, or most physical sports. These sports are muscle against muscle, speed against speed, agility against agility, etc. Confidence in one’s self is mandatory in these cases. Poker players playing live poker, online poker, or Texas holdem under just about any condition will find themselves facing many more x-factors than the aforementioned athletes. If you are a linebacker, you are going to care whether or not the running back to run a 4.3 forty, if you are in an online poker room or playing live poker at a casino, the deck won’t care about a poker players pedigree, their accomplishments, or what they think they can do during a Texas Holdem game. It will still stubbornly deal you bad hole cards. This is where, from a poker tips perspective, confidence can get you in trouble. Too many poker players get dealt bad cards and believe by the sheer power of their personal awesomeness, they can thread the needle and still win. This may work occasionally, but an over confident player who tries to play too often with bad cards eventually gets figured out by their opponents, and winds up losing money.

Where confidence for the Texas Holdem player should be is in their ability to read other players. This is obviously easier in live poker then it is when playing online poker, but the ability to read folks in cyberspace is something that can be learned, but those are poker tips for another day. While confidence can help the live poker and online poker player when it comes down to a decision about whether or not you perceive an opponent is bluffing, poker players who are more introspective about their game and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate their game will be more successful in the long run. A player who thinks they have reached their top form, and stop developing are headed for a fall.

This is just drive-by poker tips that have no real world examples, anyone who has watched the decline of Phil Hellmuth over the past few years will see what can happen to a player who thinks too much of themselves. He is a name in the sport because of his past, but he is no longer truly relevant as a competitor, and is not considered a threat to win any major titles. If Phil Hellmuth’s ego and over confidence can take a champion of his caliber to the land of mediocrity, it can happen to anyone.

That is the poker tips for today.

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New poker blind timer – Sound volume and Saving


There’s a new version of PokerDIY Tourney Manager in town.

You can now control each sound effect and speech bite (yes, PTM announces the blinds and tells you what’s going on) as well as a couple of other cool new features.

PTM also saves the last used layout backgrounds and tourney configuration (Color-ups, addons, rebuys) etc. so you don’t have to enter it each time.

Enhancements

Volume control for each sound effect/speech biteAuto-save configuration on exit Color-up support at blind/break levelPause blind timer at end of blindsLoads of other tweaks!

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Check out the release notes here and be sure to vote on the features you want to see in the next version!

If you have not used PTM, try it at your next home poker game (it’s free, easy to use and the best darn chip calculator/poker blind timer out there that runs on Windows, Macs and Windows Phone 7).


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Things to Remember when Playing Poker

Things to Remember when Playing Poker   Home Best online poker games on Launchpoker.com DutchEnglishFrenchGermanItalianSpanish Search this site: HomeNewsPoker RoomsPoker RulesPoker Tips Holdem RulesHoldem StrategyHoldem TipsTournamentsWSOP Things to Remember when Playing Poker Published by Brian Cherry on May 17, 2010

Poker is a sport that is not only unique in the universe of table games, but is unique to the casino culture as well. With that in mind, there are a few things you should remember when entering a casino and sitting down to play Texas Hold’em, Omaha poker, or any other variation of the game.
1.First of all, when playing poker the house is cut completely out of the competitive mix. Unlike Blackjack and other table game, the odds are not skewed in favor of the house and your only worry is the rest of the opponents at the table. While this may not give a poker player a competitive advantage, it does give gambling enthusiasts a reason to give up other games in favor of poker.
2.At many casinos the drinks are free to poker players (and everyone else). Alcohol dulls the senses and can have a negative impact on your game. Players should avoid making drinking an integral part of their game. Just because a waitress is willing to fetch you a drink, it doesn’t mean you have to take it.
3.Playing poker in a casino is much different than playing online poker. One of the biggest differences is the lack of turnover at the tables. This means they group you start playing with will be largely intact several hours later. Players in a casino are going to have to learn to change their game up within a long session. If not, your opponents will figure you out.
4.Finally, online players are used to a hyper-aggressive environment. This is not the style that dominates most casino poker tables. Aggressive play may bring short term success, but those who do not tighten up will wind up giving away all their chips.
Those are just a few poker tips to remember when entering a casino to play some Texas Hold’em.

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