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Posted by: belladonna05 at November 14, 2007, 8:48 am

Topic: How to stay consistent Forum: Card Chat

Quote: Originally Posted by Schatzdog

I'm going to make the assumption that you're a cash game player. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The best piece of advice I've got for this was from Sklansky who basically said, look at your play as one continuous poker session. When this concept sinks in you'll find your play will be a bit more consistent with what you're trying to achieve. You'll lose that impulse to "make something happen". You'll have a wider perspective of your play.

Also, you're going to have down sessions even when you play great poker. That's the game. Forget about your equity curve and concentrate on making good poker decisions at the table.

Hope this helps.

Yes I love his theory of poker book and I always try to remember that advice, but sometimes its like I've lost my mind. I need to cut and paste that sentence about good poker and keep it on top of the cardroom and maybe lay off poker on pms week?

Quote: Originally Posted by Cheetah

belladonna05, try to automatically consider calling as the last option. It often is the least attractive.

If first to act, the first choice to consider should be bet, then fold, and then open-limp(or check).

If there is a bet already, calling is the strongest actions of all and should be done only with ery strong hands or when the odds are correct.

If you are callilng too much, you are probably not getting the right odds.

I am ecnlosing a small odds chart you can post on your monitor. I created it when I first started playing poker and it is still on my monitor. You can always consult it and make sure you are not making bad calls.

The Odds 1 column are the pot odds with one card to come. Say on the flop, the odds to hit your draw on the turn.

The Odds 2 column are the pot odds with two cards to come. Should be considered only if you or your opponent is all-in.

In NL you can of course call with smaller pot odds due to implied odds. Nevertheless, this table is the foundation. Don't call if you are too far. Hopefully this will help you to stay off your calling station mode as you will know that you cannot defeat the mathematics of expected alue.

Good luck.

Love the quick calculator, saves me doing the math in my head, thanks so much.

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