Why is poker beatable

As for Trump give me a break, we have a president who brags about not paying taxes in his books in his past, way to lead by example. The hardest think about poker nowdays,especially live is the frustration caused by watching bad regs and fish crushing the game short term when they are on a heater while you are having an awfull month either being card dead or getting sucked out hand after hand.

So you may enter tilt mode and spew monkey mode. Been there done that And that is what keeps most of the better players realize their true winrate. There isnt an aboundance of money on poker anymore like the old days. So no winning player has the luxury to spew due to tilt. No rich fish is gonna compensate you for your losses anytime soon. Yup I agree with you that the mental game is more important than ever today. You simply can't afford to tilt away a bunch of money anymore.

One comment about RedBaron, Fedor Holz and other names mentioned in the blog. Please remember that these guys are exceptionally talented players. The odds are super high that you will never, ever be nearly as good as they are no matter how hard you work. It is like not all the people can become as good as Lionel Messi in football or Sidney Crosby in ice hockey.

I still believe that it is very likely that if you work hard enough you will be a winning player in NL10 or NL20, and if you are more talented than average players, maybe even higher. One of the reason for me start with poker is, I look at people I know that play poker, never read a poker book or video. I even know pro players living on it, that have read like one poker book.

I thinking to myself, can these guys still make money on it and never put any time aside for the off poker table work, then it still money to be earned. On top of that telling me how hard with out them self doing any kind off off table work it is to learn play poker so you make profit, like I expect it to be easy.

I have an education in software engineering, I had 8 MS certification. If I stack the books I had to read to get this 8 Ms certifications they would reach higher then my length. That is hard. And life is hard as it is, why should poker be different. I fell some of the people that made tons on money to easy the golden days of poker, they bitching now, because they had it to easy then.

Like you say to make money on poker now to live on it you need off table work, book, videos, read other poker player bloog etc, study your self and your opponents, I add this to your line, use some of great software that is able for you now and then need to play, play, play. Play, play, play is still what many only do and not only fishes, so do the homework also like for me read your blogs and books and some others poker players stuff.

I see still good profit to be made, still to many lazy poker player out there. Which is GOOD!!! Thanks for the comment BadMoe. I agree that reading books, watching videos etc. Some people just learn through pure experience. This is largely what I did because 10 years ago, none of these learning tools even existed.

From my experience and talking to others I believe live poker is significantly easier to beat than online. If you compare live to online. Regards paul. True, every word is true.

Even though I don't take the game so seriously like you do. I play mostly for the thrill of the game, for its remarkable merge of psychology and logic. However, your logical chain of reasoning, scrupulous analysis of every facet of the game is very congenial to me. Way to go.

Good luck, Nathan! Nathan what do you think about the new Powerup game launched by Pokerstars? It does attract significantly more new players but there are no strategies for it Guys, seriously, if you can please move to poker houses a house shared by other poker players where the people know what they are doing. I have never done it with poker, but I have this kind of experience with Starcraft 1 when I was fifthteen.

I had a friend who was already really good at the game among the best players of my country. This was around that time when the pro scene was coming to surface from Korea. Anyways, I loved that game a lot, but I could not afford playing too much at my home the internet was expensive back then. My friend got one of the first ADSL connections at that time, and when he got two computers in his house, I was able to play with him and against him.

I was really bad player but I knew the basics and at first my friend crushed me every time. But then, I spent almost all my free time in my friends house playing like 12 hours in a day against him and sometimes with him against other players in battle. He was guiding and teaching me how to improve and what I was doing wrong.

This worked to me so well in Starcraft, that I see no reason why it would not work in poker as well or do you think its just a coinsidence that Elky, the sc legend is a great poker player too?

Unfortunately I dont know personally any good poker players to learn from, but I will definetly use the opportunity if it comes! It is just so helpful when there are people watching your back, because this game can make tricks to your mind so you dont know if you are doing things right or not. It will give you the clear direction where to go, and you dont have to second guess yourself you are rightfully so, because you know you are making lot of mistakes doing right now if you are not that good yet.

Getting a coach is also good. If you want to get really far in this game, I guess you must hire a coach at some point if you are not like a reincarnation of Stu Ungar. I guess almost all the top pros of today have been coached by other pros at some point of their careers.

Bluffing is one of the worst ideas at a poker table with bad but loose players. This type of opponent will call you down with a wide range of poker hands. Bluffing is an art that needs to be mastered and one that might backfire against players weaker than yourself.

You should stick to betting your best hands and keeping a close eye on the opponents. The moment they make a mistake, you should be ready to pounce on it. These players are more prone to folding.

They will often fold, even with a decent hand that they should look you up with. If you are just betting big without a real plan in place, even a weak-tight player might smell the rat and look you up. It also means that those loose players will be even more eager to look you up with all sorts of nonsense holdings. Your table image is always important, but it's particularly important at a table full of weak players because they'll allow their image of you to influence their decisions much more than they should.

When you identify this kind of a player, you need to try and get involved with them with your very strong hands. The important thing here is that you need to be able to stand your ground when push comes to shove. As long as you have good bankroll management and your reads are correct, looking up these players with reasonably strong hands will be massively profitable. Playing against weaker opponents can sometimes be trickier than playing against pros.

Against good poker players, you'll know you need to bring your A-game to win. When you play against bad opponents, you might underestimate them, which can put you in bad spots.

But, even against weak players, you need to make sure your bluffs make sense. This has always been the nature of the poker game, and generally, when there is monetary advantage involved, people still tend to play better as well.

But, there are certain things that you should always remember when playing poker online. Poker is not a secret scheme that you can use to get rich in a matter of days. In fact, it takes months and years of practice to reach a respectable stage. Moreover, the online poker playing field has gotten more mature over time than what it was ten to fifteen years ago.

Therefore, being realistic about your expectations is what matters the most. Nowadays, players are much more competitive and various other factors that made the game a lot more gritty than earlier times.

One of the significant parts of how you can beat online poker is by using the correct strategy for your needs. Statistics say that almost 90 percent of all poker players focus on this more than anything. The best strategy to play online poker these days is to be tight and aggressive in your move. This means that your approach should be highly selective of what hands you prefer to choose before the flop and always being aware of your current position in the poker table.