Well, I'm pretty much stuck with 1 tabling right now. I feel it's really curing my biggest problem in poker, which has been not taking all factors into consideration. With only one table open, I'm not missing players moves, not rushing decisions, and feel like I can grind a solid session. Of course I've also been mixing in some HU, and this is pretty much always a reading game. However, I am applying those reads a lot more now. I honestly feel like I'm taking a lot of factors into consideration when making calls or raises now and even if my poker brain is still in it's infancy, I feel like at least I'm using the grey matter in my skull to play poker now, rather than looking at my cards and making bad calls/horrible bluffs.
So some things I've been paying attention to:
1. How often are people bluffing? You see it sometimes, but even if they aren't showing down bluffs, they can be betting too often to be always good hands.
2. Make notes on how they played different hand types like good one pairs, bad one pairs, two pairs, monsters, bad draws (no showdown value), good draws, combo draws.
3. What they call with pre flop? Apart from PP's and SC's in position, what other things do they show up with.
4. What leaks do they have? Always note the badly played hands, like not pot controlling, or calling gutshots, or calling a shove with top pair when an obvious draw hits etc.
5. Bet sizing. Not a bad tool, but especially on rivers, where the pot is at it's biggest, bet sizing can tell a lot about a hand, but everyone is different in how they bluff/value bet/blocker bet hands on the turn or river.
So it's working out so far, and the idea is to make it second nature of course. Once you know a players, and know how to play against those players, well poker is really pretty easy I'd say :) OK, long way to go.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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