Easy Guide Free Poker Education To The Truth Behind The Most Important Poker Skill And A Simple Skill Improvement Exercise
In this NoPayPOKER.com free online poker instruction lesson we are revisiting a core poker skill originally covered in the Building a Bankroll course a while ago. It is a skill that is without a doubt the most important single skill in poker namely Patience.
With the rise of online poker many people who would have otherwise never played poker have got involved on the basis of the get rich quick teases made in the mass media.
The majority of this new breed of poker player have little in the way of poker skills and most, if asked, will say that poker is mostly down to luck. That’s a shame as what they don’t know is that by using some basic skills and common sense it is possible to win money at online poker consistently.
This is in fact good news for the skilled online poker player as it means you can win a lot of money from the 90% majority of bad ones! After all, to say that poker is mainly luck is clearly ridiculous, if it were so then how is it that we have so many well know and consistent poker professionals, many of whom make a good living from poker players with some of the best being multi-millionaires by virtue of poker game winnings? Precisely, if it were game of luck then that would be impossible, (we don’t get big names in the coin flipping game business do we now!) the conclusion clearly then is that poker is game that requires skills.
There are dozens of poker skills that can be isolated but the one that stands heads and shoulders above all the other is Patience. Without it you are doomed to fail no matter what other skills you may have.
So why don’t we start some poker instruction by example of the use and implementing patience.
Use of patience in poker tournament play.
Here you need to defend yourself against the players who fling their chips around with no care during the opening rounds of every game as if it were Bingo. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking they know something you don’t. They don’t!
Instead you must hold out for some premium cards. Sure you’ll have to fold some and lose a few chips as you wait but if you wait for the right moment then you’ll get a whole pile of chips later on from the chip throwers at the same time you knock them out (or rather, they knock themselves out!).
All you have to do is sit and wait for the dealer to push a couple of good cards to you. Just relax until then. I know that it’s hard to sit by and you feel you should be involved but trust me, winning money is lots more fun that losing and at the end of the day poker is all about money rather than playing a game and in any case winning money is pretty good fun!
Patience Developing Exercise (PDE)
Here is a simple exercise, and it produces the desired results though it is boring and time consuming (though less so that losing!)
Get into a free poker online freeroll. One with lots of players is best.
1) For the entirety of the game you’re only allowed to participate in a hand if you were dealt pocket aces or pocket kings.
2) No other pockets can be played.
3) And even if you have pocket Aces or Kings you cannot start a bet or put forth a raise.
4) If you do have AA or KK though you can call a bet.
5) Again, though, you cannot raise or initiate any betting.
6) Also, if you’re the Big Blind, and you do not hold aces or kings, you must fold; even when there may not have been a raise made against your big blind.
The PDE has helped thousands of players bring patience to the forefront of their skill sets.
When you use this in a game you will only be playing about 1% of the hands. AA and KK are each dealt to you approximately once in every 212 pockets. Yes that is boring I know! .
And I admit that this poker training article is a little boring as well but I would day, not as boring as being broke and, when you consider that this boring and rather invisible skill makes up over 50% of what it takes to win at poker I think you’ll agree the boredom of learning was worth it!
So if being patient is something you struggle with get into a poker free online freeroll today and try the PDE process.
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