Being Poker Pro - part 1
Going from rookie to professional level is a lengthy learning process. What's more is that this learning process never ends. As one famous poker pro player once put it: "If you get up from the table and realize that you haven't learned anything new in the session that just concluded, you probably didn't do a good enough job".
As a beginner, one needs to realize that Poker Texas Holdem is a very deceiving game. On the surface, for the superficial onlooker it may seem simple, however, once you begin playing and thus delving ever deeper into its intricacies, you will realize that it's everything but that.
New players always play too many poker games and poker hands, and they always let luck muscle in on whatever they are doing. The first revelation that a rookie player has is usually when he realizes that he plays too many hands, and every now and then he needs to fold a few of them, to save on his stack. For most beginners this means they will study starting-hand charts and begin to exercise starting hand selection. For many, this will also mean that they will slowly turn into the tight-weak players sharks are especially fond of feeding on. Being weak-tight means that our rookies are practically married to their cards, despite the fact that they have no knowledge of pot odds, and the mathematical system that tells them when to fold a hand, when to call and when to bet.
While starting hand selection is good, by itself it will never be able to significantly improve anyones game, especially not if it's abused by rookies.
As they struggle on, rookies will sooner or later realize that this game is not about taking down spectacularly big pots by risking their entire stack time and time again. They soon begin to suspect that the driving force behind successful poker is to be sought somewhere else. This is the stage that beginners need to pick up poker books and read. They now understand enough of the game to get with the flow of the lingo easily, and to understand a few concepts. Mind you that because it takes an additional effort and ambition on the part of the rookie, this stage is the most selective one. The majority of casual players will never get past it...
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