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FullTilt is rigged!

2011-06-06T07:54:00.001-07:00

This was a raise and reraise PF. This type of shit just happens way too much on FT, just way too much.

Here I raise PF, he reraises, I call and the rest is history.

Bankroll Management Buy Ins

2010-10-18T07:51:00.000-07:00

Bankroll Management Buy Ins

	PRO	Protected	UnProtected
NL Holdem Cash	45 Buy Ins	25 Buy Ins	15 Buy Ins
SnG	65 Entries	45 Entries	20 Entries
MTT	200 Entries	100 Entries	40 Entries
Limit Holdem Cash	550 Big Bets	400 Big Bets	200 Big Bets

Gus Hansen Poker lessons 1/8

2010-09-01T01:50:00.001-07:00

Pocket Fives RESULTS

2010-08-19T07:56:00.000-07:00

Period 1st - 14th August 2010

Bankroll building with SNGs. Start with $32.50

2010-05-21T05:05:00.000-07:00

BANKROLL BUILDING SNG STEPS by Poker Invest

NOTE: This is an AGGRESSIVE bankroll building strategy for the recreational player.

Ok, this is a 7 step strategy for building a good bankroll playing SNGs starting with $32.50.
This strategy is for 9 player Turbo SNGs at FullTilt

LEVEL 1: $6.50
$6.50 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $6.50 = $32.50 + $12 (next level 1 buyin)

LEVEL 2: $12

Play this LEVEL when balance is $44.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $12 and 5 @ $6.50 only.
$12 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $12 = $60 + $32.50 = $92.50 + $24 (next level 1 buyin)

If you increase your balance, keep playing this level until you have reached a minimum balance of $116.50 and then start playing LEVEL 3.
If you LOSE and your balance is LESS than $44.50, you MUST go back down to LEVEL 1

LEVEL 3: $24

Play this LEVEL when balance is $116.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $24, 5 @ $11 AND 5 @ $6.50 only.
$24 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $25 = $120 + $60 + $32.50 = $212.50 + $36 (next level 1 buyin)

If you increase your balance, keep playing this level until you have reached a minimum balance of $248.50 and then start playing LEVEL 4.
If you LOSE and your balance is LESS than $116.50, you MUST go back down to LEVEL 2

LEVEL 4: $36

Play this LEVEL when balance is $248.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $36, 5 @ $24, 5 @ $12 and 5 @ $6.50 only.
$36 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $36 = $180 + $120 + $60 +$32.50 = $392.50 + $60 (next level 1 buyin)

If you increase your balance, keep playing this level until you have reached a minimum balance of $452.50 and then start playing LEVEL 5.
If you LOSE and your balance is LESS than $248.50 you MUST go back down to LEVEL 3

LEVEL 5: $60

Play this LEVEL when balance is $452.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $60, 5 @ $36, 5 @ $24, 5 @ $12 and 5 @ $6.50 only.
$60 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $60 = $300 + $180 + $120 + $60 +$32.50 = $692.50 + $119 (next level 1 buyin)

If you increase your balance, keep playing this level until you have reached a minimum balance of $811.50 and then start playing LEVEL 6.
If you LOSE and your balance is LESS than $452.50 you MUST go back down to LEVEL 4

LEVEL 6: $119

Play this LEVEL when balance is $811.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $119, 5 @ $60, 5 @ $36, 5 @ $24, 5 @ $12 and 5 @ $6.50 only.
$119 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $119 = $595 + $300 + $180 + $120 + $60 +$32.50 = $1287.50 + $236 (next level 1 buyin)

If you increase your balance, keep playing this level until you have reached a minimum balance of $1523.50 and then start playing LEVEL 7.
If you LOSE and your balance is LESS than $811.50 you MUST go back down to LEVEL 5

LEVEL 7: $236

Play this LEVEL when balance is $1523.50 MINIMUM for 1 SNG @ $236, 5 @ $119, 5 @ $60, 5 @ $36, 5 @ $24, 5 @ $12 and 5 @ $6.50 only.
$236 Turbo SNG needed 5 X $236 = $1180 + $595 + $300 + $180 + $120 + $60 +$32.50 = $2467.50

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2010-05-10T11:17:00.000-07:00

PKR Masters TV December 26th, 2009 FINAL TABLE (commentary by Dan "PKR Danski" Grant and Neil Wright).

2010-03-13T02:18:00.000-08:00

PART 2
My player name on PKR is: pokerinvest
I finished this tournament in 6th place for a $4000 win.

PART 1

My RESULTS (final tables only)

2009-08-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

$3088

August 20th 2010: Full Tilt $24+$2 BuyIn $33,000 KO Guarantee. KO Bounty: $4.
I think I got 10 KO's here and came 4th for a $3088 win.

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$4755

May 7th 2010: Full Tilt $24+$2 BuyIn $10,000 Guarantee Turbo 6 seater RUSH.
Yes! What a game! Just came 1st and beat a field of 927 players for a $4755 win.

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$423

April 21st 2010: Full Tilt $11+$1 BuyIn 135 player RUSH.
Just took this down for a $423 win.

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$698

April 9th 2010: Full Tilt $50 BuyIn $12,500 Guaranteed. Came 6th here today for a $698 win. Oh well, it pays for the weekend.

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$4000

December 26th 2009: I screwed up a real opportunity here. I came 6th in the PKR Masters $100,000 Guaranteed for $4000.

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$6900 and $800

December 25th 2009: Nice day today. Came 1st in the PKR $25,000 Guaranteed for $6900 and 5th in the $18K Guaranteed for $800.

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$5500 and $580

December 23rd 2009: Had a good day! Came 6th on FullTilt for a $580 win and 1st on the PKR $18,000 Guaranteed for a $5500 win.

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$2227

October 20th 2009: Oh well! Came 2nd for a $2227 win. Can't complain!

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$2700

August 20th 2009: Took down the $8500 Guaranteed on FT today for a $2700 win. Quite happy about that since my last win was in December.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Poker

2009-06-16T06:36:00.000-07:00

by Poker Penguin

The seven deadly sins will condemn your bankroll to hell!
Read all about it here.

The seven deadly sins are familiar to those of us who had religious education classes at school. But did you also know that they are bad for your poker game?

Let's get right into it:

Pride is the excessive belief in one's own abilities and it has been called the sin from which all others arise. There are few poker mistakes that can't be traced back to pride. Playing above your bankroll - Pride. Trying to buy a pot against fish because you're a tight player - Pride. Fancy Play Syndrome - Pride. Playing hands out of position because you think you can make them work - Pride. Calling down with a beaten hand so people won't think you're weak - Pride. If I could get rid of one fault from my game, it would be pride.

Envy - Envy the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation. I am not Daniel Negreanu, nor am I Phil Hellmuth. No matter how much I envy them their successes, trying to blindly copy them is not the right thing to do. I'm not saying don't try to play like Daniel (or even Phil). Instead, understand *how* Daniel uses his traits to gain his successes. If Joe WSOP comes over the top with J7o, don't you do the same out of envy, in fact you don't do it until you know how and why it worked for him and that it will work for you.

Gluttony - While poker food is pretty sinful in terms of its health effects, that's not the only bad thing about it. Gluttony is a desire to consume more than one needs. In other words, hanging on at the trough too long. Even if it's the fishiest game ever, if you're too drunk or tired to realise that there are three hearts on the board, then you are comitting the sin of gluttony, and your eternal bankroll will suffer.

Lust - There's an obvious joke about not surfing for porn while playing online. I guess the closest I can come to an actual piece of poker advice is that even if she bats her eyelashes at you, you should still check-raise a woman, and especially a "woman" whenever you can get her to semi-bluff into your strong hands. If you're playing poker for money, then everyone is fair game, and should be played hard. Otherwise, you get sloppy.

Anger - The sin of anger is obvious in poker, so too are its negative effects. Anger is the father of tilt. We all know what tilt looks like, even if we can't recognise it in ourselves. When the poker player allows his anger to rule his head, he throws his money away. Thoughts like "I'll teach this jerk a lesson" or "how could he call with 92 off?" are angry thoughts and remove the player from the path of righteousness and profit.

Greed - Ahh sweet greed. Perhaps the second most deadly of the Poker sins. Greed is what makes us play too many hands - blinded by the potential payoff. Greed is what makes us ignore signs we are beaten, and call one more bet. Greed is what makes us check our top set in late position with a two flush on the flop because we want to try for a check-raise. That said, a tempered amount of greed can be a good thing - we wants the precious after all, don't we Gollum?

Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work - If you're pretending to be a (semi)-pro, you've got to work. The serious poker player must work both physically - putting the hours in at the tables, even when Survivor is on TV and spiritually - reading and thinking about their play, working out what their sins are and trying to solve them.

So there, I guess Religious Education class wasn't just a chance to play cards in the back row.

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$15 NL 9 man SNG Win Super TURBO (300 chips) at Full Tilt (May 27th 2009)

2009-05-28T01:37:00.000-07:00

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$57 Heads Up (May 21st 2009)

2009-05-21T23:45:00.000-07:00

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This is a quick one: 5 hands

Starting Hands & Behaviour

2009-05-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

You might think that starting hand strategy in poker is all about getting big cards and winning with them, but that's only half the story. The other half of the story is avoiding getting yourself into situations where you call down with weak cards.

If you've played poker already, you'll probably nod your head in agreement when you hear this situation:

You're in the Big Blind and you catch top pair on the flop with a weak kicker. A player bets, and you call the flop with your top pair. The player bets both the turn and river, and you call again (even when you really don't want to). When you turn your cards over, you find to your dismay that your opponent has a bigger kicker and wins the pot. You've just been out-kicked! This happens all the time and the key is to let it happen to your opponents - not you!

Remember: Position is extremely important. Sometimes even more important than the cards you are holding.

Position, position, position

2009-05-21T04:46:00.000-07:00

Your position at the poker table during a hand should have a big influence on the way you play any hand. Your position can determine how much money you win, or even whether or not you actually win the hand. Position in poker is something that is all too often overlooked by newcomers to the game, and sometimes even by some of the more experienced players. To become a solid player, you have to exercise good poker strategy and use position to your advantage. If you are not always trying to keep aware of your position at the table, then you are leaving a big hole in your game.

Your position in each hand is determined by the placement of the ‘button’. The ‘button’ is the dealer’s seat and all actions must take place one after another in an anticlockwise motion from player to player, starting with the player to the immediate left of the dealer. The group of players that will be the first few to act on each betting round are known as players in ‘early position’, and therefore the players that will be the last few to act on each round are known as the players in ‘late position’. As you might have already guessed, the players in between these two groups are known as players in ‘middle position’. The button is the best seat in the hand because that player will be acting last on every round of the hand, except only for pre-flop.

The players that are in late position have an advantage over the other players at the table because they will be the last to act on every betting round. This means that they are able to see how their opponents act and play their hand before they have to decide how to play their own hand. For example, if a player in late position sees an opponent check before them, they can infer that there opponent has a weak hand, and so they may decide to make a bluff to try and take down the pot. If the positions had been switched around however, the player now in early position will have a harder time trying to run a successful bluff, because they no longer have any information on the strength of their opponent’s hand. Being out of position in any hand can cause many problems, and hinder any good Texas Holdem strategy you might posses.

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When deciding whether or not to enter a pot you should always be considering your position at the table. If you are one of the first to act you have to remember that your opponents will have access to more information about your hand on each betting round, and so will be able to have the greater ability to bluff you off of your hand if you show any weakness. Knowing how to bluff in poker is important, but even more important is knowing when to bluff. If you intend to play a hand from early position, you should make sure it is a premium hand to give yourself the best chance of winning. Consequently, you can loosen up your starting hand requirements in the later positions because you will have the advantage of acting last on each round.

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$16 NL 9 man Turbo SNG Win (May 20th 2009)

2009-05-21T00:57:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-18T05:04:00.000-07:00

Daniel Negreanu is an amazing poker player. His game is mainly small ball poker which is only really profitable if you can get reads on your opponents. Watch this!

2009-05-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

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2009-05-17T04:49:00.001-07:00

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This is a lesson on how NOT to act at the poker table. Phil Hellmuth is well known for being a spoiled brat and totally classless when it comes down to poker etiquette and simple manners.

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ODDS and PROBABILITIES

2009-05-17T04:09:00.000-07:00

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There are some simple odds and probabilities that you should be aware of (especially in No-Limit play) when you’re drawing to a hand or want to prevent your opponents from doing so. If you figure that your draw will be the best hand if you hit it, just compare the odds below to the odds the pot is giving you to decide if you’re making a mathematically sound play.

The odds below are separated into preflop and postflop sections and while some are essential, some were just thrown in for fun. You will run into this situation often at the table, so get into the habit of comparing the actual odds of making your hand against the pot odds. Of course, in No-Limit games you should often also consider the implied odds (the amount of money that you expect to make from your opponent after you make your hand), but that is the subject of another article.

If I recommend that you memorize a vital statistic, it will be bolded and you will run into it frequently playing hold’em. In parenthesis, the probability will be expressed in percentages to the nearest tenth.

Preflop Odds
These odds won’t really affect your game strategy, but it’s interesting to see how rare certain premium cars are. It’s also important to realize that many players overvalue random suited cards or a single, which are dealt relatively frequently. However, the odds that these hands will improve are much less frequent.

Probability of being dealt:
• Any pocket pair: 16 to 1 (5.9%)
• Two suited cards: 3.25 to 1 (23.5%)
• A-K (Big slick – suited or offsuit): 81.9 to 1 (0.9%)
• Any single ace: 5.7 to 1 (15%)
• Pocket Aces: 220 to 1 (0.5%)
• Pocket Aces or Kings: 110 to 1 (1%)

Odds of Hitting on the Flop:
• Hitting another kind of your pocket pair on the flop: 7.5 to 1 (11.8%)
• You will pair at least one of your unpaired hole cards on the flop: 2.1 to 1 (32.4%)
• You will hit two pair on the flop with unpaired hole cards: 49 to 1 (2%)
• Hitting two or more of your suit on the flop when you hold suited cards: 7.5 to 1 (11.8%)
• Hitting a flush on the flop with suited hole cards: 118 to 1 (0.8%)

On the Flop, when you have:
• Four cards to a flush on the flop, you will complete it by the river: 1.9 to 1 (35%)
• Four cards to an open-ended straight on the flop, you will complete it by the river: 2.2 to 1 (32%)
• A gutshot straight draw on the flop, you will complete it by the river: 5.1 to 1 (17%)
• Two pair, you will complete at least a Full House: 5 to 1 (16.7%)
• Three of a kind, you will complete at least a Full House: 2 to 1 (33.4%)
• One pair, you will complete at least three of a kind: 10.9 to 1 (8.4%)
• An open-ended straight flush draw, you will complete at least a straight: 0.9 to 1 (54.1%)
• An open-ended straight flush draw, you will complete it: 10.9 to 1 (8.4%)

All-in One-on-One
This comes up most often in tournaments when only two players are involved and one of them is all-in. When all of one’s money goes in preflop against one opponent, no further decisions need to be made and the cards will be dealt to the river to determine a winner.

• Larger pocket pair vs. smaller pocket pair (AA vs. KK): Larger pair is at least an 80% favorite
• Pocket Aces vs. unpaired cards (AA vs. KQ): Pocket Aces are at least an 80% favorite
• Pocket Pair vs. Overcards (QQ vs. AK): Pocket pair is at least a 52% favorite
• Pocket Pair vs. one overcard (JJ vs. A10): Pocket pair is at least a 66% favorite
• Overcards vs. Undercards (AK vs. Q10): Overcards are at least a 57% favorite
• One overcard (A3 vs. J10): Overcard is at least a 50% favorite
• Better kicker (AK vs. AJ): Better kicker is at least a 70% favorite

Just for Fun
These statistics probably won't affect your game in the slightest, but it's interesting to know what some of the extreme odds are in Hold'em.

• If you're holding a pair, the flop will bring you four of a kind about 1 in 119 tries, or 0.84% of the time.
• The odds are 70.5 to 1 (1.4%) against no one having an Ace or a King at a 10-handed table.
• The odds are 87,897 to 1 (0.01%) against you not being dealt an Ace or a pair for 50 hands.
• You will be dealt pocket Aces four consecutive times 1 in 2,385,443,281 times. Expressed as a percentage, it will happen 0.00000004% of the time.

AA vs KK

2009-05-17T01:25:00.000-07:00

What do you do when you look down and see 2 cowboys (KK). I know I usually get real excited whilst knowing that it is not the best hand.
You only want to play KK vs 1 or 2 opponents max, not more than.
You should consider folding KK when you have very deep stacks and there are lots of re raises happening in front of you.

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2009-05-16T11:32:00.000-07:00

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Multi-table (MTT) strategy

2009-05-16T10:57:00.000-07:00

Strategy

Multi-table (MTT) tournaments, as the name suggests, are tournaments played across multiple tables. The players have equal bankrolls. As players lose their chips, the number of active tables is reduced by gathering multi-table survivors into one table. This will be repeated many times until there’s only one table left where the person who wins all the chips brings home the tourney prize.

Objectives

When I first started to play multi-table, I was reckless. I had no strategy, no plan. I was over aggressive with sometimes marginal hands. Obviously I would bust out often.
After having studied the game, read many books and reviewed millions of hands, I have come to the conclusion that if you have no set strategy, you are better off just saving your money and not even bother playing poker.

I have 3 objectives in MTTs:

1) Make it to the money
2) Make it to the final table (FT)
3) Win!

Early in the game where a lot of unskilled people are playing, you must stick to your guns – but only with extremely good starting hands. For instance, in a no-limit Texas Hold'em MTT play the hand only if you have exceptionally playable starting hands. Do not wait to see too many flops early on. You’d just be depleting your bankroll much sooner in the tournament than you have to. Let your cards have a say on whether you’re playing or sitting out a hand. At this stage of the tournament, you are just trying to hold on to your chips. Furthermore, playing conservatively tells other tourney players that you only raise when you have extremely good cards and you fold when you know you’re beat. This reputation will come in handy later on.

In the middle stage of the tournament, when the number of players has been significantly depleted, it’s time to cash in on your tight-player reputation. You should start risking your chips, but not recklessly. At this stage, bluff for all you’re worth so you can increase your bankroll as rapidly as possible. However, be careful; you’re no longer playing with the ‘babes in the woods’ but with the ‘wolves’. Remember at this stage, you should try to win more chips YET retain your own chips.

If you manage to get to the final table with a reasonably high stack of chips, that’s very good. Now, your goal is to win the tournament. Put all the pressure on. Pick on short-stacked players so that they can be out of the game much sooner. At this stage of the game, you should show a very aggressive playing style. However, do temper your propensity for terror tactics when dealing with players who have as high or even higher stack than you do.

Help your game! Replay your hands!

2009-05-16T08:55:00.000-07:00

There's nothing better than replaying your hands after having played them.

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2009-05-16T06:08:00.000-07:00

Poker Bankroll Management

2009-05-09T11:37:00.000-07:00

Bankroll management is one of the most important skills necessary to be a winning player over the long haul. It's a poker skill as surely as bluffing and game choice and starting hand selection. An adequate bankroll can compensate for a lot of weakness in a player's game, while an inadequate bankroll can (and usually will) often kill a player playing spectacularly.

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But some people have a pretty peculiar idea of what a "bankroll" is. Many players don't even have a bankroll. Microsoft's Bill Gates sometimes plays 3-6 in Las Vegas. It could be said that Bill is adequately bankrolled for that game, but more accurately, he has no poker bankroll. Bankroll is a non-issue for well-to-do players playing at a small or moderate limit. On the other hand, for purely professional players, bankroll is everything. It's like a truck to a truck driver. If you don't have one, you don't work (or you work for someone else). Bankroll is the issue for these players.

In between these two groups falls the mass of players, and here is where a poker "bankroll" starts to befuddle many people.

I have seen quite a few people refer to something called a "session bankroll", apparently the amount of money a player should put at risk in a certain game on a certain day. Others then also wonder how much they should buy-in to a game for (for instance, $100 for a 3-6 game). It's hard to come up with two less important strategy issues in all of poker!

To winning or breakeven players with an adequate job for their lifestyle (meaning they don't absolutely need poker income to maintain their basic lifestyle), and to players who depend on poker for part of their income, how much money they put into action any particular day should be a reflection of decisions they've made based on the amount of money they have consciously deemed their overall poker bankroll. They should've already chosen to play at a limit where the results of any particular day have virtually zero ramifications to their overall bankroll -- as long as they have the sense to not turn a "day" or a "session" into a 54-hour hemorrhage-fest.

If you are a winning or breakeven player, playing at a limit you are adequately bankrolled for, what you do on Tuesday is irrelevant. What you buy-in for also is irrelevant (as long as you always have enough chips in front of you to play each hand as it should be played). The dollars you are winning or losing that day should be irrelevant in your considerations of when to quit the game. What matters is playing correctly, here and now, in conjunction with a preconceived, sensible, overall strategy. To oversimplify it, this means: play good at a limit you can afford to play. The other considerations are not just trivial, they are giving in to superficial thinking, which reflects a flaw in your mental game. You must employ a disciplined bankroll strategy.

What about losing players? That's even easier. Losing players should bring to the casino exactly the amount of money they can afford to lose -- both on a dollar basis and a psychological one. And they should mentally put all that money on the table when they sit down. Buy-in for any amount more than the minimum needed to play each hand, but consider all your afford-to-lose money on the table -- no more, no less.

Bankroll issues are really more a function of personal circumstance than poker variance. So, what an adequate bankroll is for a winning or break even player with specific life responsibilities playing a specific game is another, more complex question. It's an important question. What is not important, as long as you exercise a microscopic amount of self-control, is how you do on any particular day. Expending brain cells to think about how much to risk on a day, or how much to sit at the table with (unless you are considering image issues), is missing the point of winning poker. Winning is all about what you do, and the reasons you do it. Forget the superficial and focus on the important.

Discipline in Poker dammit!!!

2009-05-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

Discipline in poker is something that all players should have as one of their main assets. If your discipline is poor, you will lose at this game. There's no ifs and buts about it. If you lack discipline, no matter how many great starting hands you're getting, you will lose in the long run. As a poker player, you will know that there are few things in life as exciting as landing a great looking starting hand in Texas Holdem. Being dealt a good starting hand puts you in command right away and you feel excited about the possibility that you will go on and win the pot.

But unfortunately this excitement is probably responsible for more losing hands and leaving players with empty chip stacks than almost anything else in the game of poker because excitement means uncertainty.

Excitement at a poker table is normally a bad thing. When people get excited - and when I say people I mean poker players in this case - they usually make bad decisions. They allow their normal level of poker discipline to drop and make crazy, irrational moves that can cost a big pot or, worse still, their whole chip stack.

Discipline is all about making decisions and sticking to them. If you are a tight player, you need to decide what hands you will play and have the self discipline not to waver from your decision. The most important part of that is knowing when to lay your cards down, especially when they look very tempting and you are itching to stay in the hand to see what happens.

It's as old as the hills but it's still as true today as it ever was; you need to know when to fold 'em. Even if you have a hand that looks like a monster, it can always be beaten and the bigger and better the starting hand, the harder it is to fold.

Dangerous starting hands that cause a lot of people to lose their poker discipline and cost them money are those such as A-10, A-9 or worse, Q-J, K-10. If you catch one of those in early position (that is when you are at the start of the betting) you should almost always fold them, there are just too many hands that can beat you.

Although it's probably about the hardest to master, poker discipline is one of the key skills that marks out great poker players and sets them apart from the rest of the pack, so decide on your strategy and stick to it.

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