Poker Free Online Simple Patience On Steroids Guide To Ways To Win Poker Games

Just what do you have to do to be a great poker player?

This, million dollar question (literally) is pretty much at the core of poker for any player who is not just in it for the free fun games.

Is there some secret strategy which makes players successful and sets you apart from the free online poker donks?

The answer to this is not difficult and this how to win poker games lesson has it in a nutshell.

The secret, or insider strategy key for successful good poker play at all levels from free to huge stakes is to be able to make cool headed, logical decisions at every decision point.

In other words, to "use common sense at all times" and win, sorry it's not more profound than that.

Common sense you screech? "I have plenty of common sense and I'm not winning much at all!". But common sense, you'll come to realize, just isn't that common when it comes to poker.

The failing most people have in this area is how they view poker. Way too many players trust to luck either some or all the time. But in reality poker is totally about skill and common sense decision making has a direct correlation to long term success.

While short term results are subject to a degree of luck in the long run skill wins out and the players playing a profitable style profit! Once you adjust your poker view to accept this you see that "common sense" is the core key to winning poker.

Those big bluffs you see top pros make on TV? They have solid (often complex) reasoning behind them.

The online poker pros making a big living every year?

They make all that money by playing thousands of hands in a solid steady style that overwhelms the majority of their opponents'.

Even at free online poker sites superior poker players profit more than the worse ones.

OK great, accepted, so how to apply this? Essentially by focusing on solid fundamentals with sound tactical poker skills.

My "key", to use "common sense", is really just a more general way to say patience though it expands much further than just "patience"

How does common sense equal "patience" in poker?

> In a normal Holem game you get 2 cards that only you see befie the betting (apart from blinds) starts.

> We apply standard patience logic and wait for hands that we know are profitable long term.

> Since relatively few hands can be played profitably, we'll be tight preflop.

> Adding common sense into this mix we will now say that the idea of poker is to take money from the other players.

> If we invest money with stronger hands than them, we'll profit.

> Therefore, we only play stronger hands preflop so we can profit, and as such should generally play tight.

Where the "common sense" concept outstrips simple "patience" is in the fact that the "common sense" line of thought is more logical in the reasoning it lends to your decisions.

What we are saying if playing vanilla patient is "I play this hand as it is profitable" whereas when you play with common sense you are saying "This hand is profitable because...so I will play it", this is a step above just playing with patience, with preflop hands it is not so different as you have a known list of hands to play or not play but in more complex situations this reasoning process sets you apart.

You should know what you're doing all the time and WHY you're doing it beyond some set in stone rulebook.

The easiest application of this is playing tight (no trash hands!) preflop.

While the patient approach says to play certain hands only as they are profitable your logical approach goes a step further saying that when you play good hands preflop you will get more good hands postflop and make more money, therefore only play tight preflop and fold all trash.

This extends to many other basic poker concepts, such as value-betting "we should bet when we're ahead of our opponents to make money", bluffing "we should bluff when we can't win the pot unless our opponent folds and our opponent is likely to fold", and beyond.

These more complex areas will be looked at in depth later on this free poker online games training series.

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