Light Joker http://lightjoker.com Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:30:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Rule 8: The hand you really want to spend your money on may be right around the corner Don't put in money on hands you feel «lukewarm» about. The real hand -the one you feel good about pushing a lot of chips in on - may be right around the corner. It may occur on the very next hand, and you want to have plenty of chips in ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=23 Rule 7: The money you don’t lose from staying too long in a hand and the money another player does lose from doing this is often the profit you go home with Maybe you got yourself «trapped» a few times on fairly good hands and found yourself staying longer than you wanted, but soon after that you came to your senses and folded. A less experienced player, however, got trapped on some similar hands and stayed until the very end with them. ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=21 Rule 6: It’s important that a player starts seeing «staying too long on marginal hands» as where the money goes This is a rule for less experienced players, but even long-time players are guilty of this at times. And make no mistake, this is where the money goes. It's where the actual leakage takes place. In fact, it's a money «leak» of such proportions that it can bring down the ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=19 Rule 5: If you do make a mistake, correct it as soon as you can If you do make a mistake, correct yourself at the next available opportunity in the hand. Don't just keep throwing in good money after bad. There's no reason you have lo follow your original mistake with additional bets. Some players feel, having made the original bad call, that they are ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=17 Rule 4: If you don’t think your hand is good enough, it probably isn’t Notice how many times you think your hand is not good enough, and how many times it turns out that you were right. Your hand wasn't good enough - and it lost. It's a pretty high percentage. The suspicion that your hand may not be good enough can often reliably ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=15 Rule 3: Start with premium hands When you get them, bet them. If the hand starts to deteriorate, get away from the hand. This is only common sense, but it is surprising how easy it is to drift away from this basic concept. Have brakes and an accelerator. Use both. http://lightjoker.com/?p=12 Rule 2: If you think you’re beat, gel out This is one of the basic rules of poker, but one that is - for some reason easily overlooked or forgotten. If you're beat, fold. And listen to that little voice telling you that you are beat. (We often hear players at the table tell us, «I know I'm beat» ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=7 Rule 1: Don’t dig yourself into a hole when you first sit down If we had to pick a number one rule in poker, this might be a good candidate. It might not be the most important rule in poker, but it is a good first one. Try not to get way down, money-wise, right from the outset of the game. It is ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=5 Welcome to the Light Joker’s Weblog Poker is a somewhat difficult subject to write about. As you learn certain truths and write them down, these truths can change for you later. What seemed quite profound to you at one time might seem a year later to be «obvious» - and no longer worthy of being mentioned. ... http://lightjoker.com/?p=3