How many times have you put in 500 hands online and decided enough was enough, you’re done? Well, if you are like many players you usually come to this decision somewhere other than when you will be the Big Blind. And if you do what many players do, and stand up, you are losing money! You lose money because poker success is measured in the long-term; every hand you are dealt is worth the same as any other hand.
Here’s how it works: Suppose your win-rate is $25/100 hands –or $.25/hand. Now, suppose you play an average of 200 sessions of poker each year, and on average leave the game three hands before you will be the Big Blind. That means you have missed 600 hands of FREE poker, which could have been an extra $150 in your pocket!
If you were to play out all your blinds you could literally hand another player a $100 bill, and still come out $50 richer than if you continued to leave the game before the blinds come back to you!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
5 Poker Books You Can’t Live Without
When I started playing poker (serious poker that is) a search of Amazon.com would yield one or two poker books on each form of poker. There was only a single book that covered No Limit Hold’ Em, Doyle Brunson’s Super System, which was fine because nobody played No Limit Hold’ Em except in tournaments anyway!
Nowadays there are so many books, written by so many authors, a lot of players have a difficult time deciding which book(s) to buy. In this column I will go over the five poker books every player should have on their bookshelf, regardless of the game they play.
Nowadays there are so many books, written by so many authors, a lot of players have a difficult time deciding which book(s) to buy. In this column I will go over the five poker books every player should have on their bookshelf, regardless of the game they play.
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