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HEADLINE: The One Poker Quality You Just Can’t
Learn!
Body:
Can you remember what it was like when you started out on your
poker adventure, all
wide eyed and hopeful? You had learnt the basic poker hand
rankings and you were going to take on the world! Nothing
was going to stop you as you blazed a trail straight to the final
table of the WSOP in your fist year.
Maybe that’s you now. Maybe you’ve just learnt the
basics and you’re ready to plunge in and have a go. Do it!
Just don’t risk your shirt because with the best will in
the world you’re probably going to lose.
But the experience that you pick up from those first games is
probably the most powerful lesson
you will ever learn
in poker. Realizing that you can’t just stroll in and
clean up might come as a bit of a jolt to you, but the experience
gained will be worth it’s weight in gold.
As you go on, if you hope to progress and improve, you will look
and listen and read and learn and devour everything you can get
your hands on about poker. You will learn
tactics; basic ones at first like when it’s a good time
to bluff and when to raise and re-raise, what cards to play and
what cards to fold like a hot potato.
Then you’ll keep improving your education and learn the
value of pot
odds and the real biggie – positioning. With each step
along the way you will improve your experience and learn a bit
more, but you’ll still be wondering why you’re not
in the big time yet now that you “know it all”.
Then gradually, piece by piece, the jigsaw puzzle will start
to fall into place. You will realize that you just did something
for the first time and actually understood why you did it. You
will make the switch towards thinking as a poker player rather
than remembering a set
of rules and tips
that you used before.
At that point you will have gained enough of the one thing that
is going to make you a poker
player to start actually behaving like one – experience.
You can read a hundred poker
books, watch poker on TV all day and all night and discuss
it with your friends or in the poker forums until the cows come
home, but the one thing that you cannot get unless you play a
lot of poker is experience.
So get out there and play
poker!
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