Poker training software can benefit you immensely
Regardless if you want to engage in game simulations or extensive poker coaching, poker training software will benefit you immensely. With the training software you will be able to improve both your state of patience and practice which are two skills this software teaches in extreme detail.
However, before you decide to invest any of your funds in poker training software programs you need to decide if you prefer game simulation software for the task or a coaching program to help you engage in playing the game.
Both names suggest what the certain poker training software entails. The coaching software will allow you the opportunity to have your game evaluated by professional players. While, the game simulation software, will allow you to play the game repetitiously, until you own your skills on your own; you’ll be given different strategy secrets and things of that nature to assist you.
There are a plethora of benefits when utilizing poker training software. The software allows you the opportunity to be able to notice both your strengths and weaknesses of the game. You will be able to understand the underlying basis of the game, and things that you need to do when you feel like you were dealt a bad hand.
With the software you will learn to develop the patience while you are honing your skills. Patience is a big factor in the game of poker. Without an immense amount of patience your game could inadvertently suffer immensely.
When you use a simulator you are actually playing the game and learning firsthand what the right moves for you to make are. The simulator works on the verge of a pass and fails type system. You will be able to recognize bad moves immediately and inadvertently stop yourself from engaging in anything that will end up ruining your game in the end.
Poker training software will only allow you the opportunity to become the best player that you can be in a shorter time frame.

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Hey guys,

I thought it might be time to start writing about my game again.

It’s been a rollercoaster these days. Deposited $200 on pokerstars and been up to $400 and down at $100 again.

I am playing $0.25/$0.50 deepstack ($50). Four tables.

Here are four hand examples, playing as loose as i do really makes getting good hands a must.

I am sitting down, loose as always, people are very annoyed me raising with wierd hands in wierd positions. Thats my game. Take it or Leave.

1. I am dealt: 8 T sb. Everyone folded before me.

BB raises to $1.50. I call.

Flop is: A 3 3

I check, BB raise to $1.50, I call.

Turn: 5 . I got my flush.

I check, BB bets $4. I raise to $8. BB calls.

River: 6 , I bet $9 (never check here as he is very unsure if he is ahead).

He calls and shows 2 3 , he flopped the set.

Another sweet hand, here I actually got lucky:

2. I’m again small blind, dealt A Q .

Mid position raises to $2. Late reraise to $3.50. I call. (and mid pos).

Flop is 2 T A .

I check, mid pos checks. Late all in with $25.60. I reraise to isolate as i was fairly sure to be in the lead to $51.20. Midpos folds.

Turn Q River T .

Late pos had A K . Lucky me!

This hand was kind of Rockets schoolbook:

3. I am mid position dealt: A A . early raises to $3, I reraise to $10 he goes all in with $15.25. I call.

Flop turn river: 8 5 J 6 4

He had Q Q i win $29.70

This is another sweet hand:

4. I am early position dealt K A .

I raise to $2 (being loose and raising 50% of hands you should really not differ your raises, as they can easily tell when you really are on a hand).

Mid pos calls, late pos raise to $8. I Call.

Flop: A 6 4

I check. Late pos raise to $8. I reraise to $20. He reraises to $42 and is all in. I call.

Turn River: 8 4

He had A Q . I win $99.75

Up ~$120 in total, from $100 to $220

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The biggest issue here is paying attention. Is someone overbetting? You only know if you’ve been watching their showdowns or folds when raised or re-raised.

You can’t play poker effectively while you’re talking to your girlfriend or boyfriend. You might get away with that for awhile if you’re a really tight player in a big tournament.

Otherwise, you need to pay attention.

If you find that a player is making big raises with crap like 10 J off, then you establish that person as a target for yourself.

Maybe they exhibit the same behavior with AA at some point, and you get burned. It happens. In my experience, some players get into a bully habit if they think you are a tight player. It depends on the blinds, their chips, and your chips… but you often have an advantage against those types of players when calling their BS with a mid pocket pair or what you believe to be strong overcards.

The point here, is that you have to watch their behavior to know what’s going on. Players who do that usually do it in somewhat late position. If they’re doing it in early position, they might be gone before you get a chance to exploit it. You have to watch to know.

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Here’s the situation. I’m in a multi-table poker tournament. The stakes were $150 + a $12 entry fee. So, I have $162 wrapped up in this game.

A friend calls right as the game starts. In large poker tournaments, I usually play only premium hands. So, I figured I could talk a little bit while I fold 20 times in a row, then pay better attention later. That was the first mistake. You should be watching everything carefully, including who lost what hand with what hand after a showdown. You should be watching how people behave in general. You can’t do these things effectively while you are distracted.

Here are the details.

I’m in the small blind. Blinds are 10-20 because we are in the very early stages of this game. For the same reason, chip distribution among the 10 players at the table was fairly even.

Dealt to me Q A

The player in first position calls 20. Everyone else folds until it gets to me. I don’t consider Q A to be a premium hand, but I called 10 to get in, expecting the big blind to check, 3 players in the hand, and one who is only there because because their chips were already paid.

Instead, the big blind raises 205. I was leary of the player who called in first position to start with. My hand needed to improve on the flop for me to have any interest at all. Here are the mistakes…

First mistake, if I’m going to play crap like Q A in the early stages of a tournament and in late position, I should have raised it a little in an attempt to get the big blind to stay out of the hand.

After the big blind raised 205, the player in first position folded.

Second mistake, I’m still on the phone with my friend. He’s also a poker player. At this point, I’m both distracted, and getting cocky because we are talking about poker. I put the big blind (that raised 205) all in. I should have folded since I was risking my entire tournament on one hand that I didn’t particularly care for to start with. The big blind calls my all in. I would have preferred he folded, but I made the move, and he called.

Here’s the result on the board…

The big blind was holding 4 A

He paired his fours, and I was eliminated. I think he made two mistakes, but it really doesn’t matter when he has all of my chips, and I’m gone from the poker tournament. He misplayed, but my mistakes were mine, and I still had an opportunity to only lose 10 chips in the hand after his 205 raise. I should have taken that opportunity, because there’s really no reason to risk the whole tourney over Q A .

So, first… don’t get distracted. Second… don’t get cocky. The two of those removed $162 from my pocket in about 15 seconds, and my mistakes were completely avoidable.

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Here’s the deal.

Large No Limit tournament. $50 buy in, with more than half the field gone.

Dealt to me, and I limp in for 100. K Q

Here’s the flop… T Q 3 $200 in the pot plus blinds.

I have top pair, plus a good kicker. I bet $450. The other single player in the game calls. I figure he has a flush draw, and doesn’t understand pot odds.

The turn is 9 .

Possible straight on the board at this point. I go all in because I think I have it. He didn’t call my $450 on a straight draw, given the flop. I didn’t think so, anyway.

He calls my “all in.”

River… 2 .

What’s he have in the hole??? T 9 .

His 2 pair took my entire stack. Why? I started the hand with $1515. He started the hand with $5500.

Why did this happen? IMO, it’s because he could afford to take the risk. Lesson: A big stack will call some crap on you, just to see what happens. In this case, his crap happened. Would I play that hand differerently? Probably not.

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First of all, you must have an understanding of pot odds before you even care about implied odds.

Here’s a quick example of implied odds.

You’re dealt 6 6 .

No Limit Game. You’re in a late position. There are two raises ahead of you. Let’s say it’s the first hand. Two people raise for 125 chips. Since you’re in a late position, you run little risk of that getting pumped higher. Do you call? Maybe.

You’re likely beat by one of those raisers, already.

If you run little risk of the pot being inflated, here’s why you call. Your chances of flopping the set are roughly 1 in 8.

Your dream flop is a 6 4 . Why? You just flopped your set. One of the raisers also probably hit their ace. So, you have an opportunity to take their entire stack, or possibly 2 entire stacks.

That is one thing people talk about when they talk about implied odds. If you hit, you have a much bigger payoff, bigger than the 8-1. If you don’t flop your set, and have nothing else, exit at your first opportunity. This is also something you shouldn’t do when you feel the pot might get inflated. You don’t want to be in a 3 way all in race with a 66, and you don’t want to lose your 125 without seeing a flop. So, thinking about implied odds in an early position is riskier.

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I advocate playing limit poker for sophisticated players who pay attention. Those are ring games I talk about, mostly because you have time to watch and evaluate. I like 6 player more than 10 player. With 10 player, you still have to play really tight.

With a big holdem tourney, you need luck. I call a big tournament 400+ people. You also need patience. You also need to understand that most players playing large limit tournaments are also fish.

So, when you have the hand, you push it. Here’s an example.

Table #69

Dealt to me: 10 10

Flop: 10 4 8

So, I just flopped my set. Also, highest posible set, given the board. No flushes, no straights. What do I do with 900 players left?

Bet, bet, bet. Big tourney… high card 10 as far as anyone knows, so the fish are biting. The board paired eights on the turn.

At the end, it was a huge pot because someone caught a full house, fours full of eights. It made for a nice pot, and the fish kept biting.

In a small tournament, I might have slowplayed that. In a big tournament, you have to bet, bet, bet when you know you have the nuts.

Nope, I didn’t even place in the money in the tournament. But that one hand put me in a position where I had a chance. It’s a big field, so you have to pick your spots.

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As I said in an earlier post… with NL holdem, it often turns out that you made a big mistake, or watched someone else make a big mistake.

You can keep all of the notes you like, but the dummies run out of money, and the smart guys will clock you if you’ve only met them once and caught them making a dumb move.

With limit holdem, you usually play with the same people for an hour or so, sometimes more. You get a better read on them. Are they savvy and got a bad beat? Are they dumb and deserved it? Either way,they probably both have some money left.

The savvy ones… do you know what they play? You can exploit that. The dumb ones… do you know what they play? You can exploit that.

Did you just see someone get a really bad beat? Do you assume that they are a little tilted? If you have a good hand, you exploit that too.

If you’re a watcher, then limit poker is your game. If you’re a bulldog, then you’ll find that NL poker is your game, or you’ll go broke fast. Either way, you have to know the odds, and you have to know the pot odds. We’ll cover those later. The point here is to play to your strength personality-wise.

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