How to use advice???

04-22-2009, 09:06 AM

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How to use advice???

Okay it told me it was time to post again and I've been meaning to ask this for quite a long time anyway so here goes.

I believe the advice I've gotten here has been good but I see different advice for different situations. One person says one thing and someone else naturally says to do something completely different.

I don't know how many of you play for a living or even if you do. I've also seen the "read books" advice too. The professionals will say yet another thing to do. I assume there are probably 100 or more books out there. Can't afford to buy any as it is so I don't look too often for them.

Anyway I guess my question is how do you folks use whatever different advice you get? Since you won't be always playing the same people but the same exact situations could come up what to do?

I realize the question is very general, so I hope that you can grasp what I am trying to ask. I also know it's maybe not a smart question but I'm playing again really need to know.

Thanks and great luck at the tables.

04-22-2009, 09:43 AM

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All poker advise is general advise, you have to adapt it to the situation - when one says something that is completely the opposite they both could be right, it just might take 2 different situations. Poker books give you general advise also, you have to learn to adapt and change to your level of play and the current situation. Some advise is steadfast, like don't be a calling station, play within the pot odds on draws etc. there are many factors to consider when making a decision and cards is only one of them, a big factor is your opponent and how well you know him and read him. The others are of course prior play in the hand, M & Q values, position etc. etc.

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04-22-2009, 01:52 PM

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Haven't read any books, but I have read alot of stuff on the internet and sometimes I see plays on the table or on TV that I like. When this happens (I see a play that's interesting) I just have a go at it and throw it in while I'm playing. No real logic about it I just do it!

For example if I've just read something about someone check-raising on the river as a bluff and I think DAMN that looks a good move. So I play a hand myself later and just by chance I get into a position where the guy I'm playing bets the river and I've got nothing. Then I remember the play I saw earlier and think HELL YEAH! And go All in over the top …… and then I see what happens.

Unsurprisingly, it usually means I lose my chips. Then I get P1ssed off, but I have a good think about it and ask myself: was the move any good there? The answer’s usually NO but then I think - would it be good at another time? And actually the answer is usually YES.

So then I try the move again, but this time I’m thinking a lot more about it, I won’t use it unless it seems appropriate this time. Then maybe it works next time.

Eventually I get it right and it becomes part of my game

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