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Trust
Your Instincts….
Or not. In general I strongly believe that you need to trust you
instincts when you are playing poker. If you make a bet and someone
calls you may think to yourself, they are on a flush draw. The
turn brings the flush card, as it is want to do, and both players
check. A river blank and your opponent bets. Are you willing to
call that bet? In general you need to trust your first thoughts.
If you think that someone is drawing, don’t be dissuaded
just because they didn’t play aggressively when the draw
hit. And don’t think to yourself, if I hit the draw I would
bet, because all players don’t play like you. However if
you strongly believe that a bet is a bluff, and you are not just
trying to rationalize to yourself a reason to call then by all
means do it.
Now on to when you shouldn’t trust your instincts. Never
play cards or make a loose call just because you think that you
can predict which cards will hit. Trust me, you can’t. Those
cards are governed by random statistics, and assuming you haven’t
marked them, you don’t know the cards that are about to
come. If you still believe that you can predict the cards then
I invite you to take up this challenge http://www.randi.org/research/
they offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove that they have paranormal
powers, and I’m sure they will accept your card predicting
ability as a claim.
Personally I love playing against people
who say things like “I felt that card was coming”
or “I could tell my flush would hit” When ever I hear
this I always chalk it up in my mind, a little note that says
this person might be an easy mark. And I offer one prediction
of my own, that they will be very whiney when they lose.
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