Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Poker pearl #24

How do you win poker tournaments? In fact, besides poker, what about golf or any kind of tournament?

This from an artice at Poker Pages by Dana Smith:

Poker champions (give themselves a chance to win) by making the right decisions at the right times. They play conservatively when they need to, aggressively when they see an opening, and they gamble when they have to.

You can read the entire piece here.

4 comments:

  1. I always go back to what Mike Caro says, "Poker is not about winning pots; poker is about making good decisions."

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  2. It ought to be the second theorem of poker, right after Sklanskys first.

    /j.

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  3. That is what I do when I win. But I don't really 'do' it, it just sort of happens to me. Not often enough, either!

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