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Message: [QUOTE="Dogfish44, post: 1412896, member: 58954"] [b]Readdress the balance...[/b] I too have succumbed to this problem, and although I've only been playing poker seriously (online) since May 09, I feel that I have learned a great deal in that time. Whilst I find that the actual rules of poker are fairly straight forward, I have had to learn a lot when it comes to betting and offering up chips in a pot. The major stumbling blocks that I have had to face are, a personal battle against my own ego, and learning to have faith in my reads of other opponents. At times I have battled on with top pair... only to be beaten by a straight or flush draw, even by some dweeb holdin 23s. Always consider the possibility that holding top pair is not sufficient to win the pot. If you can already see that you have been beaten, even when bluffed out by the donk that goes all-in every hand just because he holds the biggest stack, then fold... bide your time... let your opponent bluff you two, maybe three times... eventually you will win when you check-raise his/her 3rd bluff because you will eventually hold the nuts. And trust me, if you've been successfully bluffed by an opponent that thinks going all in is good enough, then make sure that when you counter, you have them beat for their entire stack. If the flop comes with all same suit, regardless of what you are holding (be it top pair or otherwise... even AA) then FOLD. Never consider folding as an act of weakness, rather it's a way of protecting your chips. Never chase... straights or flush draws, most of the time it seems you are fighting a losing battle. If you have nothing from the flop, then what's the harm in folding, unless you have already committed most of your chips pre-flop. Learn to recognise the betting patterns of opponents. Will they go all in with a low suited hand just to try and protect their own hand? Or are they genuinely offering up a challenge for you to beat them? Be aggressive... But only when you know you hold the best hand (and you are 100% sure you do) or has your opponent shown weakness in their own betting patterns? and is it therefore worth a small bluff? Learn, study, absorb. A friend of mine once told me; (when refering to American Football, which I LOVE to play, and coach) "[I][B]to just play is not enough, you have to become a student of the game[/B][/I]", I've never heard a truer word spoken... about anything... If you really want to succeed in this field, then study, study, study. There is so much literature out there, on the subject of poker that it's hard to decide just WHICH books to read. Now, after all this BS a small confession... I'm a little bit tipsy right now, having watched Amy Wilkinson win Gold in the Skeleton Bob for Team GB in the Winter Olympics... However, If she can do it, then so can you or I. Good luck at the tables my friend. [/QUOTE]

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