![]() They start to pride themselves on their ability to lay down a hand that they judge to be second best. And they bet those leading hands aggressively – either initiating the betting or raising if someone else opens the action.Īs they gain experience, they often become better and better at figuring out whether they are, in fact, in the lead. They stick to those hands that are in the lead. They learn not to chase with hands that are not likely to be the best hand at the time. Often, I've noticed, as players recognize the importance of figuring out the relative strength of their hand to the hands they're likely up against, they become significantly tighter in their play. And so they develop a tight playing style – eschewing those low-value hands that have a low probability of winning in the end. By only playing strong starting hands, they figure out, they increase their chances of winning. They learn, for example, that premium pairs are strong starting cards. It's just like rolling the dice.Īs players learn about the game, however, they learn that certain starting hands are more likely to produce winning hands. If they've been lucky enough to be dealt the best hand they win. Inexperienced or otherwise poor poker players often play poker just as if it were a game of craps. This comes through in the derision some poker players spew when their opponents, without apparent regard for skill, manage to win by rolling the dice and "getting lucky." Who among us hasn't heard a player utter "Nice catch" or "You called with THAT?!!" to express his frustration with being outdrawn by an opponent who got lucky when he threw the dice instead of, more skillfully, folding. Poker players generally pride themselves on relying on skill as much as possible. I'm just going in there and rolling the dice." And that's the opposite of what we, serious poker players, like to do. Meaning "to gamble," it implies that someone is leaving the outcome of an event to chance, as in, "I didn't study at all for this test. The expression "rolling the dice" usually comes with negative connotations for the poker purist. ![]()
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