Thursday, October 8, 2009

Get to know your rivals

Did you know that a good way to become more effective when playing poker is knowing against which kind of rivals are you playing? Getting to know your rival will help you to better determine when you should keep playing or when you should fold. As a general rule, taking into consideration the number of starting hands that a player take part in (a lot or a few) and his betting style (active or passive), four main types of poker players can be established. Therefore you must be ready to come across with players that are participating in every hand and betting non stop, so you will never know if they really have a good hand or not; and also with another type of players that select very carefully the hands they take part on, and they bet only occasionally, but when they do it is because they are really sure that they have a great hand.
So, getting to know which kind of people are you playing against will greatly help you to improve your winning chances, whether if you play poker online or in a land based poker room.

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