4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Originally Posted by dalecooper
I don't mind predictability.
I'm not that concerned with "inducing bets from other people." In this session I came close to tripling my money in 40 minutes of play, and quite a lot of that came from picking up anywhere from 50 cents to 2 or 3 dollars in a series of small pots that no one else felt like fighting over.
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Right on dude. Good poker is all about a lot of small pots. Your style is almost identical to mine. More often than not, when you get into the "induction" frame of mind it burns you. The reason for this is when you induce people to bet, you are denying yourself information. (Who knows if their big bet is exploiting your false weakness or betting a true monster?) If you can get past being predictable, you'll find yourself with better reads, and a more cunning ability to escape bad situations.
Besides that, you can break up a pattern of predictability fairly easily by getting eratic for a few hands raising 67 offsuit or bluffing someone out and showing. You stay out of trouble and confuse. Not a bad plan.
As an aside, I wonder how many people in here actually know who Dale Cooper is.
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