Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Rational Deduction / Logic
Rational Deduction / Logic Since texas hold'em poker is a game of incomplete information, using our reasoning abilities to come to the most logical conclusions about our opponent’s hand range and intentions takes a lot of practice to refine. This is typically an aspect of texas hold'em poker that eludes most players, or they make some progress in this area, but never completely get "over the hump" and put it all together. There are generally several reasons for this, and I'll list out a couple of them:
People can tend to be lazy
People can tend to be lazy and don't want to put the necessary work in to really have a complete understanding of this aspect of their game. Some success is made in this area, but then people are psychologically blocked from achieving a fuller understanding. There's no definitive goal or learning plan created. Since there's no one to keep you on task or create learning plans, people tend to take a scattered "shot gun" approach to learning, and never fully learn. People can be intimidated by the math aspect of poker, and block themselves psychologically from learning.