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Mike Caro is a known poker theorist and he wrote the book "Caro's Book of Poker". There he mentions a few poker tells laws he has observed. Some of them are listed below:
By looking at a player's chips, you can see what type of playing style he uses: orderliness means conservative, while sloppy means careless.
A player who bets and then show the cards to a spectator while he waits for someone to call is most likely not bluffing.
A player who bets with a trembling hand, means you should be careful.
A player who smiles for real have a good hand, but if the smile is fake he’s bluffing.
The nicer one player who bets is the more likely it is that he's bluffing.
If there are no other tells, always call the player who keeps his hand over his mouth.
A player who checks immediately after checking his cards has not improved his hand.
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To play a good game in Limit Hold’em you should consider a few things:
- Be selective with your starting hands, just play the best hands.
- Choose the right type of table. Don’t play on tight / aggressive tables and try to avoid the good players. Play on the tables where you can see the flop at least 30% of the game.
- Only call when the pot odds are good enough.
- Try to figure out what your opponent has in his hand with the information you get when they bet.
- Remember how your opponents play. Observe what happens, when he raises, what hands he calls with, etc..
- Bet and raise when the situation demands it. Try to avoid calling. If you think you have a strong hand you should bet or raise. Never give away free cards.
- Always have a good kicker in case someone else would have the same hand as you, and the kicker can make your hand a bit better.
- If you are in a late position and everyone has checked before you then here is your chance to steal the pot, depending on the types of players you have at the table.
- Switch play styles to avoid letting your opponents read your moves.
- Don’t play your hand too far if you think you can’t win.
- Don’t bluff often.
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Last weekend it was time for the annual party for Scandinavian poker players. The best poker players of Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden were all in Copenhagen for the annual Noric Poker Awards.
There are awards in the following categories: Best Live Tournament Player of the Year, Best Online Player of the Year and Rookie Player of the Year. The most remarkable outcome of the evening was that Swedish poker sensation Victor Blom, also known as ‘Isildur’ did not get to take any award home.
Theo Jorgensen became Best Live Tournament Player of the Year. 2010 was a fantastic year for Jorgensen. He won WPT Paris and was among the thirty best players at 2010’s WSOP Main Event. His total price money for last year was $1.375.854.
Andreas Torbergsen, better known as ‘skjervoy’ was awarded the price for Best Online Player. He also won this Award at the European Poker Awards. No wonder, because he managed to win no less than $3.780.000 online.
Thanks to his second spot at the EPT event in Berlin, llari Tahkokallio won the award for Best Perfomance. Norwegian talent Kevin Stani was named Rookie of the year. |
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Chris Moneymaker (his real name!) was born in 1975 in Atlanta, United States. He was working as accountant when he managed to win a place at the 2003 World Series of Poker via an online tournament. At the WSOP he turned out to be an absolute sensation and he even managed to win the event after beating Sam Fahra in a nerve wrecking battle. He won 2.5 million dollars and consequently became a millionaire on the spot. Immediately he resigned from his job in order to travel the world and participate in high buy-in tournaments.
At the World Poker Tour of 2004 he gained a second spot at the Shooting Start Event, winning $ 200.000. At the World Championship of Online Poker he became 6th a the 5th event, winning $139.000 and also won $ 28.000 at the sixteenth event. In 2009 he won the Deep Stach Pot Limit event at the World Poker Open Tournament, adding $ 15.889. 2011 started off really well for Moneymaker as he won $ 130,000 at the PokerStart Caribbean Adventure Main Event.
His price money is currently estimated at more than 3 million dollars. |
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Discussing poker with pros |
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To learn more about poker, it helps not just reading about it or by testing different strategies, but the best tip you can get is by talking to players who are better than you.
Because all decisions are made privately you can’t learn the strategies just by observing the game sometimes. A discussion with the player can provide more information and you will get specific answers to any questions you have.
There are players who do not want to share their game strategies and you will then have to seek out those who are willing to discuss. Do not try to learn something from someone who is worse than you because you will probably not be able to learn anything from him but you can teach him something.
You must also remember that you have to understand the thought process behind what you are about to learn, sometimes it can be difficult for players to describe in words how they think in certain situations. |
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