Don’t get you caught on tilt!

Monday, May 11th, 2009 | poker strategy, tilt | No Comments

What happens when your opponent hits a one outer on the river to win your whole stack? Do you start to play like a nut and start losing a lot of more money? If this is the case, this article could be helpful for you

You’ve very prone to go on steaming, which means you lose your emotional control when things go wrong. This is something you really need to be able to control, it will save you a lot of money. Everyone suffers bad beats from time to time, but if you go on tilt every time you will lose a lot of money and it’ll destroy game.

But there are some things you can do to minimize your damages after suffering a bad beat. The simplest solution is to follow this rule.

This will certainly have some negative affect on your poker action. But … when you’re tilting action is the very last thing you need Don’t take too many risks losing your bankroll Better to break a while than become favourite to lose a few hundred big blinds. Know when to fold!

Calculate your winning percentages

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 | poker strategy | No Comments

If you counted the remaining outs you still have, you can easily obtain a rough estimate of the winning percentages you have. ITropical Poker gives a quick guide how to count these outs, by the way   Remember, these are just estimates, but they can certainly give you a good indicator of the strength of your hand.

Some handy tricks …

The rule of four

The rule of two

As you can see, these results will never be extremely accurate, so if you want to be more precise just use the Solomon’s rule.

Solomon’s rule