Celebrity Poker Party

You Gotta Know When Fold'em

I have heard to most important skills to have while playing poker is patience. It may sound like an easy thing to do, relax and only play hands you think you can win. This probably would be my biggest poker flaw, the inability to fold a medium hand.

The reason for this is boredom, it doesn’t matter if I am playing online poker or in a live game. I know what a good poker hand is and I know what a bad poker hand is, but it seems the more I fold the better the bad hands look.

I do have to agree with the point that patience is a poker player’s best friend. Eventually those endless muck hands will turn into good hands, hopefully that good hand will make you some money when you have it, to make up for all the lost blinds.

As great as this way of thinking is, you still have to be careful and try not to fold too much. Even with continuous bad hands you still need to call something, otherwise when you actually have the nuts everyone at the table will know not to call you.

I was having a poker discussion with friend the other day about calling cheap flops at the beginning with a bad poker hand. There is nothing with making these calls, you just don’t want to go overboard and call every hand, even if it’s just the minimum bet. You also have to accept when your hand is bad and get out of the pot. We all have stories of horrible hands turning into golden hands, but that’s the way playing a game of chance works.

posted by Celebrity Poker Party @ 11:09 AM