Chapter 1: The Game
At a glance poker looks like a very
simple game and it actually is, that is if
you just
want to play the game by the
rules, learning the game should not take
you more than a day, but learning to win
that is a different story all together, As
per me it take 2
key ingredients to be
successful poker player. Planning and
Discipline.
In the olden days planning and learning
was quite an expensive affair, as to play
with people you had to physically join a
game and shell out a lot of money while
you were learning the finer points of the
game, however in today’s
age there are
multiple books and websites that give
you good tips and also you can play
online with
play money and hone your
skills before you decide to take the
plunge and shell out your hard earned
money.
However, you could have all the
planning and practice in the world but if
you don’t
apply what you have learnt
while in a live game you are headed for
big trouble and this is where discipline
comes in. Players lacking self discipline
will find it very hard to be consistent
winners, regardless
of the fact that they
have got a firm grasp on the strategy. If a
player lacks the discipline to throw
away poor starting hands hoping that his