In the second part of this series on the different levels of consideration on which a poker player moves, we explain how the perception of these levels, your progress can influence.
Level 3: As you read your opponents
It is about time that you make yourself think about your opponents probably guess which hand you. This will come in the phase in which the output is no longer a single source depends only on what cards you get. Up to that point gain or loss for you hung virtually exclusively on the quality of your cards.
To understand this level of calculation poker completely, you have to learn to read the texture of a board very carefully and to interpret the betting structure of a hand. You also begin to recognize tells and reading. If you can do this, you can really call themselves a good poker player.
Presumably you will still not be able to dominate the next season of High Stakes Poker, but perhaps after all the home games with your friends.
On this third level, you can also start your first bluffs. Now you know what your behavior and indicates which hand you represent. You should be able to take advantage of it, that your opponents think you know what you think.
Of course bluff players who are still on the first or second level. The reasons are as follows:
1. - Many players watch TV too much. You have seen someone on TV has started a big bluff and want to be just as cool. They hold a successful bluff for a demonstration of their great poker game.
2. - Everyone knows that bluffing at poker. Basically, that's the first thing one associates with poker. Many people believe that poker and bluffing are one and the same. Beginners hold Bluffs therefore essential components of their game.
In contrast to the bluffs of experienced players who have a correspondingly high rate of success is, but this is not a well calculated maneuver. It is more shots into the blue, pure emotional moves. (We'll talk on the emotional level later on.)
Remember our example from the first part?
We are back in the same scenario: Cow Girl moved to Level 2 pricing and sat on the River on a bluff, while Blondie made the call based on calculation of level 1.
Cow Girl would, however, already has gone on calculation level 3, they would have understood that your opponent does not thinking about what they could keep on hand. In other words, Cow Girl would have been one of the golden rules of poker the author of these lines:
Never bluff a calling station.
For details, see "your level - level opponents' below.
Level 4 - deception and dilemmas
It succeeds only few players to reach this level actually. All good players have one foot on that plane, but it is very difficult to find there a really firm footing.
Deception
They are now actively trying to lead your opponent into error. This includes, of deceiving the enemy and to exclude (such as a fish). There are lots of strategy articles that deal with this aspect of poker strategy.
The dilemma
The dilemma is one of the advanced methods good no-limit game.
If a strong player indicates that he has a strong hand, but does so in any obvious way, this usually means that he has a weak hand. The motto of Mike Caro:
Weak means strong, strong means weak.
What happens if your opponent knows that you know this style of playing and notice if someone just playing an act? Then this could mean Represent a strong hand, of course, that he actually holds a strong hand.
We are in a quandary. Is the enemy and strong or not? What he trusts me, and what strategy he will therefore apply to me? He bluffing or does he just as if he's bluffing? A double bluff, perhaps? You will understand what I mean.
Your level - level opponents
You have to adjust your playing style in mind that pricing level you have achieved, but above all, the de level of your opponent.
If you do not use enough time trying to research the level of your opponent's game, it is virtually impossible to figure out at what level he moves costing and how he will try to turn the game in his favor.
One of the biggest poker mistakes is to try to bluff a calling station. Some players just do not fold, even if their calls are really terribly bad. Never try to bluff one such player.
If you play at a high level that does not mean that all players understand what you are doing. You have to play at the level that the opponents are known.
I would play one and the same hand against two different opponents also quite different. That depends entirely on it, on which calculation level, I put my opponent. A move that works against a drunk amateur acts, just simply not against Phil Ivey.
Good players play poker very flexible, just like you should do the same. Keep this fact always in mind. If you are too lazy for it and not notice the variations, they will inevitably make mistakes.
If an enemy detects that you are a good player but he is the moves that he uses for an amateur, do not try you.
Therefore, the information you have played so far recovered from the hands of the enemy are not 1:1 feasible if it is involved in a hand against you.
If you are after reading this article ask at what level you play, you always think of the following: All players begin at level 1, and all must work their way up slowly. Even the best players in the world were once right where you are now.
Lay seen out where you stand and where are your opponents. The more you play, the faster you will improve and increase the range and complexity of your game.
