Watch how poker players are betting and remember that, so if it comes to a show down and cards are turned over, you’ll get a good read on their betting style. What I mean here is; did they have a made hand or were they on a draw? He’s probably laid back, never really worried or never panics just always seems so sure. Wait until you see the flop and then if you pocket pair is higher than the board, bet aggressively and see how others react. Everyone has instinct and gut feeling so if you don’t know what your gut feeling is it’s probably because your mind is clouded and cannot clearly identify when your gut feeling kicks in and talks to you. If over cards come out and someone bets big, do not be afraid to fold. If I told you every rough decision in poker was actually an easy decision would you believe me? So your gut feeling is usually what the mind feels based on your database of similar online poker situations. They don’t have time to thoroughly think things through or contemplate, they feel there gut trust it and react on it. This is important to know because the people playing loose is very hard to bet out of a hand and the players that are tight usually only play when they have a monster hand.

So evaluation is important and should be done, but you should be able to feel your first natural instinct and let it play a major role in your decision making process. Another important part of this game is to control your emotions. If a tight player is quick to call, more than likely they have a hand so fold. You have most likely heard the miracle stories about dogs sensing stuff before it happens, or animals acting weird or behaving weird before major events happen. If you have a feeling they might be trying to steal the pot, again raise their bet. Otherwise with your raise, a tight player will put you on a higher hand, fold and wait until their hand comes along. This is not to say that you shouldn’t think about decisions or problems and should just do what your first intuition is, because evaluation is an important and critical part of the decision making process. One of the most important things that you need to do in order to win is to be patient.

All players bluff to win a pot, you have to. Your gut feeling isn’t the solution to all your problems and your gut feeling isn’t always right, just because your gut feeling isn’t always right it’s not correct to stop listening to it, you need to understand that your gut feeling is the best tool that will help your more times then not, so listen to it unconditionally.

A tight player generally only plays the “nuts” early on, but then they know you have a read on them and their style of play, so in the later rounds they try stealing the pot with a big bet. Stand up for a minute, sit out a hand, get your thoughts together, put it behind you and get re-focused. A loose players likes to bluff a lot, one way to feel a loose player out is to raise his bet or check raise him and watch how they react. I think you need to bluff a win, maybe one an hour.

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