WHAT TYPE OF POKER PLAYER ARE YOU?
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:16 am
There are two kinds of players, recreational and professional. This article is geared towards the recreational player. That would be the person who doesn't earn the majority of their money playing poker, creating books and videos on how to play poker and endorsing poker sites and products.
You see at the professional level they already know this stuff and have spent hours training themselves how to see and eliminate these things from their own game. They have hired trainers, watched countless hours of video of themselves and as many of their opponents as possible. At that level when you have played for tens of thousands of hours against thousands and thousands of players it becomes more intuition and instinct then recognizing this person made this move and that means this. They don't even think about it at that point, they just know without knowing.
This is for the other type of player. The player who does it for fun with friends and family once a month, or frequents games at local bars or casinos, or would even like to play professionally someday but for some reason hasn't reached that level of proficiency yet. So you must be careful because there are many, many levels of recreational player and the only thing that all poker players have in common is that they are all liars. Don't be mad it's true, and if you are not lying when you are playing, you are doing it wrong.
You see at the professional level they already know this stuff and have spent hours training themselves how to see and eliminate these things from their own game. They have hired trainers, watched countless hours of video of themselves and as many of their opponents as possible. At that level when you have played for tens of thousands of hours against thousands and thousands of players it becomes more intuition and instinct then recognizing this person made this move and that means this. They don't even think about it at that point, they just know without knowing.
This is for the other type of player. The player who does it for fun with friends and family once a month, or frequents games at local bars or casinos, or would even like to play professionally someday but for some reason hasn't reached that level of proficiency yet. So you must be careful because there are many, many levels of recreational player and the only thing that all poker players have in common is that they are all liars. Don't be mad it's true, and if you are not lying when you are playing, you are doing it wrong.
