Gathering Information
I try to gather as much information from my opponents as possible. Anything and everything can provide slight insights into their personality and play. Clues may come from their clothes, their relative level of comfort at the table, the amount they drink, what they drink, how they interact with others at the table, etc.
All serious poker players make this an automatic habit. This is especially difficult during online play, as the internet is nearly the perfect cloak to mask personal characteristics and overall personality. In home games and casinos, the atmosphere is conducive to gathering tons of valuable information in the realm of poker psychology. Getting to know your opponents is a sure way to quick dividends at the table. People play poker as their personality leads them, in most cases. In other words, knowing a player away from the table will certainly aid you in predicting their play at the table. An accountant with three kids from the Midwest will often play differently than a… Continue reading Gathering Information
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Poker talk:
- FULL HOUSE - A hand consisting of 3-of-a-kind and a (different) pair.
- BIG BOBTAIL - An open-ended 4-card straight flush.
- PASSED OUT. - A hand in which nobody opens. What happens next is a function of the game being played.
- EXPECTATION - The long-run [dis-]advantage of a given situation, specifically without reference to any particular outcome. I.e., what you figure to win [lose] on average after a large number of repetitions of the same situation.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- BRODERICK CRAWFORD - In Hold'em, hole cards of 10-4. From the 1950s TV series "Highway Patrol", starring Broderick Crawford.
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