Online Poker Guide - Texas Holdem Strategies
Texas Holdem Strategies: Dealing with Luck Variation
Poker can be an extremely exciting and challenging game but, as with nearly all games, there is an element of luck involved when it comes to deciding on the outcome of a game. In football and rugby referees can make mistakes which can alter the outcome of a match. In horse racing a vast array of circumstances can occur which can change the finishing order of the horses, indeed, a friend of 32Red Poker once placed a bet on a horse that was subsequently run into by a cow just before the race started! And in Poker it’s all too easy to get your money in as the overwhelming favourite only for your opponent to hit running cards to make an unlikely flush.
Luck will often determine whether you win or lose a poker tournament. It is an aspect of the game that we can’t avoid and is the major reason why the best players in the world suffer losing runs. We refer to losing (and winning) runs as “variation”.
There are ways to minimise your losing run, though. Be sure you are playing your very best game each time. After you are eliminated take a look back at some of the key hands that resulted in you being knocked out. Was it really bad luck? Could you have played the hand differently? If the answer is “no” then the next step is to move on to a more philosophical mindset.
Veteran poker players will tell you that poker is a “lifelong game”. That is because they understand the luck element of the game and that skill will, eventually, always overcome luck. With many decades and thousands of playing hours in the bank it quickly becomes apparently why the likes of Doyle Brunson have stuck with the game they love for so long. Doyle and co. have patiently played through the bad times and short term fluctuations to become long term winners at Texas Hold’em Poker. They have accepted variation is inevitable and carried on playing their best game to reap the rewards.
The next time you are suffering a bad run of luck remember players like Brunson will have suffered the very same at some point in their careers. They will have seen almost every unlikely one-out draw hit and suffered the frustration that comes with it. So keep your head, avoid tilt and play the lifelong game you enjoy and one day you could become a legendary poker veteran too.
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Online Poker Guide: Variation
Vairation in poker doesn't refer to anything technical, nor a specific element of your game you can improve, but rather it's an outlook on the game. People can experience good and bad luck that lasts hours, days, weeks or even years, but ultimately, if you have the ability, then it will keep you ahead of the other players. The key then to coping with variation is the phlegmatic, keep cool, avoiding going tilt and chasing losses. Eventually you'll claw it all back as your luck changes.
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