In this NoPayPOKER.com free online poker coaching lesson we are revisiting a core poker skill originally covered in the Building a Bankroll course a while ago. It is a skill that is without a doubt the most important single skill in poker namely Patience.
Poker as a participant game has exploded in recent years due to the online poker scene, as a result millions of people who never have played poker against strangers for money or even played poker at all have jumped at it in the hope of making lots of easy money, a perception crated and fueled by many poker websites, the gambling industry as a whole and the media who have lapped up all the advertising dollars.
Most of these players have only basic poker skills and after a short while conclude that poker is just a game of luck. That's a shame as what they don't know is that by using some basic skills and common sense it is possible to win money at online poker consistently.
This is in fact good news for the skilled online poker player as it means you can win a lot of money from the 90% majority of bad ones! After all if poker is just luck how is it that we have consistent poker winners and professional players some of whom are actually multi millionaires as a result of their poker winnings? Precisely, if it were game of luck then that would be impossible, (we don't get big names in the coin flipping game business do we now!) the conclusion clearly then is that poker is game that requires skills.
There are dozens of poker skills that can be isolated but the one that stands heads and shoulders above all the other is Patience. If you can't be patient when you play poker then it doesn't matter that you are a psychology and math PHD who can calculate all the odds in an instant and read people like a book because if you can't wait for the right cards at the right time, you're doomed.
So why don't we start some poker instruction by illustration of the use and application of patience.
Application of patience in poker tournament play.
Here you need to defend yourself against the players who fling their chips around with no care during the opening rounds of every game as if it were Bingo. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking they know what they're doing. They do not!
Instead you must hold out for some premium cards. Sure you'll have to fold some and lose a few chips as you wait but if you wait for the right moment then you'll get a whole pile of chips later on from the chip throwers at the same time you knock them out (or rather, they knock themselves out!).
All you have to do is sit and wait for the dealer to push a couple of good cards to you. Just relax until then. Winning money is a lot more fun that losing it and poker is 100% about winning money, not gambling, not having fun but winning money which is actually fun anyway, ergo!
Patience Developing Exercise (PDE)
This is an easy though boring and time consuming exercise but one that will help a lot.
Go and join a free online poker freeroll. One with lots of players is best.
1) For the entirety of the game you're only allowed to participate in a hand if you were dealt pocket aces or pocket kings.
2) Strictly no other pockets can be played.
3) And even if you have pocket Aces or Kings you cannot start a bet or put forth a raise.
4) If you do have AA or KK though you can call a bet.
5) But again, you can't raise or start any betting.
6) Plus, if you are Big Blind and you don't have AA or KK you must fold even if there has been no raise made against your Big Blind.
The PDE has helped thousands of players bring patience to the forefront of their skill sets.
When you play in a PDE game you're only going to participate in about 1% of the hands. You'll get AA and KK once in every 212 pockets. Yes that is boring I know! .
And I admit that this poker training article is a little boring as well but I would day, not as boring as being broke and, when you consider that this boring and rather invisible skill makes up over 50% of what it takes to win at poker I think you'll agree the boredom of learning was worth it!
So if you are not already a patient player get over to a free poker online freeroll and play the PDE game.
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