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Winning Concept 8: Disguise Your Betting Actions
May 3rd, 2009
Tells are not the only one way you can tip off your hand. Being predictable in your betting patterns is just as bad. If you're too consistent in your play, not only you will know what you're going to do, but so will your opponents!
Poker is a game of deceipt. Your actions—betting, calling, and raising are a process in disguising your hand and creating doubts in your opponents minds as to the relative strength of your hand. One of the worst things you can do as a poker player is become predictable. If your opponents know that you always bet, call, fold, and raise in the same situations, your play would be like an open book—and they would feast upon you at the table.
If, every time you bet or raise, more opponents than usual drop out of the action, something may be amiss. You must find that "something" to protect your pots. Whether it may be a tell or a predict-able betting pattern, you have to fix your playing so you get the proper value for your bets.
If you're pegged as a player who plays only with good hands, or as one who raises every time a good hand is drawn, in no time at all, your opponents will pick up on this habit and adjust their play to take full advantage of the situation. For example, there are aggressive players who tip off good hands by suddenly playing meekly when their cards show strength. This unusual behavior often causes opponents to beware the quiet lion and drop out in marginal situations rather than meet the action.
To some degree, a good player will be predictable, and that is okay. There is always a degree of consistency in good players. But at the same time, unless you want to play like a complete nut so no one will ever know what you're doing—except losing—there has to be a certain degree of unpredictability in your play. Part of being a good poker player is varying your play enough so that opponents never know exactly what's up your sleeve.
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