Ladbrokes poker – Textbook Play
Category: Poker
Ladbrokespoker.com – There is a certain way of playing poker that I like to call ‘textbook play’ and many players use this to good effect. For the most part, there is nothing wrong with playing this way, and the only problem is that you become predictable.
Playing textbook poker to me, is never bluffing at a pot fully, tester bets when it is checked round at most. Also this type of player will always raise when they hit a hand, no matter how well they hit. Everything they do is carefully worked out as the right or wrong play, and as a result, they never have any real variance. As I said before, this is no bad thing in some circumstances, but if you play the same players each week, I think you weaken yourself because you always do the same things for the same reasons. Personally, I prefer to mix up my play as much as possible without being reckless or foolish.
Sometimes if I hit well, I will slow play my hand, sometimes I’ll move all in, and I have been known to raise preflop with (7,8) suited, and limp in with (A,A) provided there are only two players behind me. The aim of this is of course to leave players feeling that I could have almost anything, in any given situation. I feel that is a key aspect of poker, and one which ‘textbook’ players lack in their game.