simulatedworld
Freshman Member
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- Nov 7, 2008
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- ENTP
- Enneagram
- 7w6
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- sx/so
Love it love it love it. Typically do fairly well, until my interest flags...then I become very rash. Only played in "friendly" games and online so far...I dislike online play, I can't see the faces. I had a lot more 7-stud and 5-draw experience before WSOP started playing Hold 'em on prime-time and spread the game to the four corners of the earth.
Where are you finding tournaments?
"Poker face" is actually a hugely exaggerated popular media myth--any decent player simply doesn't have physical tells, or mixes them up randomly with no related pattern to his cards so that they're useless to opponents. No poker game of any real skill level has anything to do with staring your opponent down for 10 minutes straight until you notice his eye twitch and determine that's made a foolish bluff for all of his money--good players rarely bluff all in at all (except against very weak-tight opponents.)
Hate to tell you but hand reading ability based on betting patterns and opponents' play tendencies is about 95% of the game--not seeing faces tends to only make a difference against very new/very bad players who have not yet even learned to consider that they might be giving off tells.