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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Win the Small Battles and You’ll Win the War
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 by Phil
Bill Parcells once said “Your record is what your record says you are”.
You may think you’re better, you may think you deserve better but in the end it doesn’t matter. It’s not about luck or variance, it’s about how much you’ve won and lost at the poker tables.
Parcells also said that “Winning is a matter of doing the small things better than the other guy”.
This works in poker as well as in football.
Winning the small battles will win you the war. In football they fight for every inch, every yard. Add up those inches and yards and you get the difference between winning and losing. Make one costly mistake and it can cost your team the ballgame.
Poker is similar in that regard, most of the pots you’re going to win in your poker life is going to be small pots. Sure everybody wants to play for the huge pots but the reality of it is that most of the pots you’re going to be involved are the small. You play those small pots better than the next guy and you’ll have a good win rate in poker. Add up all those small pots and you get one big win. Sprinkle a few big pot wins and you’re crushing the game.
Those are the edges that many books talk about.
I have a friend who tries for the big pots all the time. He hates small pot poker. He’s a gambler and likes the thrill of winning big. The problem is that he’s not winning. Sure he has his days and on these days it re-confirms his belief of big pot poker but these winning sessions are far and few between. He’s a losing player. Your record is what your record says you are. I don’t feel sorry for the guy, he knows what he’s doing. He likes to gamble and who am I to say that’s he’s doing the wrong thing. He gets his kicks in and that’s fine by him.
It’s like those spread offenses I see in football. Sure it’s exciting and there’s a lot of action and scoring but in the long run those teams do not usually win championships. The teams that can control the clock, grind it out in the last two minutes, play solid defense and run the ball consistently are the teams that usually do better in the long run.
The same applies to poker. You win the small pots. You grind it out until you find a good situation to go for big play. You win enough of them, then you can go for the homerun. It’s like when you run the ball down a teams throat and then you throw a bomb.
Anybody can win big pots if they gamble a lot but it’s the player that consistently wins those small pots that will separate the winners from the losers in the long run.
Remember that “Winning is a matter of doing the small things better than the other guy”.
Never have words rang so true in poker.
