Wednesday
Feb 11 2015
“Every time you play your hand the way you would if you could
see your opponents' cards, you gain, and every time your opponents play their
cards differently from the way they would play them if they could see your
cards, you gain” -David Sklansky
When
I first started researching I realized that a lot of the terms used I was not familiar
with. So with this post I hope to identify and define key terms.
Position-the position of the
player in terms of playing order
The Gap Concept- when a player needs a better hand to play against someone who has
already opened (or raised) the betting than he would need to open himself
The Sandwich effect- states
that a player needs a stronger hand to stay in a pot when there are opponents
yet to act behind him
Aggressive play
refers to betting and raising.
Passive play
refers to checking and calling
Hand reading is
the process of making educated guesses about the possible cards an opponent may
hold, based on the sequence of actions in the pot
Multiple level thinking is accounting for what the other opponents think about
the hands
Pot odds are
the ratio of the size of the pot to the size of the bet required to stay in the
pot
It is important for me to keep this ideas in
mind as I move onto more complex theories like chance calculation, bluff strategies,
and analyzing fold/check patterns.