How To Have A Better Poker Face

Poker is a family of card games that combines strategy, intelligence, and skill. Poker games vary in the number of cards dealt, the number of shared or 'community' cards, the number of cards that remain hidden, and the betting procedures. The most prominent ones being HOLD'EM Poker and OMAHA Poker.

Put the poker face on, stare in the mirror, and give yourself silent commands – 'poker face poker face poker face'. Do it a couple of times a day until muscle memory kicks in to help out. When the time comes, get your poker face in place beforehand and relax with the deep breaths mentioned above. Practice, make lots of bluffs. Maybe set aside some money that you'll just spend on making bluffs, so you don't get stressed about losing. Watch people that bluff successfully and see what they do. Four of a kind, seven thru tens, split unless you have an ace or better to play in the low hand. Four of a kind face cards, Aces, Kings, Queens, or Jacks, always split, unless you have another pair to play in the low hand. I'm decent at poker, but I've found that the importance of an impassive poker face is somewhat overstated. That is, it's not necessarily the best idea to be stoic and unreadable throughout the game; it's better to be expressive, but in a misleading way. How to Play a Poker Game. Before we get started some basic rules for how to play poker you should first get familiar with the basic poker hand rankings. Maybe 90% of all beginner mistakes happen when someone thinks they have the winning poker hand and they don't.

Tips to play poker for beginners

As they say Poker is not simply a game of odds, moves and calculations, it's a game of controlled and exploited emotions. As an amateur, a Poker player should be well versed with the rules of the games and the card rankings. I would also recommend getting use to the terminologies and vocabulary too. A few points that an amateur can look into:

• Don't play every hand, unless you want to
• Be attentive and always be aware of your table position
• Always try to guess what other players have
• Never be afraid to fold
• Start from the Low stakes
• Practice online a lot, a lot of websites provide free rolls
• Play within your capability; never get carried away with your winning hands
• Patience is always a virtue

Basic Poker Rules

• No-Limit Hold'em is a card game. It utilizes a standard 52-card deck, can be played online and offline (live), It has elements of both skill and luck.
• It can be played by anywhere from 2-10 players at a single table. If you have enough tables and space you can actually play with thousands of players using the tournament format.
• Before that you know about Hand Ranking Rules.

What is no-limit holdem poker?

• Hold'em is the most popular of all poker variations.
• Every player on the table uses two hole cards or just even one of the hole card to form the best five-card combination with the community cards dealt face up on the board.
• There are four rounds of betting

• any player can put all their chips in the middle at any round of betting. That's where the ‘no limit' from No-Limit Hold'em comes from. You can always double or triple the hand any time of the betting rounds, but Poker is a unpredictable game and you can lose all your chips at any given time.
• If you're looking to learn one poker game - know about No-Limit Hold'em rules would be the apt choice.

What is pot-limit omaha poker?

In Omaha, you get four cards instead of the two in Texas Hold'em, but you have to use exactly two of those four along with three of the community cards. The betting rounds are the same as in Texas Hold'em, but the best starting hands in Texas Hold'em - such as pocket kings or pocket aces - are not as strong a favorite in Omaha.

Most online poker rooms and live poker tours offer Pot Limit Omaha cash games and tournaments, where players are not allowed to bet more than the amount already in the pot.

• Every player on the table is dealt with 4 hole cards, faced down. After the pre-flop betting round, 3 community cards are dealt face up on the table which is called ‘the Flop'. This betting round is followed by ‘the Turn' where the 4th card of the community cards is displayed to all the players on the table. The final betting round is the last betting round called ‘the River' where the 5th card of the community cards is put up on the board. In every betting round each player has 4 options, to Check, Call, Bet, Raise or Fold.
• If you have a good knowledge about the betting round in Hold'em, Omaha poker is very similar to it making your way too easy to learn the process.
• As the game Omaha poker is derived from Hold'em poker, these games are very similar to one another. Most Hold'em poker players find the game Omaha poker very easy to learn and play effectively.
• One of the main differences of Hold'em to Omaha poker is the number of hole cards, Omaha poker is played with 4 hole cards instead of 2 hole cards as in Hold'em. In Omaha poker, the highest hand wins but players must use two cards out of hole 4 cards they are dealt to form the best 5 card combination.

HOW PLO GAME WORKS:

• The only other thing you need to know regarding Omaha Rules before you start playing is that in PLO you can't always just shove 'all in'.
• The 'Pot' in 'Pot Limit Omaha' refers to the maximum bet or raise you can make when the action is on you.
• The rest of the game is the same as NO LIMIT HOLD'EM POKER.
• The size of the pot, which is defined as the total of the active pot, plus all bets on the table, plus the amount the active player must first call before raising.

Video Tutorial

How does the Game work?

The dealer deals everyone with two cards starting with the player on his left and ending on him/her.

The player on the dealer's left is the first player to act and they have a choice of:

this is No-Limit Hold'em so they can bet ANY amount they want

Giving up the hand and all the chips they've already committed to the pot

• From there the dealer puts three cards face-up on the board. These are community cards that anyone can use. This is called the flop.
• Once again everyone still in the hand gets a chance to bet and consequently raise or fold.
• The dealer puts the fourth card on the table that anyone can use. This is called the turn.
• Again, everyone gets the chance to bet/check/raise/fold.
• The dealer puts the fifth card on the board that anyone can use. This is called the river.
• For the final time, everyone gets a chance to bet/check/raise/fold.
• Odds of winning vary by the number of players, and gameplay becomes more challenging as more players are added.

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Chapter 115 of the book Self-Help Stuff That Works

by Adam Khan

RONALD RIGGIO, PHD, HAS BEEN doing research at the California State University at Fullerton for over seventeen years. He's been trying to find out what makes a person attractive to other people. He officially studies charisma. One important factor Riggio has discovered is the importance of 'emotional expressivity': the ability to show your emotions on your face so people can easily read how you feel. People who don't show much emotion on their faces don't attract us very much. That's one of his findings
that seems pretty obvious.

But Riggio found something that's not so obvious: Charisma also requires the ability to not show emotions. He calls it 'emotional control.' It's what I'm calling a 'poker face' because when you play poker and you get an exceptionally good hand, you don't want anyone else to know. Likewise, if you get a poor hand, you don't want them to know - it gives your opponents an advantage in betting against you. While you're playing poker, the basic rule of thumb is to not ever register your feelings overtly. The only thing that might give you away is the look on your face, so you have to show as little emotion on your face as you can.

Improving your ability to have a poker face when you need it (and only when you need it) can increase your effectiveness with people. Why? Because emotions are contagious when they can be seen. When you look at someone who is laughing, it tends to make you feel like laughing, doesn't it? Sure. And when you see someone crying, it can make you feel a little sad. Naturally. That's why good actors are so highly valued. They can make us feel emotions. We all have a tendency to experience the emotion we see on someone's face.

But, you may ask, what's wrong with that?

Nothing really, except sometimes. The problem is that there are some emotions you wouldn't want another to have. Two examples are anger and social awkwardness. When you're angry and you show it, the other person will probably become angry or defensive or afraid to some degree - they can see on your face your blood pressure is up, and their body will respond by increasing their own blood pressure. This rising intensity tends to interfere with communication.

Something similar happens when a person feels socially awkward. When you talk with someone who feels awkward because they don't quite know what to do and it shows, you feel somewhat awkward, too, don't you? Or how about when someone giving a speech feels uncomfortable up there in front of the group? Don't you also squirm in your seat a little just watching?

In these kinds of circumstances, the people would be better off and the people they're talking to would be better off if they would learn to conceal those particular emotions when they feel them.

We have all learned there are times when it is not appropriate to say certain things. You don't say to a widow at the funeral 'the dude owed me money.' At certain times and for certain situations, we all know some things are better left unsaid. Well, the emotion on your face is nonverbal, but it is still communication, and sometimes it is counterproductive to say nonverbally 'I'm angry' or 'I feel awkward.'

The good news is that you can learn to put on a poker face when you need it. I'm not suggesting phoniness or pretending you're happy when you're angry. But there are times it helps to show no emotion on your face. It's a skill like any other, and it can be improved with practice.

Practice having a 'poker face' when you feel negative emotions.

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APA Reference
Staff, H. (2008, October 20). The Power of a Poker Face, HealthyPlace. Retrieved on 2020, December 16 from https://www.healthyplace.com/self-help/self-help-stuff-that-works/power-of-a-poker-face