Poker Tips: Patience

I play in live Texas Hold Em tournaments pretty regulary, probably about 3 or 4 times per week. No, I dont mean the online garden variety, where everyone and his mother goes all in on the first hand every time. I mean tournaments you actually have to drive to, pay to get in, draw for seating, and the whole nine yards. One thing I've noticed after playing for about two years now, is that the more patient I am, the better I usually play. Now, I don't mean that you should be so patient that you are blinded out of the tournament because you never play anything except for AA or KK. But I do mean that you should be throwing out alot of the K9o, Q10o, A-rag and similar hands. usually, after a couple hours of not getting very good hands, if I start to get a little impatient, I might start to play some of htose hands, and that's usually when the trouble starts.


Another example of how time can affect how you play poker, is when you have a limited amount of time to play. Typically, the less time you have to play poker, the more aggressive you'll play. And while aggressive play can sometimes land some huge pots for you, you'll end up iwht some pretty wild stack swings. for the most part, I'll avoid poker play all together if I have any sort of time restriction.