Commit to your strategy
November 10, 2009
In poker, there will be a lot of times where you will make bluffs. There will be a lot of times where you will try to steal the pot. There will be a lot of times where you will attempt to make a strategy work. If you are doing a strategy in poker then you have to learn how to commit to it. You have to learn that when you pursue a certain strategy in poker, you must be able to stick to it until the very end. If you do not commit to your strategy then you will end up being discovered as a bluffer. Your cover will be blown. You will be unable to execute perfectly the next time.
In poker, you have to learn how to commit to your strategy. For instance, you might want to try to bluff that you have a straight. If the cards on the table show a five, a six, and a nine and you are trying to bluff that you have an eight and a ten then you have to commit to that strategy until the very end. If you hesitate at any point in your strategy then you will fail. Your opponents will be able to find out that you are bluffing and they will not forgive you. They will try to catch you as soon as any weakness in your strategy begins to show. When you commit to a strategy, you do not hesitate anymore. Think of this like jumping off a ramp with a bicycle. At some point as you approach the ramp, there will be a point where you are fully committed. There will come a point that you can not hesitate anymore. The moment that you hesitate will spell ultimate disaster for you. You may end up injuring yourself. You may end up breaking a leg. In the worst case scenario, you may even end up breaking your neck and killing yourself. Do you want this to happen to you? Certainly not but if you hesitate then this will surely happen to you at the poker table. When you have a strategy at the poker table, you have to make sure that you commit to it. Any hesitation at your strategy will be a tell for your opponents. Do not hesitate at all when you are in the middle of your act. Do not even let anyone know that you are in the middle of an act. You have to be natural. When you execute your strategy, you have to be normal and cool.
So what do you do when you are in the middle of your act? You go for the goal and you do not hesitate at all. You focus your mind on your goal and think as if your life depended on it. Make sure that you are not distracted. Make sure that you have your eyes set on your goal. Make sure that there will be nothing that will stop you from making things happen in your favour.