Hello, I’m Michael Fishman, a professional poker player. In this blog I want to share some of the tips and advice, based on my own experience. Hope this information will be useful for you and let you improve your gambling skills.
There are a number of myths that have grown up about the necessary ingredients for success at poker games. A myth usually has a germ of truth to it, with a large degree of distortion. It sounds plausible, but a close examination will reveal that there is more falsehood than truth. The overall effect of these poker myths is to mislead people who are trying to improve their game. Here are my candidates for the four misleading myths that do the most damage to players' bankrolls—especially newbies:
Confidence is very important for a player. This is also true for playing in an internet poker room.
Even though it is helpful in any endeavor to have confidence, we must ask, "Where does that confidence come from?" When you see Tiger Woods get up on that eighteenth tee on national television and whack a big drive right down the middle, he looks confident. The reason for this confidence is certainly not that he hits slices into the boondocks on the practice tee, but thinks he can do well under pressure. No, no, no. The reason is he has performed so well on previous occasions that he feels he can do the same thing when the chips are down.
I would argue that it is vital for a poker player—or any gambler—to have a realistic view of his own strength. Should a $5-510 limit player go into a trance, mumble fifty times to himself "I am the greatest," and then take a seat in a tough $50-5100 game?
Would you want to stake him? Confidence is something that flows naturally as a result of successes. You don't swell your chest with confidence and then become successful; it's the other way around. The maxim should read, "A realistic appraisal of one's abilities is important for a player."
