Being unpredictable

[Genemind]

Practice and experience, aside from bluffing you also need to learn how to observe your opponent's behavior and mannerism. Same as you want to be unpredictable, your opponent will do the same. Poker is one of the best card strategy games where you will not need to depend on pure luck since bluffing and intimidation can be applied. The longer you play with your opponent the more you learn how they play their cards.

[jossiel]

Hiding your true emotion is your great weapon when it comes to poker especially if you’re playing on a casino, and I think it takes a lot of practice for you to be able to do this and once you master this one, then you can be a good poker using your own strategy.

Well, at this time going to physical casinos is limited if not allowed. And that means that you cannot apply this strategy or you can have your own poker table at your house.

Hiding emotion can be done easy as if you do not care whatever your card is. You don't have to master it but it is much better of doing it naturally.

[Lorence.xD]

Practice and experience, aside from bluffing you also need to learn how to observe your opponent's behavior and mannerism. Same as you want to be unpredictable, your opponent will do the same. Poker is one of the best card strategy games where you will not need to depend on pure luck since bluffing and intimidation can be applied. The longer you play with your opponent the more you learn how they play their cards.

Exactly, psychology, probability and strategy are some of the key components for the players to be good at gambling. In my experience, having a poker face works the best but if you can try and mix and match to make you unpredictable then it is advisable that you do it because it confuses your opponents but at the same time can be a pattern recognition for them so you have to switch up your patterns each round at best or from time to time, condition them to believe that is your pattern then pull the rug under them.

[Latviand]

It is much better to play poker online just like most of the people here in this thread are saying because in that platform, they can't read your facial expression but only your actions.

So it is much easier to bluff there compared in an actual poker game which can pressure you so much and make you unfocused. Being predictable depends on your past actions and it will hardly affect your future action so planning is really required also based on your cards. But if you have the guts to bluff so much then it will just lose your strong hands as a poker player.

By that, you will end up losing so much opportunity and money while playing in that game.

[XZERO1]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion.  

This may not be true. Your emotions and strategies could still be predictable even if you are playing online poker.

True, the only difference when you play online is that your facial expressions would not matter, but still the strategies that you use under certain circumstances can be tracked by the other player and if there's any pattern to it they might be able to predict your next move/s which is not ideal to say the least.

Just use different strategies and change your pattern on a regular basis and you will be as unpredictable as it gets but you can not remove that part totally from poker and no matter how hard you try, the opponent will be able to predict your next move at times, but just no as easily if you do that.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

It is much better to play poker online just like most of the people here in this thread are saying because in that platform, they can't read your facial expression but only your actions.

So it is much easier to bluff there compared in an actual poker game which can pressure you so much and make you unfocused. Being predictable depends on your past actions and it will hardly affect your future action so planning is really required also based on your cards. But if you have the guts to bluff so much then it will just lose your strong hands as a poker player.

By that, you will end up losing so much opportunity and money while playing in that game.

Also worth mentioning that with online poker, the only thing that you have to worry about is the pattern that you are showing to other players and recognizing their patterns too. If you know what you are doing you can use that sense of being a predictable person to condition others to think that you are going to do the same thing, the art of bluffing to me is to make it so sudden and not slow because your opponent will be pressured to do a move.

[maydna]

Hiding your true emotion is your great weapon when it comes to poker especially if you’re playing on a casino, and I think it takes a lot of practice for you to be able to do this and once you master this one, then you can be a good poker using your own strategy.

Well, at this time going to physical casinos is limited if not allowed. And that means that you cannot apply this strategy or you can have your own poker table at your house.

Hiding emotion can be done easy as if you do not care whatever your card is. You don't have to master it but it is much better of doing it naturally.

Yes, that is right. Perhaps, we can invite our closest friends around our neighborhood to playing poker and remind the old time. We can use that moment to remember what we can in poker games while improving our skills in a poker game.

Perhaps, we can try to use a new trick that we learn from the internet in the poker game, so we can see if that trick can work or modify. Hiding emotion is not easy as it says, especially if we play with people who know who we are and how we play poker.

[Wapfika]

Hiding your true emotion is your great weapon when it comes to poker especially if you’re playing on a casino, and I think it takes a lot of practice for you to be able to do this and once you master this one, then you can be a good poker using your own strategy. People look at you, analyze every gestures that you’ve made and by that they make moves. Being unpredictable in poker is a must, keep learning and keep practicing this one.

It's quite easier now since many restrict going in nonessential establishments so playing can be done now thru online and live casinos. What good in it is that we can play better knowing there's no need to fake our facial expressions and we can think and play in advance, thou the downside is sometimes Internet connection is worse that we feel pressure when it happened.

[carlisle1]

There will be risks for playing casino it is possible to reduce the risk if you can move forward by practicing the casino sites well in a risky society, it is normal to take risks at every moment and that is why it is reasonable to create risk demands.

You need to handle the risk as it will leads you to build strong foundations with your gambling activities, there are times that you'll suffer from

regretful loses, but once you overcome everything and you learn things out from it, you'll got the chance to recover back and maybe win after.

Gambling is just one product that can easily meet this demand through this people participate in innate personal risk taking practices and compete for survival in society gambling history and the logic of accepting or rejecting the casino business in the step of changing society need to be analyzed.

Treating everything as important will surely guide you up to build good system, it's tough as there are opponents that's really good in reading
strategy, experienced and luck but thru time you'll be able to learn the right attitude to counter and win against them.

[rhomelmabini]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

I think there is and you can see it on those poker pro players maybe you could learn about them, watch their videos over and over again until you do, well, just a fair suggestion imo. It takes patience and experience I guess for not being predictable and you can't learn that even in a month or so.

[2double0]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

It is easy to let go those cards and that game in which you don't have confidence yourself instead of playing your oversmartness and losing more. You can use those funds that you put in the 'no-confidence' game being chipped into another game and may it can be a win, you will recover the previous loss. I always do like that because bluffing is not my style.

[paxmao]

You have to play online and by this no one can predict your emotion.  
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Being cold face to the other player can be a solution, and do not change your gesture, and not think much
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Even on-line they can see if you have a pattern, and the problem is that sometimes you are not conscious of your own patterns and you own body reactions to your cards and other's moves. I believe serious players do look carefully into these things. So a "poker face" can be good, wearing sunglasses as well but apart from training, is there anything else out there?

[Wexnident]

Even on-line they can see if you have a pattern, and the problem is that sometimes you are not conscious of your own patterns and you own body reactions to your cards and other's moves. I believe serious players do look carefully into these things. So a "poker face" can be good, wearing sunglasses as well but apart from training, is there anything else out there?

Well if you can try and think about something else when you're not exactly in the need to strategize, that could be one. Like, after putting out the first cards, determine what you need to do then just think of what's for dinner later on. Kinda hard tbh, especially when you're concentrating on the game. There's also the strategy of just smiling though, it's more similar to practice than the training I guess? Like keeping up your smile at all times is the kind of practice I'd say you'd need. Careful not to strain your facial muscles from smiling too much though.

[blue Snow]

So a "poker face" can be good,

I remembered when watched a casino royale movie, Le Chiffre showed as a very cool gambler and no emotion showing on his face. because of that trick, he won money from James bond in the first round.

[Maasdamer]

So a "poker face" can be good,

I remembered when watched a casino royale movie, Le Chiffre showed as a very cool gambler and no emotion showing on his face. because of that trick, he won money from James bond in the first round.

And in the end a straight flush beat 2nd nut boat vs middle boat vs nut flush  .

In other words, just a movie.

[maydna]

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Being cold face to the other player can be a solution, and do not change your gesture, and not think much
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Even on-line they can see if you have a pattern, and the problem is that sometimes you are not conscious of your own patterns and you own body reactions to your cards and other's moves. I believe serious players do look carefully into these things. So a "poker face" can be good, wearing sunglasses as well but apart from training, is there anything else out there?

If they can watch our pattern from the beginning, they can know how we play. That is why we can move from one table to the other table, so we do not meet the same player who can recognize our play and beat us. Perhaps, besides using a serious face, we can also use a ridiculous face that might help us hide our cards. Changing the pattern on the same table can also help us, but high skills, knowing when to bluff them, acting as naturally as we can, can be the other part to bluff the opponent player.

[bitgolden]

It is much better to play poker online just like most of the people here in this thread are saying because in that platform, they can't read your facial expression but only your actions.

So it is much easier to bluff there compared in an actual poker game which can pressure you so much and make you unfocused. Being predictable depends on your past actions and it will hardly affect your future action so planning is really required also based on your cards. But if you have the guts to bluff so much then it will just lose your strong hands as a poker player.

By that, you will end up losing so much opportunity and money while playing in that game.

Also worth mentioning that with online poker, the only thing that you have to worry about is the pattern that you are showing to other players and recognizing their patterns too. If you know what you are doing you can use that sense of being a predictable person to condition others to think that you are going to do the same thing, the art of bluffing to me is to make it so sudden and not slow because your opponent will be pressured to do a move.

I think that is not as easy as you may imagine, that is quite difficult actually. When I first started I had a simple strategy, fold whenever I have a bad hand, and call when I think I have a good hand, and raise when I think I have a "near unbeatable hand". You know what happened?

I ended up losing all my money  to blinds. I ended up paying small blind and big blind and that slowly decreased my coin count, whereas I was actually trying to just wait for my turn to win, and whenever I had a good hand, people knew that I do not get in when I do not have something good so they folded and that is why I only won the blinds in that, so many games lost the blind and few games won the blind.

Last draw was when I got in with a good hand, I had double aces, but someone got full-house so he won and I was out of the game, didn't had much left anyway so that strategy didn't work. Now I look back on it and know how bad it was, but that is why online means you need to know the game a lot better.

[newwest]

Play on the merit of your cards rather than depending upon others. I do play if thinking how much chances are my cards very strong, not necessary when other is playing big, means having strong cards, just could be bluff or taking a risk that others may not have cards, and if you are lucky your lower cards to bring good money for you or good cards too can lose if someone opposite just have a better cards.

[AicecreaME]

Hiding your true emotion is your great weapon when it comes to poker especially if you’re playing on a casino, and I think it takes a lot of practice for you to be able to do this and once you master this one, then you can be a good poker using your own strategy. People look at you, analyze every gestures that you’ve made and by that they make moves. Being unpredictable in poker is a must, keep learning and keep practicing this one.

Actually bluffing is a very hard thing to do when you're in a physical casino, especially if you're a newbie in poker and you don't even know who your opponents are. So practicing it is only good with small bets, more of like trial and error thing. Bluff is all about emotions of losing vs. the emotion of winning, so whoever weigh more wins of course, obviously. For me, whenever I play poker with my cousins without any bets, the greatest way I do to bluff is just simply making it looks like I'm not interested in a game and not looking at their hands every single time.

[Lordhermes]

Is there a way that you can ensure being difficult to predict at Poker? For example, if you never bluff, people will eventually get to known that and it will reduce your ability to profit from good  cards? Anyone there knows techniques or trick to avoid being easy to read?

Send mix signals.
This behavior let's you have good clue on the opposite player's emotions, therefore, behaving in a mixed manner while controlling your emotion gives you a good stand of winning, I don't know any other strategy but that's the most considered factor when playing poker game.