Being unpredictable

[joker_josue]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

[Lucasgabd]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

really cool indeed!
but there's that, sometimes its hard to emulate chaotic behavior in a controlled way, so we can become predictable again even by trying to be unpredictable.

another exercise that helps me is imagining I'm out of my body, like a camera, looking at the situation, and how I'm behaving there.

[delfastTions]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

A really fun way.  Your acting teacher is great and he is absolutely right.  Hiding under such masks, you can certainly fool the enemy several times, but then it will no longer work.  They will figure you out.  True, if it is already possible to disrupt the winnings on this scheme, then it is good, but you must have time to leave. 
I think that this method does not work among professional players, they know the language of facial expressions very well and how less experienced players use it.  So this advice is good for playing poker with your family or close friends.  You can definitely win against them.

[abel1337]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

Yeah, Using the same expression on the same card situation could make you even more predictable but putting different reactions or random reactions to a card could somehow make you more unpredictable.

There are people who are very good at reading their opponent's body language, They are very good at noticing some unconscious habits so, if I got opponents like this I am trying my best to have a poker face look or try to show random habits that I am not really doing.

[semobo]

In the big tournaments, everything you do while playing poker will be noticed and the players have the deep analysis about your character and behaving on table so yes it is very important to be unpredictable and never show any kind of emotions when you get good combination of cards or the worst one then only you can bluff with the bet amount.

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

So you are being predictable, right? This strategy will work few times but once the players get used to your condition then they can find out which combination of card with your bluffing strategy itself that is why showing no emotions whether you have good cards or bad cards is the best ever strategy at the competitive level of poker.

[maydna]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

Still, his imagination can not always work many times, especially if he meets a pro poker player because the pro poker player will know if someone is trying to bluff him or have a good card. It is hard to play with our expressions because we can forget that we are bluffing them, especially if we are really sure with our cards.

But if that strategy really works for him, he can still try to use that strategy, but I remind him always to use different strategies to confuse his opponent with your expression.

[joker_josue]

But if that strategy really works for him, he can still try to use that strategy, but I remind him always to use different strategies to confuse his opponent with your expression.

In addition, we must not forget that the other players also have cards in hand, and they can really have a good game. That's why poker is so unpredictable.

[BuNga_cute]

But if that strategy really works for him, he can still try to use that strategy, but I remind him always to use different strategies to confuse his opponent with your expression.

In addition, we must not forget that the other players also have cards in hand, and they can really have a good game. That's why poker is so unpredictable.

Interestingly, poker is always unpredictable gambling game, there are many possibilities that can happen in the game of poker. Depending on
the cards in each player's have in their hand that ultimately determines the result, therefore a strategy is needed that makes the opponent
confused and ultimately influenced to make mistakes. One strategy that can be done is how to make our expression difficult to read against
the opponent. And it takes practice to adjust our expressions, so that we can really make us unpredictable by the opponent.

[Lucasgabd]

When I play poker, I imagine to myself, I just ate a very sour lemon.  

My opponents are trying to guess what I am thinking, but they are confused by my twisted face.  

They think I have bad cards in my hands.  However, it is not!  I have winning combinations of cards and my expression is just a bluff!  This trick was taught to me by my personal acting teacher.  

At the same time, when I have bad cards in my hands, then I act differently.  I imagine myself eating a meringue cake.  I have a blissful and slightly silly expression on my face.  

My opponents think that I have great cards and lose.

An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

Yeah, Using the same expression on the same card situation could make you even more predictable but putting different reactions or random reactions to a card could somehow make you more unpredictable.

There are people who are very good at reading their opponent's body language, They are very good at noticing some unconscious habits so, if I got opponents like this I am trying my best to have a poker face look or try to show random habits that I am not really doing.

yes, like that story where the young guy always lays the village yelling that wolfs were coming, and it was always a lie.
then when it finally happened nobody believed him.

Bob Marley used to say:
You can fool some people, some times, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

bringing some randomness to your bluffs will help you on the game, for sure.

[Betwrong]

I don't think that memorising cards is needed in poker. We won't really see the cards of our opponents, except of the table is being streamed online, that we could see other cards but this usually happens with a 5 to 30 minute delay. The only thing that we need is a poker strategy to play by, for that we will need to be able to calculate our chances of winning. This should be not so difficult if we don't multiple table many games. But since many people like to play fast online with many table at once, it makes more sense to create a chart for our hands we play with and our hands we fold. Such an strategy makes it very easy for us to decide which hands we want to focus on.

Each people will have their way to play poker so perhaps, memorizing cards will be one of many ways for them to win. Calculating the chances of winning is the other way to help us to win but not many of them can calculate with the right. We could miss the calculation if we don't have much experience playing poker card games.

Talking about Texas hold 'em, there's really nothing to memorize there. If you mean you can memorize with what cards a particular player was raising/calling in that rare case when he/she decides to show cards when finally folding or losing, those cards are most likely they want you to memorize, to mislead you about their way of playing.

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An interesting strategy. As long as you don't go overboard, it can work.
Now you can not abuse this strategy, otherwise it can become a standard, and easily perceived by opponents.

Exactly. You can't play with the same strategy all the time. And when I'm saying this, I don't mean months or weeks. No. You can't play with the same strategy even within one 3-4 hour tournament, if you want to finish ITM.

[maydna]

I don't think that memorising cards is needed in poker. We won't really see the cards of our opponents, except of the table is being streamed online, that we could see other cards but this usually happens with a 5 to 30 minute delay. The only thing that we need is a poker strategy to play by, for that we will need to be able to calculate our chances of winning. This should be not so difficult if we don't multiple table many games. But since many people like to play fast online with many table at once, it makes more sense to create a chart for our hands we play with and our hands we fold. Such an strategy makes it very easy for us to decide which hands we want to focus on.

Each people will have their way to play poker so perhaps, memorizing cards will be one of many ways for them to win. Calculating the chances of winning is the other way to help us to win but not many of them can calculate with the right. We could miss the calculation if we don't have much experience playing poker card games.

Talking about Texas hold 'em, there's really nothing to memorize there. If you mean you can memorize with what cards a particular player was raising/calling in that rare case when he/she decides to show cards when finally folding or losing, those cards are most likely they want you to memorize, to mislead you about their way of playing.

If Texas hold'em in Facebook, that is one old game that I played before with my friends. I can't memorize the cards, but many of my friends can do that. Perhaps, that can work for some people and not for others because playing poker games needs many things to win, and that is not easy.

If that is poker online, we can not use the way we use offline poker, and we need to find another way to trick the opponent.

[Lucasgabd]

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If Texas hold'em in Facebook, that is one old game that I played before with my friends. I can't memorize the cards, but many of my friends can do that. Perhaps, that can work for some people and not for others because playing poker games needs many things to win, and that is not easy.

If that is poker online, we can not use the way we use offline poker, and we need to find another way to trick the opponent.

would you say that the techniques and tricks for online and offline pocker are almost like 2 different games?
with similar rules
or its not as different as that?

[dunfida]

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If Texas hold'em in Facebook, that is one old game that I played before with my friends. I can't memorize the cards, but many of my friends can do that. Perhaps, that can work for some people and not for others because playing poker games needs many things to win, and that is not easy.

If that is poker online, we can not use the way we use offline poker, and we need to find another way to trick the opponent.

would you say that the techniques and tricks for online and offline pocker are almost like 2 different games?
with similar rules
or its not as different as that?

Rules are just the same but on how the game is played in some essence would really be different and you can tell it out directly on just by seeing both situations.

[maydna]

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If Texas hold'em in Facebook, that is one old game that I played before with my friends. I can't memorize the cards, but many of my friends can do that. Perhaps, that can work for some people and not for others because playing poker games needs many things to win, and that is not easy.

If that is poker online, we can not use the way we use offline poker, and we need to find another way to trick the opponent.

would you say that the techniques and tricks for online and offline pocker are almost like 2 different games?
with similar rules
or its not as different as that?

I guess so. The technique can be the same, but the tricks might not the same because we can't bluff the other opponent directly as we can't see their face. You can use the technique that you already usually used, and you can have a chance to win.

I think the rules can be the same because poker games will have the same rules, whether offline or online. Perhaps, each offline and online casino can additional rules in the table, but the basic rules will be the same.

[joker_josue]

would you say that the techniques and tricks for online and offline pocker are almost like 2 different games?
with similar rules
or its not as different as that?

The main rules will be the same.

Now, the way of playing has to be different.
In the offline game, bluffing can involve several aspects, such as facial expression and table posture.
In the online game, these aspects no longer apply. Therefore, the only bluff that can be used is the level of betting behavior, and whether or not to go to the game.

[BlackFor3st]

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?

Not an expert but usually in order to avoid being read by the other player is that what comes to my mind first that's the thing I will do, an example it comes to my mind that I will bluff then that's what i'm going to do. I'm not quite sure if that would work to other players but I think you should try to discover your own way not to be read by others.

[dimonstration]

Now, the way of playing has to be different.
In the offline game, bluffing can involve several aspects, such as facial expression and table posture.
In the online game, these aspects no longer apply. Therefore, the only bluff that can be used is the level of betting behavior, and whether or not to go to the game.

Many didn't mind really the bluffs at all in online, they prefer to focus mostly in their cards when online and decide depending only on their cards. Unlike in real casinos that there are many aspect too look at like their previous game, the confidence of player in betting or playing or the aura the player is portraying. The only difference poker can be see how we analyse the game is since we all have our own way of playing these games.

[Mauser]

Now, the way of playing has to be different.
In the offline game, bluffing can involve several aspects, such as facial expression and table posture.
In the online game, these aspects no longer apply. Therefore, the only bluff that can be used is the level of betting behavior, and whether or not to go to the game.

Many didn't mind really the bluffs at all in online, they prefer to focus mostly in their cards when online and decide depending only on their cards. Unlike in real casinos that there are many aspect too look at like their previous game, the confidence of player in betting or playing or the aura the player is portraying. The only difference poker can be see how we analyse the game is since we all have our own way of playing these games.

I think one aspect why online and offline bluffing is so different is that you can touch your chips. When sitting in an offline casino we have all our money in front of us, to raise it go all in we actually need to move our chips in the middle. While online we just click a button, I find that the connection to the money behind the gambling is getting a bit lost when playing online. That is also why bluffing works better in a physical casino in my opinion.

[aioc]

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?

The only technique that will work is to have a poker-faced and it can be done by practice and through meditation, I have seen people who practice yoga and they can have no feeling or expression at all if they want, practice makes perfect if you practice over a thousand rounds and you get to use having no expression at all, you can achieve that if you are dedicated to your craft.

[Lucasgabd]

would you say that the techniques and tricks for online and offline pocker are almost like 2 different games?
with similar rules
or its not as different as that?

The main rules will be the same.

Now, the way of playing has to be different.
In the offline game, bluffing can involve several aspects, such as facial expression and table posture.
In the online game, these aspects no longer apply. Therefore, the only bluff that can be used is the level of betting behavior, and whether or not to go to the game.

yes! totally agree
level of betting and also repetitive behavior or not, even on online poker sometimes you can tell after playing a few tables if the person usually bluffs more or not by the way they bet/fold and frequency