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Blending Poker Styles
Playing the fox- Everyone has a general archetype when it comes to their style of play at the poker table; the aggressive internet kid, the crafty old veteran, the cantankerous old man that plays locks and locks only. But, in order to secure the biggest profit from our opponents, we have to adjust our play from time to time in order to keep our opponents off guard and play in a way that profits larger in the long run. To do this, we have to think like the fox; blending our styles occasionally so that the internet kid can play snug for a round and get paid off, or the lock player can get a bit loose and bluff someone out of a pot with a draw. The most successful players will usually play a blend of two styles, allowing themselves to easily switch from one to another without much thought and before players can react to it.
Long Term Ramifications- Blending styles in the long term means making sure you have your two primary styles of play ready to go, along with a third you can switch to if the primary ones arent working. Make them easy to switch to, like, tight/aggro and loose/aggro, or tight/passive, tight/aggressive (although passive isnt that great of a long term strategy, you may want to play 80% aggro with that archetype) and find spots that you can shift to and from the two respective styles. You may want to start out by playing a few rounds of the tournament/cash game using your primary style, then switch to your secondary style for a round or two, and see who catches on to your shift, and who doesnt notice at all. Itll be harder for players, even perceptive ones, to catch you shifting due to the blending of the styles youve selected.
Short Term Ramifications- Something that also comes from the blending of styles is the ability to quickly shift, in the middle of a hand, even, from one style to another. You start the hand off as your loose aggressive self, opening to 3x for the 4th time in the past round with a real hand, KK. A perceptive opponent decides to three bet you from the small blind, and youre both deep. Super aggressive you may want to four bet here, but you can blend back to loose passive here and just flat call, with the bonus of position and a monster hand to entice your opponent to lead out at most flops with a wide range of hands; you can either continue the passive play and flat, or switch back to aggro you and raise it up here. Having the option to shift during a hand allows you to add multiple dynamics to your play that youd never have a chance to take advantage of otherwise; use these shifts and blend your styles, and youll maximize your potential to profit in the long and short run.
Online Gambling: Legalize it?
Over and over again, internet gambling bills are being defeated here in the U.S. This just shows that open online gambling and online poker in America are still a ways off. The country has always been fairly strict about gambling laws and regulations, but seems to give a little bit here and there. The only way to really boost the online gambling industry is to consider the pros and cons of having it legalized here in the country. Here is a list of some of the pros and cons of having online poker legalized in the United States.
Legalized online gambling actually offers some benefits to gamblers, gambling mediums, as well as the government. To start out, we will talk about how it affects the gamblers. Online gambling can be a risky business for gamblers as many times they will win big but never receive a check. There are a lot of scam artists out there taking advantage of gamers. Legalized gambling will not do away with this fact, but it can help you to find better and more secure sites. You could look for sites that are licensed with the state and hopefully stay from any type of fraud. These licensed sites would provide reliable and honest sites for online poker and sports betting. This will also help gamblers who live in states that do not currently allow gambling. There are people in these states that get online to play a few hands of online poker and are considered felons. This would open up the industry to a lot more people who enjoy the rush of it.
Gambling websites gain a lot because they can retain large financial institutions such as VISA and MasterCard who just dropped out of all online gambling sites here in the U.S. Gambling websites would not have to be worried about being involved in illegal actions and can work to improve the site for customers and turning over a profit. This would also free up time for the Government to attack other illegal acts instead of just gambling. Not only that, the government would profit from revenues generated from the online poker sites.
The cons include those people who would hate to see gambling overrun the country. There are many conservatives who analyze the addictive qualities of gambling and find the riskiness of it an unhealthy practice for Americans. Also, there are a lot of sites that would rather stay out of country and find under-the-table forms of transactions in order to avoid taxes on their earnings in the U.S. These few hangups probably won’t come into consideration for a while, however, since the U.S. is still a long ways off of getting to that point.