| As you become more advanced in your
poker game you need to start to feed your opponent false information about yourself during
the game. You know that good players are watching your every move, and that they’re
remembering all the plays that you make and what situations you make them in. To combat
this you have come up with ways to protect yourself from being easy to predict. One way to
prevent that is to display things about your game early in a game that you will not do
later on. By doing this you’ll be able to represent different situations later on in
the game in a deceptive way to throw smart opponents off what’s really happening. This can consist of showing bluffs early in a session. You try to
make it appear that you’ll play any two cards so that your opponents have difficulty
putting you on a safe range during a hand. Or you can make it appear that you’re an
extremely tight player by only showing big cards at showdown. Whatever your table image is
at the time, you try to play in an opposite way in the later stages of the game.
Remember that advertising plays only works against good
players who are experienced enough to recognize them. Don’t be surprised when your
friends don’t pick up on the fake style you’re trying to display in your home
game, they’re only interested in the cards and how many chips they have left. Save
the advertising for games with skilled players, and it can be a useful tool that could
make you a lot of chips. |
