Bunching of cards, Playing when you feel the warmth(ESP).Play by ODDS.

[buddha01]

Hello.

I’ve been real busy so have not had a chance to get back on here and nosey around :-)

Ok I have a few things I want to talk about today. I am posting here because of the love of the game, to hopefully make some thing worth while to read regarding poker (Hold'em).

-First question or point.

'Bunching of cards'.
Larry W. Phillips the author says the following.

"A mistake in many areas of life, not just poker, is to struggle against the trend." He believes that players who have a run of cards where they are missing draws and having good hands beat should play more cautiously because they're running bad. "Don't just downscale your bets when you get cold, downscale the actual way you play the game," (emphasis by the original author). Phillips is not saying that one should play differently because players perceptions change as one wins and loses, a concept with which I would agree which has been expressed most eloquently by poker author Mike Caro. The author clearly means that one should play differently because the cards have been running well or bad. "Longtime, experienced card players believe in the bunching of luck. ... Ignore this phenomenon at your peril."

Id like to discuss this point and what my take on it is, I personally believe the whole universe is a holograph, kind of not the real thing, a few of you might have seen the matrix well let me tell you some thing I’ve personally been out of body and I have floated around, what does that have to do with poker, well I’m just saying if some body said to me "There are such things as trends, order in chaos, some thing else you have to be watchful of". Id agree, I would try to keep back bit in game and think to my self, is a cold spell?

It’s happened to me, comments:

Moving swiftly on to ESP I guess you could say gut feeling.

Let me tell you a story, When I go to play poker there is a guy there sometimes, he is the nicest guy I know, he is one of those guys who you feel great to be around, one of those guys that when he laughs you like the sound he makes, some one you know is a nice guy all the way through.

I was down once and I had been playing for too long, he popped by and sat next to me, in that moment every thing changed, the cards "went good", the players went bad the next thing I know Id made £400, enough to cover my loses for the night and boy had I lost.

Next time... I’m sitting down and things are dry, I am up thou, any way, I get a 10 jack of clubs, Im sitting there looking at this hand wondering if I should call the raise... guy walks in the door I don’t even doubt it I only wonder if I should raise... I look back at the table (online) and call, the flop.. Two tens and some thing else I raise.. I let you guess if I won the hand or not.

What am I saying, Im saying that if you have good action about you, "good karma" then you create good vision and well darn it as were here, a bubble of clear good possablity were you are almost garanteed to win, and also more importantly, its obvious like a heart attack that this is not your hand, almost to the point of pre flop.
Que laughter.
The universe likes good action, factor in that any how you like but there is a certain speed about being good and if you playing poker.

If you are thinking about why you cant crush them all and start your own porn business (factor in maybe starting your own country while your at it) with you as the main male actor.. I mean to say keep a good clear head about you whilst playing poker don’t tempt any thing out there.. Try it you'll win.

Now continuing on the line of esp. (which not many people talk about) Id like to bring up the subject of remote viewing of which I have study a tad in the past enough to know there is a lot of truth to it. (Basically you use your body energy percept and use it were ever to pick up the vibe or gain possible visual information, that’s advanced) I myself have used it with poker with some success, Even if its to know the out come is im beat.

Feeling or knowing that your not in charge of a particular hand and the fight in you is making it's way down your insides down to the area were you do most of your feeling when your homeless or you just found out your going to jail for life, well that’s the time to fold don’t matter what you think, I remember once I played for 12 hours once starting with £7, ($14) and I got up to £120 ($230) I then closed my eyes and called an all in bet and lost it all, Ill never forget that feeling, in that moment I was death, or should I say I was feeling the other side of what he was using, so the next time you kill some on the table remember to go easy on the celibrations 

The bottom line: May the force be with and if it ant well its your fault.


Now that Ive even managed to lose myself in this post lets talk odds and playing poker seriously with position, early , med, late.

I have just spent some hard earned money on this book
Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players ISBN: 1880685221.

I am reading it and I just cant believe how much more there is to know. I worked out implied odds and semi bluffing by myself just by playing (meaning i started doing it by myself with out knowing the terms).

Id like to hear from a player who has gone from tight agressive only to playing like it says in such books as I have mentioned. Did you see it connect up, have you been able to stick to being a fold or raise player.

How are you doing now that you apply these super princlipes to poker...

Thanks for lettting me post here, its nice to be able to post your thoughts and see what others think.


"So you want to be a jedi".

[george w]

just my opinion but its probalby -ev for most people to use esp when playing poker.

[fishfather]

anybody who has played a bunch of poker has experienced runs--good ones and bad. Also runs against particular players: players who consistently through the night outflop you and vice versa. And so yeah I adjust my play to account for these things.

There is also math, ev, pot odds, etc. and these are very valuable.

Hand and player reading is also extremely important: I love what Gigabet has to say about winning a tournament without ever looking at your holecards.

ESP--I get gut feelings, which are often correct but not always.

Viewing from afar--don't know.

Special someone who brings me good cards--don't know either though I wouldn't mind having your boy walk into my computer room and hang around for a while [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[vulturesrow]

I wonder if buddha was sitting at my table last night. A guy announced via the chat window, that he was a "feel" player. A few hands later after he called a big preflop raise from me and folded the flop what he was feeling when he called my bet. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] To his credit, he said "like an idiot".

Also, I thought Freerollin was the only crackhead on the boards, but apparently we have another one based on the OP. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[fishfather]

Most folks talk about trusting your instincts and intuition when playing.

[mikechops]

I think a run of bad cards does affect your table image. You can pull off more bluffs after you have shown a couple of monsters.

[Jouster777]

Instincts and intuition built on experience even though you can't/don't have time to work out the full situation makes sense.

But people using ESP and lucky charms (people)????? I want to play with those guys.

[Dave I]

Cliff Notes: "Use the force Luke"

[mikechops]

HEPFAP is about limit poker. If you try to apply the advice therein to NL, it will cost you plenty.

[Pokey]

Cards do not have memories.

The fates do not conspire for you or against you.

You did not use ESP when you got a queasy feeling in your stomach after calling a triple-the-pot all-in with TPTK.

Your friend walking into the room in England did not change the random number generator result on the Party Poker server in Gibraltar.

Being a good person does not guarantee you a win at poker.

Being a bad person does not guarantee you a loss at poker. (PROOF)

If people could actually predict the future, no games of chance would exist, and every casino in the world would have gone bankrupt decades ago.

If karma had any impact on how life treats you, most politicians would be homeless crack-whores, not wealthy and powerful.

The world is unfair.

The world is random.

Poker is unfair.

Poker is random.

If these statements were not true, poker would be no different from bingo or craps. Nobody could beat the rake consistently.

If someone really believes that all it takes to succeed in life / poker / their career / etc. is to think lovely thoughts and trust their raw, untrained gut instinct, they will fail at life / poker / their career / etc.

Skill beats luck in the long run, every time.

New agey bullcrap only lasts until your first legitimate downswing, and then no amount of auras or crystals or farseeing or spirit guides will save you.

Forget all that nonsense and start over; if you base your poker career on feelings and psychic prediction and lucky friends, you're DOOMED.