Poker Tips

An article doing the rounds at the moment refers to novice poker players as being ‘the fish at the table’. In an absolutely ground-breaking announcement this ‘fish at the table’ will be a recreational player with really basic and give-away tells! Now, there’s me been thinking all these years that any new poker player will automatically be an expert and professional.

The fish poker player- so dim it must be a woman!

But what really made me laugh about this article was the way that it referred to ‘fish’ at the poker table as being feminine – a woman. The article emphasizes that a woman wouldn’t know the rules, would always be chatting, would over-play their hand, drink too much etc. Although the article is signed off under a woman’s name, this could just simply be being misogynistic, being actually written by a man. If so, he really ought to be more honest and should really write that he thinks women shouldn’t be playing poker? Or, alternatively, it’s been written by a man who is deliberately setting out to belittle all/any new players to the game of poker by being condescending toward them; a misogynist to women and inferring any male that doesn’t already know how to play poker – isn’t really a man!

We all had to start somewhere.

The reality is, of course, that we all need to learn and start playing somewhere. Perhaps he, or she, has forgotten the sort of gaffs they’d have made when they started playing poker. Poker can be likened to so many other things that we’re awkward at to start with, only to find that we instinctively know what to do after just a little practice. With so much information to find and read on the internet it can be very confusing for novice players as to what exactly they should be doing to improve their technique. For me, well I learn best by reading things and doing things; and what works for me is sitting down with a poker book aimed at novice players and a deck of cards; and just seeing what happens with the hands I deal according to what the books advising me