MATCHING THE GAME WITH YOUR PERSONALITY
Some table compositions are just more fun than others.
Of course, what’s fun for me might not be fun for you.
Picking the table that’s right for you is a personal choice that only you can make.
The best I can do is give you some guidelines about what to expect from different conditions.
Personality and Tight Games
Tight poker games can bring their own form of frustration.
Even if the game is fast paced, with players acting quickly, the money will be moving slowly.
Your won-lost column won’t show quick entries.
If you are the type of person who likes to see quick results, you can very easily try to push things when confronted with a tight game.
Because most tight tables tend to be populated by pretty good poker players, this can be disastrous to your bankroll.
Personality and Passive Games
For some types of personalities, passive games can bring their own form of frustration-boredom.
Thrill seekers are not often happy at passive tables.
Passive poker players are often easily distracted; they tend not to pay a lot of attention to the game,and they don’t have any strong reactions to what’s going on around them.
If you are the type of person who is bothered by this lack of interaction, you might find yourself easily bored in a passive game, and you might begin to try to grab people’s attention by excessive aggression with your chips.
That can be costly.
Personality and Aggressive Games
Aggressive games can sometimes bring on too much mental stimulation.
Aggressive games are for thrill seekers.
Frequent raises by the other players mean frequent decisions on your part.
When a passive player checks, it almost always means they have a poor hand; when an aggressive poker player checks, you don’t know what to think.
He may intend to fold and, if you bet, he may intend to raise.
If an aggressive player raises, it may be because he has a strong hand, or it may be that he just thinks you have a weak hand.
This need to make frequent decisions based on often contradictory information can tire and frustrate some people.
Pick the Right Table / Picking a Seat / Theories of Poker / Betting Theory: The Odds
A Theory of Starting Hand Value
A Theory of Flop Play: Counting Outs and Evaluating Draws
The Dynamics of Game Conditions / Table Image / Player Stereotypes
Women and Poker / Spread-Limit Games / Double Bet on the End Games / Kill Games
Short-handed Games / Tournaments / No-limit and Pot-Limit Poker
