也谈Poker的玩法和策略

LUCK SUCKS
By John Vorhaus

我不喜欢运气,当别人运气好的时候我不高兴,还有,我不太喜欢我仅仅*运气.对我来说,常常如此,没有运气纯粹是上天赐予的福气.当然我们知道绝对不是运气让那些意志不坚定的FANS一次又一次失败.然而,我总是忍不住想,POKER中如果把运气的成分拿走,一定会是完美的,运气在POKER中只是一闪而过.

接着我发现在单人锦标赛中,在这里我会告诉你这些SITNGO是那些技术高超玩家的天堂.在那里他们并没有完全放弃运气,但是却可以最小化损失,如果你跟这我写的这个系列的文章来做,你甚至可以比他们做的更好.

这篇系列很长,这里面我会告诉你为什么在单对单的SITNGO中需要工具,以及重新重新考虑很多基本POKER技术和策略.它需要你把这种比赛看成是一盘棋,而不仅仅是POKER游戏,享受它,HEAD'S UP的比赛有不同层次的思维,这需要我们把他们拿出来一一分类,分析,理解.

没有关系,因为我和UB有一年的合同,并且你有足够的在线时间.

让我们开始揭露一些让人惊讶的事实.

1,你害怕玩HEADS UP
2. 你不应该害怕.

为什么你会害怕:你对单对单的比赛的害怕源于你新手阶段时期,当时有很多和你一起游戏的对手,事实上,他们中有很多比你技术要好.在对手比你强的情况下,你会觉得在人多的桌感到比较安全.你玩的POKER,属于一跟就想赢的比赛,想一直跟下去看到河底,如果手中两张牌恰好你很难放弃的时候,

也许你在人比较少的比赛中吃亏,或者在一对一的比赛中觉得,对方,那个流氓,恶棍,总是让你犯错误,本应该RAISE 却只是CALL,该CALL的时候却FOLD掉了,如此这般.你就会回想起在十人游戏中的安全,十人桌的大量的筹码(似乎都属于你的),并希望能够公平的分享自己的运气,从此一直凭运气玩POKER.

为什么你不应该害怕:你的新手时代已经过去.在线你已经有大约7千亿手数的经验.你已经对RAISE和RERAISE不再烦恼,胜负不再看得那么重.你已经提高了技术,在游戏中发挥智力.这时候你发现最让你尴尬的是运气离你而去.举个例子,当你在十人桌PREFLOP AA,因为爆发一场战争,(BET,RAISE),但最后却发现自己被一些看起来很愚蠢的TURN,RAISE 击败.

放弃那些想法,开始自己的单人比赛.在这个环境里,你只需要面对一个对手,而不是像十人桌上到处都是你的敌人.还有,你知道会出现什么情况吗?

对手没有你聪明!

你肯定会问,我怎么知道?很简单的推理:事实上是,你能够来到这个网站,让自己找到这些文章本事就表示你受到的教育更高,也可以使你受的教育更加完善,比一般的你的对手就要好多了.即使是在大学生的ONLINE POKER玩家,(比一般的人应该聪明)他们都不知道自己在做什么,也很少花时间去学习.

如果你可以在单人比赛打败那些准备不足的人,实际上他们已经准备拱手送钱给你了.

你可以打败他们!你可以打败很多的单人比赛的对手,因为这种比赛的形式对那些缺少POKER教育的人很有吸引力.这种人每一把都想采取行动的人.你可以打败他们.

每个单人比赛的玩家技术都很稀松吗?当然不是.但是只要有一般的人不是(我以为远远会比一半多),也就意味着你在单人比赛你会有大于50%的机会赢得比赛,只要你刻苦磨练你的技术和学习高级技巧.

但是不要仅仅停留在这一步,我们不仅仅要击败手松的玩家,我们要有策略的击败老手.让我们带着高贵的气质去击败他们,让我们把自己统治比赛看成我们应得的,并从那些敢和我们为敌的对手身上碾过!!!

如果你认为还不具备这种高手的感觉,不要性急.马上你就会这种感觉的底气了.很快你就会学到你和任何人做斗争的一切,一定程度上,减少运气成分.

那时,他,你的对手就会赤裸的坐在你的对面,没有一切,除了低级的技术.

那时,我们就开始清场.



P.S .写这个贴刚好在BJ大起大落,心态不稳定,想试着平静下来.高级篇的文章会继续的译下来,请多多指教,尤其某些POKER术语,翻译起来很头痛,有时候找不到一个合适的词去搭配,很痛苦.



原文:


I don't like luck. I don't like it when the other guy gets it, but then again, I don't much like having to rely on it myself. Poker, it's always seemed to me, would be pure bliss if only luck didn't enter into it at all. Of course we know that this can never be because it's luck that keeps the, uhm... "weaker-minded enthusiasts" coming back for more. Still, I could never help thinking that poker would be perfect if I could take the luck out of it, while leaving the appearance of luck in place.

Then I discovered one-on-one online Texas hold'em tournaments, and I'm here to tell you that these sitngo beauties are a skilled player's paradise. They don't utterly remove luck from the equation, but they minimize it greatly, and if you follow the steps I outline in this series of articles, you can minimize it even more.

It's gonna be a long series, and I'll tell you why: because playing one-on-one requires a retooling and a rethinking of many or most of your basic poker strategies. It requires that you think of the contest more like a chess match than a poker game, and appreciate that, like chess, heads-up tournaments have levels and layers of thought which will take some time to sort through, analyze, and understand.

But that's okay, 'cause I'm on a year's contract and you, well, you've got all the time in the world.

Let me start you off with a couple of shocking revelations:

YOU'RE AFRAID TO PLAY HEADS UP
YOU SHOULDN'T BE
WHY YOU'RE AFRAID: Your fear of playing one-on-one goes back to your earliest days in poker when most of the people you played against were, in fact, a whole lot better than you. Being less skilled than your foes, you found safety in numbers. You played hit-to-win poker, looking to call along into volume pots and win lots of chips when the cards made you an offer you couldn't refuse.

Maybe you dabbled in short-handed games or one-on-one contests and found that the other guy - that rapscallion! - always seemed to have you leaning the wrong way, calling when you should raise, folding when you should call, what-have-you. So you retreated to the safety of your ten-handed ring game, your volume pots, and what you hoped would be your fair share of the luck. And there you've stayed, stuck. Stuck in luck.

WHY YOU SHOULDN'T BE AFRAID: Your rookie days were a long time ago. You've played about six zillion hands of online poker since then. You've stopped fretting over raises and reraises, wins and losses. You've got your feet under you and your head in the game. Now you find the thing that frustrates you most is when the luck goes against you... when you pick up pocket aces in a ten-handed ring game, go to war against a full complement of Cally Wallies, and get called down (and beaten) by some ridiculous cheese.

Leave the cheese! Go play one-on-one. In that circumstance you don't have to beat a whole table full of foes. You only have to beat one guy, and guess what?

He's not as smart as you!

How do I know? Simple deduction: The fact that you found your way to this site and this article self-selects you as being more educated, and more dedicated to your education, than your average Joe foe. Even among the universe of online poker players (a generally smarter universe than the common population) there are people who don't really know what they're doing and never bother to learn.

If you can get heads-up against one of these under-prepared knuckleheads, he's practically a lock to give his money to you.

And you can! You can get heads-up against bad players a lot in one-on-one sitngos because the very format of the thing appeals greatly to a certain type of undereducated poker player: the action junkie who wants to be involved in every single hand.

Is every one-on-one player a bad player? Of course not. But if more than half of them are (and I contend that many more than half of them are) you should be able to win more than your share of one-on-one clashes, just by dint of your superior knowledge and skill.

But let's not stop there. Let's not content ourselves with beating bad players heads up. Let's have strategies for beating the good ones too. And let's go into the exercise with an air of supreme arrogance! Let's take it as given that we're going to dominate and crush every single foe who dares to take us on.
If you feel that this sort of arrogance is unwarranted, don't worry; you'll soon have the tools to back up your superiority complex. You'll soon have everything you need to sit down opposite anyone and by degrees strip his luck away.

And then he'll be standing there naked, with nothing but inferior skill on his side.

And then you're gonna pick him clean.