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In poker, the fastest way to climb the ladder in stakes is to play a tight-aggressive style and be conservative with your bankroll (make sure you have plenty to
by danenania 8y ago
In poker, the fastest way to climb the ladder in stakes is to play a tight-aggressive style and be conservative with your bankroll (make sure you have plenty to cover the variance of the stakes you’re playing), but also occasionally take ‘shots’ at higher levels with a small portion of your bankroll. If you run good during your shot, you stay at the higher level. Otherwise, you move back down to rebuild.
In short, you take frequent calculated risks when the downside of failure is low. I think a similar strategy can be very effective in life.
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- test6554 8y agoOne of my most lucrative life decisions is to not play poker.
- perfmode 8y agopoker has made me a better thinker and risk taker. and i haven’t really played poker in the past 12 years.
- rubicon33 8y agoThis gets broken down and fails against skilled players who are adept at noticing conservative play styles just like this. It's quickly punished by small pots on what should be big wins. The trick isn't just conservative play, but deceptive and difficult to track play with an underlying trend of conservatism.
- danenania 8y agoI didn't say you should play conservatively, but that you should (generally) manage your bankroll conservatively. These are very different things.
- antisthenes 8y agoPlaying against skilled players is not how money in poker is made. If you're playing against 9 other skilled players, money will mostly move around the table, and the only winner will end up being the casino due to rake. The easiest way to increase profitability in poker is to play against people significantly worse than you are. Not unlike life, where the biggest factor of success is being born in the right country to the right parents.