Top 10 Poker Myths Debunked!

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While it's true that you'll need to learn how to calculate basic odds, bet amounts and whether to call or not, but the actual math involved is pretty simple. Once you learn the basics -- such as the odds of hitting a straight or flush with one or two more cards to come -- you'll be able to apply that to many different situations at the tables. 3 Poker pros are all millionaires & live exciting, glamorous lives! It's said that "poker is a hard way to make an easy living" - but you'd be shocked if you could see the tiny bank balances of poker pros who also bet on sports and play casino pit games. These vices eventually catch up to many players who can't continue to use poker profits to prop up their other gambling adventures. Many pros are also “backed" by other people and only get to keep a small percentage of their winnings. Don't assume they pocket all of that cash you see them winning on TV. 4 The winner of the WSOP main event is the best poker player in the world! Many poker players consider the $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event to be poker's unofficial world championship, but very few consider the winner to be the "best" player in the field much less the best player in the world. Even the best players are often just a single hand away from elimination at any point, in this participant-heavy multi-day tourney. Winning takes a combination of luck and skill but amateurs can run very hot and defeat the pros, something winners such as Jamie Gold and Jerry Yang have taught us very well. No USER ID 21 Poker is a poung man's game! Millions around the world are huge fans of poker and for good reason; it's a fun, social way to gamble that appeals to many different people, with grandmothers sitting between cowboys and young poker whiz kids wearing "serious business" sunglasses. It's true that many top pros are very young and of a generation that analyze their play with computer programs. But it doesn't mean everyone else should pack it up and call it quits. You'll still find a very wide range of casual and experienced players at lower limit tables. Good players can read all your body language and instantly know your hand! Picking up on someone's body language or mannerisms when they have certain hands is known as "picking up a tell." But it's not the exact science that poker mythology often makes it out to be. Noticing tells in your opponents can definitely be profitable but the simple truth is that they're often hard to decipher and vary from player to player. You need to play a lot of hands with opponents to pick up accurate tells and it's more fiction than fact that good players can instantly read your actions like an open book. Cheaters abound in the world of poker! Hollywood has taught us that opponents often have aces hidden in their sleeves or that several players at the table are in cahoots, or the dealer is crooked and using sleight of hand. Online cheating scandals have occurred, and occasionally players will collude in live games but the truth is that poker in casinos is completely safe. Casino cheats gravitate towards more lucrative schemes involving high-stakes blackjack or roulette. Poker games usually aren't worth the risk involved of trying to cheat and avoid casino surveillance. You Lost! Online poker is a scam and you'll lose all your money! A few notable cheating scandals in online poker have occurred and companies have also gone out of business, stiffing players who deposited online with them. But that's just as true of the brick-and-mortar world; just look at the recent banking scandals.. The vast majority of online poker providers are trustworthy companies that are audited annually and overseen by regulators. They have too much to gain to resort to cheating and already see huge profits by simply dealing legitimate games of real money virtual poker. Some people are born winning poker players! Partially true. Top players don't necessarily read hundreds of poker books but also don't rely on gut feeling alone. You can wing it in the short run and win some nice pots but long-term success takes more than instinct. It only takes a few minutes to learn how to play the game but winning players know how to adapt to different games and players as well as mastering basic betting strategies. 1V #1 MEN 10 Men are better poker players than women! It is true that men tend to dominate the poker scene but plenty of women such as Vanessa Selbst, Annette Obrestad and Jennifer Harman have had success at poker's highest level. It's just far fewer women take up poker in general. The success of female players such as Selbst has helped draw more young female players to the game, though, and the gender gap will likely narrow in the future as far as winners of major events. TOP