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Afterthought: Other Skills
As you have just seen, reading hands and psychology are extremely important aspects of online poker.
Put another way, this game is too complex to play by rote.
If you always play a certain hand in a certain position a certain way, you game can use a lot of improvement.
You must take into account your opponents, how the current hand has been played, how former hands were played, your opponents’ perceptions of you, and so on.
If you don’t consider these factors, you may be able to win, but you never will achieve expert status.
Many of the concepts in this section are most powerful against decent players – that is, players who play poker in predictable patterns and who are capable of realizing things when at the poker tebal, especially if they play “weak tight.”
Against bad players, straightforward play is usually the best approach, and against extremely good players, these ideas probably will only keep you about even with them.
Finally, some players put too much emphasis on the two topics just covered.
They are certainly very important, but they are just some of the weapons that the expert has in his holdem arsenal.
Skill in reading hands and psychology, combined with all the other ideas and concepts that we have addressed, will produce a top player.
But as we have addressed, will produce a top player.
But as we have stated before, this requires a great deal of thinking about the game and lots of poker experience playing Texas holdem.