What I want to say is, the best players will realise that everyone has troubles when playing a round, so its up to you whether you want to share your troubles with people you are trying to beat, or dump them on your opponents. Even a 3 can win a hand, and they don’t know what you have, so why not just play it? You are trying to play a battle of wits, fair enough some times you know someone has the ‘nuts’ (unbeatable hand) then fold away. But for all your opponents know you have a flush, straight or whatever.
Players need to realise a hand is only as bad as it is played, professional players can win with 3, 7 or 2,6 purely because they are putting their trouble hands on the heads of their less experienced players. I can see what a lot of people will be thinking, O.K so I play this rubbish hand and get called then I get called an idiot for playing that hand. But then my argument would be that it is my money and I will play whichever hand I like, and also it did make you think twice, or it did win so it clearly wasn’t that bad.
In summery, I would like to suggest to up and coming players that before you fold you trouble hand, think, you are playing a percentage game, not only for what comes down on the flop, but how likely your rivals are to call your cards. I would suggest that this tactic works best in live games rather than online lounges, purely because you don’t know if your playing a pro or a novice. The aim of poker is to convince your opponents that you have the ‘nuts’, not that you do, you just need to make them think you do.
