Be Ready To Act When It’s Your Turn
June 12th, 2010 | 
Author: You'll instantly know what you want to do 95% of the time and you'll often know what you intend to do even before it's your turn to act. When it is your turn to act, say what it is you intend to do. A verbal declaration of your intent made in turn is binding upon you. This will allow the players behind you to think and start to act on their hands while you're putting chips in the pot or folding your hand
Don't Act Out of Turn
It's very time consuming to reconstruct the action and correct sequence of events after someone has acted out of turn. This also means that you should not make distracting remarks about your hand or your intent to call or raise out of turn. Good players do not have to rely on tricks or ruses of this type to win at poker.
Don't "Hollywood"
Don't needlessly delay on purpose when it is your turn to act. While there is no rule against it, it is considered rude in Hold'em to take an inordinately long time to make a play that you knew you were going to make from the beginning anyway. The benefit of this is that on those rare occasions when you do need extra time to figure out what to do, the dealer and the other players will give you all the time you need.
Don't Criticize
You shouldn't make comments that could be construed as criticism or criticize another player's play – even when he hits a 1080-to-l longshot to beat your full house (it's happened to me). There is no need to needle losers or make fun of winners who are playing badly. And besides, you can be asked to leave the game for criticizing another player's play. Even a dealer who makes a comment about your play can be fired for it.
what is comfortable for you. I personally tip a dealer fifty cents for pots up to $50 and I tip $1 for pots over $50. The dealer is not your partner in this game unless he or she is your spouse, he does not risk any money like you do, and he certainly does not give you any money when you lose a hand. The dealer doesn't share any of the risk you take when you put your money in the pot.
I believe that the dealers are not automatically entitled to a percentage of your wins and you therefore do not have to tip more just because you win more. I do, however, believe in tipping for good, efficient, friendly, competent service. If you play poker regularly you will find that dealer tokes can be a significant part of your win if you let it get out of hand. You should look at poker playing as your business and tips as part of the overhead.
One More Tip
Here's one miscellaneous thought to wrap this chapter and get you in the right frame of mind to study and enjoy the rest of this book: Motivation times Ability equals Performance (M x A = P). If your motivation is high and your ability is high, then your performance will be high. If your performance is low, then you will have to determine if either your motivation or ability (or both) is low. I will leave this up to you to figure out how this applies to poker.
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As obvious as it may sound, choose the first hand you voluntarily enter the pot with very carefully. It really helps when you can win your first hand. It will give you more room to play future hands more freely. On the other hand, when you lose your first hand, you'll have to start out by trying to dig yourself out of a hole and that affects your attitude toward the game.
7. Don't Drink Alcohol
Not even one drink, unless you're not going to play poker after your drink. The advantage that you have as a poker player over the other patrons in the casino is that your decisions matter. When you play poker, you're not playing against the house. You're playing against other poker players. And the fact is that, in the long run, good players beat bad players.
When you drink, you give away your edge as a good player and you become no better than, and often worse, than the bad players. If you must drink, buy something with your poker winnings at the liquor store and take it home with you.
8. Don't Splash the Pot
That means you should put your bets in a neat stack directly in front of you so that all concerned can see how much you're betting and the dealer can move the game along faster. When you throw your checks into the pot no one can be sure exactly how much you bet. It's for the protection of all. There are players who deliberately throw six checks into the pot and then say, "I bet $8."
8. Let the Dealer Make the Change
If you call a $2 bet with a $5 check, let the dealer give you the $3 change. It may be raised $4 more behind you and it saves time to just say, "$1 more, please," since you already have $5 out there. Hold'em is pretty much an automatic game as far as decision making is concerned and every little thing that speeds up the game is appreciated by all.
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