Five Traits Of Winning No-Limit Players
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Everyone regular no-limit hold’em player wants to win money. Only a modest percentage of players, however, actually win over monthlong and yearlong timeframes. What factors determine who wins and who doesn’t? One could come up with thousands of little differences between winners and non-winners. I tend to be more big picture-oriented, so in this article I’ll present five broad traits that I see in winners that often are lacking in non-winners.
Experience
Experience is the most obvious trait, and it definitely matters a lot. I would never back a rank beginner in a no-limit game even if he had seven Ph.D. degrees from Stanford and had won the Nobel Prize in economics. There’s so much about no-limit you can learn only by putting in hands by the thousands.
But raw experience isn’t the key. Plenty of players who have been playing for ten years or more don’t win. And a lot of the recent big winners had been playing for only a year or less before they began raking in the money. Experience must be accompanied by the next trait to have value.
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Tags: learning, no-limit-holdem, poker, Psychology
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