Learn about profiling if you want to join the ranks of the poker millionaires...
POKER PROFILING Profiling has been in the news a lot lately for unhappy reasons. As far as poker is concerned, good players are profiling one another all of the time. If you’ve tried a “check raise bluff” on the river a couple of times in succession it will have been well noted by your fellow players at the table. The trick is to make sure the third time you do it you really do have a premium hand because someone is going to call you and hopefully you’ll nail them. This kind of thought process is what is really meant when pundits tell you to “mix up” your play. By changing gears every so often you go a long way towards countering profiling.
BE SURE TO PROFILE YOURSELF Funnily enough, you almost have to be more aware of what you have been doing yourself in the last hour or so of any game than what your opponents have been doing. By monitoring your own behaviour you are tuning up your abilities to note patterns of play in others and are making it more difficult for opponents to “read” you. It’s an excellent double-barrelled weapon.
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SO MANY POKER MILLIONAIRES The World Series is only just over, creating ten millionaires at the final table alone. Immediately we’re into the Legends of Poker World Tour followed by the Borgata World Open and so it goes, just like international golf and tennis. A few years ago the lucky winner of the World Series would become a millionaire and that was that. These days the guy who wins the WSOP makes $12,000,000 and the global circuit, driven by the millions of people playing poker online for free tournament entries, is one succession of multi-million dollar cash cow events. A good poker player in 2006 will be able to sustain his career for a lot longer than in any other sport. Doyle Brunson’s heading for eighty with no sign of slowing up. It’s hard to imagine Steven Gerrard tackling Frank Lampard in their mid seventies except on a Question of Sport. The lifetime earning capacity for a young poker player hitting the big time these days is awe-inspiring. If the WSOP top prize has gone from $2,000,000 to $12,000,000 in less than a handful of years the potential reward growth across hundreds of tournaments worldwide will pretty soon out-gross the future prospects for Tiger Woods or the Galacticos in their chosen fields. So if you’re an up and coming young gun, or a middle aged musket, go for it! Age doesn’t matter in poker. As Johnny “Orient Express” Chan says, “It’s a multi-billion dollar pie and the knife is in your hands!”
