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Table Image is not something which would be obvious to those starting out playing the game, and becomes more of a factor as you play with more skilled opponents. If you find yourself seated with these more skilled players, you will come to realise that they watch carefully how you play certain hands, and play their own cards in keeping with this. When making a decision, a skilled player will factor in a number of things to decide how strong or weak your hand is, including how loose or tight you seem to be playing.

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Due to my table image of loose at my local game for instance, when I make a strong hand I am much more likely to extract chips from my opponent. The downside is that I have to sometimes have to pay out a few chips to maintain this image. The very fact that players form opinions of your type of play and label you in their mind as loose or tight, gives you opporunity to do the unexpected and pick up some chips. As well as this, I should mention that table image isn’t entirely decided by whether you choose to bluff or fold when you have a weak hand, if you are hitting cards well, you can make further use of this too. Whenever I am getting the run of the cards and have shown a few strong, winning hands I will bluff more often. In your opponents mind, you are having luck with the cards, so the next time you have an opporunity to bluff, often you will find more success simply because you are viewed as being lucky at that particular moment.

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As a player, I have always said that literature can aid the development of a poker player in many ways, and I would recommend reading poker books to many amateur players. More often than not, these books will have details of many different poker variant games, and so you can get a general idea how to play another game and begin to learn it in greater depth yourself. I found this to be the case with Phil Hellmuths book, ‘Play Poker like the Pros’.

If not for this book, I might never have learnt to play Omaha and it’s hi/lo variant. Nowadays these have become favoured games of mine, but it is not just basic rules of games that poker books offer. Having the insight of a former world champion to consult is something which can always inspire you as a player I find, and after reading a few chapters I always find I get the urge to play some poker.

In Doyle brunsons book ‘Super System’ I found a section on each type of poker game written by it’s generally accepted, best player in the world. This in itself is gold dust to any player wanting to advance their game, but the section in the back of the book detailing page upon page of odds for different scenarios, was an eye opener too. One of the co-authors had compiled these lists of odds over years of play, and they make for fascinating reading.

Undoubtedly when you look for a book on poker, there will probably be some books that you find, which aren’t so good as those aforementioned ones, but everyone’s opinion on the game has some value of course.