Strategy Games

In club poker, as in any other game that does not have a finite number of states, there is no pure optimal strategy for the game. This is due to a large degree of uncertainty - the players do not know each other's cards. Only limited information is available to them - their own cards, common cards, and the course of trade. To confuse opponents and gain an advantage, players use a number of strategic tactics, such as bluffing (or semi-bluff, the essence of which is to divert the player's attention from the real state of affairs in the game scenario), get a free card, check-raise, style (theft of the blinds). Under conditions of uncertainty, a probabilistic approach is commonly used to determine the optimal expectation of poker in order to determine the mathematical expectation of possible actions. During the game, the bank's odds are usually used to calculate the odds and compare it with the chances of improvement in deciding whether to continue the game.

There is the so-called "fundamental theorem of poker", sponsored by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth: "Whenever you play a combination differently from how you would play if you saw the cards of all your opponents , they win; and whenever you play the combination as they would, seeing all their cards, they lose.

whenever they play hands in the same way as if they saw all your cards, you lose. " This theorem is not directly applicable during the game, but it emphasizes the importance of two things: the qualitative evaluation of enemy maps, the optimal decision-making with this assessment taken into account. But the biggest contribution to teaching poker Strategy Game was made by Dan Harrington, who is also known in his circles as "Clockwork Dan" and Doyle Brunson. Dan Harrington, unlike other poker teachers, considered not only the theory, but also a lot of live examples, taken from personal experience, and Doyle Brunson's famous work is "Super System".
Bankroll (English Bankroll) is the amount of money on a player's account that he uses to play poker for money. Bankroll is usually measured in buy-ins. Managing a bankroll is an important part of playing poker for money.

The main rule of bankroll management is the presence on the player's account of a sum that allows you to safely play at selected limits. There is a conservative method of managing the bankroll - its value is 5000-6000 big blinds or 50-60 buy-in for ring games on the big stack strategy and 200 buy-in for tournaments, the classic is 3000-4000 big blinds for ring games and 100-150 for tournaments, aggressive - 2000 big blinds or 20 buy-ins for ring games and 50 buy-ins for tournaments. The method of managing the bankroll is selected depending on the style of the game and the psychological characteristics of the player and the same purpose of the game (for a game on an ongoing basis, a professional requires a more conservative method of bankroll management). With a reduction in the amount of money on the player's account, it is necessary to lower the limits on which poker is played.