玩扑克策略——玩扑克就像玩老虎机

　　很多玩家对扑克就像是一个老虎机。坐在那里，按下按钮，并希望大奖最终会从桌子上滑出来。

　　作为一个男人，我知道如何去玩扑克。所以自然而然，大家问了我很多奇怪的问题。下面举例一些最常见类型的问题。

　　“适合王牌，我喜欢跛行和调用一个提高。你认为这是好的吗，还是我应该做些别的事情？”。

　　“只有一对小口袋，翻牌前我可以叫多少？”。

　　“当我有一幅画的时候，我应该检查和呼叫还是积极的玩它？”。

　　“我应该翻牌慢慢打，还是我不应该这样做？”。

　　对所有这些话题感兴趣的的人表示尊敬，这些是老虎机的问题，而不是扑克的问题。

　　我偶尔参与视频扑克在线讨论组。视频扑克，对于不了解的人来说，是一个游戏，一个精明的赌徒会产生一致的优势在众议院赢得超过长途。视频扑克也是一个老虎机。

　　讨论组里问的问题通常是这样的，“在超大型野生，如果我的平手-ACE女王得到合理的解决，我是持有平手-ACE女王还是就两点而已呢？”。

　　这是一个老虎机的问题，在这个场合里，它完全是一个适当的问题。它有一个数学上正确的永远不会改变的答案。答案完全取决于工资表游戏。如果一个野生皇家冲洗支付×硬币和四等分支付的硬币，你可以计算任何老虎机的问题的答案，所有其他支付游戏也一样。

　　然而扑克，实际上没有支付表。如果你把三个分为一类，它不付你三倍的投注。事实上，三种扑克分一类往往致支付很小。偶尔它支付了一大堆。有时，它的成本花掉你相当多的钱。

　　更重要的是，在扑克游戏里，手运胜利完全取决于你的对手打的策略。自己的手本身没有价值。

　　我知道你已经听说过，和你了解它。但当我告诉大多数人这个的时候，他们通常是这样回答的，“当然，我明白你的意思。手没有价值。但总的来说，艾德，我可以呼叫尝试进行设置要花多少钱？”

　　扑克是绝对不会大手和收集中奖，如果你持续用那样的方式的话，你根本不会有所好转。

　　如果有一个家伙谁在游戏是玩壶，有一一零个万美元的堆栈，每当他打顶对的时候，每次设置都付全款，然后罚款。玩游戏就像一个老虎机。不需要等待一个随从，这家伙会忠实地支付您的奖金。

　　但如果游戏里没有人定期还清所有的大手，这是通常的情况现在在拉斯维加斯和许多其他地方，那么一个老虎机方法也不会太长远。

　　译文：

　　Far too many players treat poker like it’s a slot machine. Sit there, push the button over and over, and hope the jackpot will eventually come sliding across the table.

　　I’m known as a guy who has opinions about how to play poker. So naturally people ask me a lot of strategy questions. Here are examples of the most popular types of questions.

　　“With suited aces, I like to limp in and then call a raise. Do you think this is okay, or should I do something else?”

　　“How much can I call preflop with a small pocket pair?”

　　“When I have a draw, should I check and call or play it aggressively?”

　　“Should I slowplay on the flop or not?”

　　With all due respect to those who ruminate on these topics, these are slot machine questions, not poker questions.

　　I participate occasionally in a video poker online discussion group. Video poker, for those who don’t know, is a game where a savvy gambler can generate a consistent advantage over the house and win over the long haul. Video poker is also a slot machine.

　　The questions asked on this discussion group often look something like this, “In Super Mega Deuces Wild, if I get dealt deuce-ace-queen suited, do I hold the deuce-ace-queen or just the deuce?”

　　This is a slot machine question, and in its venue it is a completely appropriate question. It has a mathematically correct answer that never changes. The answer depends entirely on the pay table of the game. If a wild royal flush pays X coins and four deuces pays Y coins, you can calculate the answer to any such slot machine question as a function of X and Y and all the other pays in the game.

　　Poker, however, has no pay table. If you make three of a kind, it does not pay you three times your bet. In fact, making three of a kind in poker often pays very little. Occasionally it pays a whole lot. And sometimes it costs you a pretty penny.

　　More importantly, in poker, what hands are worth depends completely on the strategies your opponents are playing. The hands themselves have no value.

　　I know you’ve heard this before, and intellectually you understand it. But when I tell this to most people, they respond like this, “Sure, I understand what you’re saying. Hands have no value. But in general, Ed, how much can I call to try to make a set?”

　　Poker is absolutely not about making big hands and collecting the jackpot, and if you keep looking at it that way you simply won’t get better.

　　If there is a guy in the game who is playing every pot, has a ten thousand dollar stack, and is paying off every bet to the river whenever he hits top pair, then fine. Play the game like a slot machine. No need to wait for a slot attendant, this fellow will dutifully pay your jackpots.

　　But if there’s no one in the game regularly paying off all the big hands, and this is usually the case now in Las Vegas games and in many other locales, then a slot machine approach won’t go very far.