What is Street Poker, Pro Playing Street Poker

What is Street Poker?

 

Regardless of the name, 'Street Poker' isn't about the location or individual streets in the actual game. Street Poker is a style of playing poker. Its a mix of instincts, reads, situational awareness (game flow), and most importantly, experience.

 

 Street Poker is similar to 'Old School' poker in many ways, because back then, with the absence of solvers and the ability to play a million hands online, street poker was the only way to be successful in poker long term. Whether you was in a smoky backroom or playing the highest games in Vegas, one would really need to pay intention and be aware of the situation at all times. Not only to know what villains were up to, but safety was a concern as well. A lot of those strategies and concerns still apply today, even with how much the game has evolved.

 

  So, how does 'Street Poker' stack up (pun intended) these days? With all of the advantages of charts and solvers, the game has obviously changed. Its like a completely different game. Or is it? Certainly, with online games and big buy-in tourneys, GTO based play reins supreme. But, what about everything else? How do these GTO and solver based strategies work at the local casinos, the pop up home games, or the thousands upon thousands of underground poker clubs across the world? Well, in a lot of ways, they don't. These strategies rely on opponents using reasonable balanced ranges and similar thought processes. If you're playing against emotional gamblers, drunk people, home games, or even playing in the majority of low to mid stakes tourneys and cash; you will have an advantage sticking with an 'Old School' Street Poker type strategy to Read Souls Get Folds

 

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