The Secret To Winning Is...

/ Editor / 11 September 2007 / Leave a Comment

... playing tight = the key to success.

There's an interview with US player Jordan 'iMsoLucky0' Morgan in Card Player magazine. In a successful career, Morgan has won more than $100,000 at the 2006 World Series of Poker and $405,000 for his second-place finish in the U.S. Poker Championship main event. He recently got on the phone with Card Player to talk about the new type of poker players.
Morgan plays online. And he tells us: "It's definitely a different game than it used to be. I think that they're talented and there are definitely more people that know what they're doing now than there was two years ago."

For sure.

"It's a lot more aggressive. It used to be that you could win a tournament without ever showing down cards, and you could just run people over. Now, it's almost like you have to go back to playing ABC poker and exploiting the mistakes they make by playing aggressively with the best hand."

So how has the pro responded? "I've tightened up a lot online. It's amazing, too, because I still have the image of a crazy, reckless player. Now, I sit there for three hours and play one hand every three orbits and still nobody notices," says he.

And the secret of his success? Practice. And more practice...