A Bullet or Bullets - firing and dodging them on the tables

If you like action, then you have to usually generate it yourself. Next thing you know it is like a magnet, action comes to you. If you can not generate it, or stimulate it, then move on to another table as it is there somewhere.

When the action is going strong, never forget your purpose. You are playing poker to win, to win as much as the other players are willing to lose to you. Sometimes you have to loose a little to win a lot. Never lose a lot to win a little. Sometimes you just lay down your monsters after the flop, or in the right context preflop. Let people think you over played a weak hand and that they out played you, that is always to your advantage.

My reference to "bullets" here is to action at the tables. Know when you can buy a pot, know when someone is too stupid to lay down against a bluff. Using a bullet to test the waters is fine, just save most of your ammo for generating big payoffs. Regardless, never leave money behind. If someone is going to call their weak connection, then shoot a rubber band at them if that is all they can call.

Sometimes you have to induce the other player(s) to come out firing first. They have to feel they have the best hand. You want them to get caught up in their false read(s). Let them think they are slow playing you or that they can get you to call their shove. Let them think they can bluff you off your hand.

Make sure though that you are not walking into a better hand yourself, that you are the one with the false sense of security. Odds are that your best laid plans will sometimes backfire on you. If you can walk away a winner most of the time, your bank roll will keep growing. Whatever your average winnings are, try and keep the maximum you can lose at a table under that.

Here is a decent plan. Play at a table to triple up. Lets say you buy in for $10 and leave with $30. If you lose your buy-in on another table, you are still doubled up for the session. Avoid things like tripling up at a table then losing everything to someone else that also tripled up. Move to another table if you can not control your betting when you are ahead but otherwise play well when you are still working on your goal.