What is the goal of the game and how do you achieve it?
Simple – the goal of Facebook Poker is to win the biggest amount of facebook poker chips possible. This means that the best player in the world is the one that wins the most chips. Even if your goal is not to win chips, but to play the game as well as possible, your success is measured by the amount you’ve won.
So how do you win the facebook poker chips?
There are 2 ways to win the chips in the pot – by forcing your opponents to lay down their hands by betting or by showing down the best hand in the end.
(Usually you’d prefer to take your winning hands to showdown and to bluff your way out with your second-best ones. There are exceptions though- for instance you’d prefer to take the pot down immediately with a vulnerable hand, having no real implied odds)
The way to lose facebook chips is to put them in the pot by either calling, betting, raising or posting blind. So to actually come out ahead, those investments must have a positive expectation. And to play perfect you must always choose the option with the highest expectation. Thus the essential skill in poker is the ability to correctly evaluate all of your options. But you will also need discipline, as having the skill alone won’t do you any good if you don’t actually use it to its fullest extent. But this will be a topic of another article.
