Playing poker is not easy, especially if we play in tournaments because, in that tournament, there will be a lot of pro players who often hide their abilities in playing poker. But hopefully, more casinos will hold poker tournaments so that more players will test each other's abilities to be the winner. Maybe for now, if you are interested in joining a poker tournament, you should practice your poker skills often because when the time comes, you are ready to play and maybe you can be the winner.
What do you mean by hide their abilities? They will definitely show how much experience they have with each hand on the table and it's upto to you how you manage to trick some other players even with weak hands while the other part is cards you are having that makes a strong pair or not but hiding abilities sounds weird to me as well.There are lot of tournaments if you seek for them.
Professional poker players can analyze situations and circumstances more than anyone else, so they pretend to panic and can't do it. Perhaps this will be part of their strategy to get others to look down on them so that others can get caught up in their game.
Maybe it's not a trick or anything like that but it could happen to outwit the opponent so that the professional poker player can get a way to win.
The best poker players use every single resource available to them to obtain an edge over their opponents, for example even if you suffer a bad loss you can use this to your advantage, it is very common that after such loss a player enters into a state called tilt in which a player begins to play more aggressively in order to recover their losses as soon as possible.
While I'm not a great poker player I used this once to my advantage, after suffering a big loss I received a very good hand so I played very aggressively, this made it seem as if I was in a state of tilt and my opponent called all my bets thinking that I was making mistake after mistake, eventually I went all-in and my opponent still thought that I was making a mistake, to his surprise he found out that I had the best hand from the beginning, he lost and ironically he was the one to enter into a state of tilt after he lost that hand.