Top 10 poker tips - how to win at poker

Author: Gamble

13 Feb

Before I give you some tips I must say one thing that countless nights have I sat across a table from someone & watched them get plastered silly and throw away their entire stack of chips. I’ve been that person too - and there are nights where you’re just playing with friends for low stakes and it’s more about the fun than the poker - but if you’re in a casino, watch the alcohol. The truth is, while you may be more relaxed after 2 drinks, it may lead to you playing looser and less sharply, even if one’s not ‘drunk.’

1. Practice online before playing live. You can get a lot of hands per hour in online really cheap. Playing lots of hands is important because it gives you a feel for the cards. And playing the cards in poker is the beginning of strategy; the other stuff, like bluffing and reading tells, only works if you already know how to play the cards.One of the reasons you shouldn’t jump into a $5/10 game after winning a huge bunch of money at $2/4 is because as the stakes rise, so does the average skill level of the players sitting there. You want to be one of the best at the table, not the fish who sits down with sharks. If you’re making stacks of money at a lower level game, why move? You’re winning stacks of money. The swings up & down at higher limits are much bigger, and one big night’s win won’t last long at a high-stakes game.

2. Fold a lot. In Texas holdem, for example, you’re probably going to fold preflop at least 85% of the time, and possibly fold on the flop another 50% of the time or more. This is called “tight play”, and it’s also fundamental to a good beginning poker strategy.Probably the number one mistake beginning poker players make is that they play far too many hands. When you’re just starting out playing poker, you want to play poker, and that means staying in hands that aren’t very good just to be part of the action. But playing more doesn’t mean winning more, it usually means losing more. If you find you’re staying in half or more the hands you’re dealt, you need to upgrade your

3. When you do play a hand, play it aggressively. Raise a lot. Raising gives you two chances to win the pot. Your opponents can fold, or you can show down the best hand. Either way, the money is yours. This is called “aggressive play”, and some people phrase it this way: “Raise or fold”.

4. Learn how to calculate outs. Outs are the number of ways you can improve your hand. If you have four cards to a flush, for example, there are nine cards which can improve your hand to a flush. There are also thirty-nine cards which won’t improve your hand.

5. Learn how to calculate pot odds. This is how much of a payoff you’ll get if you win. If there is $100 in the pot, and it costs you $10 to call a bet, you’re getting 10 to 1 pot odds. If you’re chances of making your hand are 2 to 1, then this is a profitable bet to call.

6. Don’t bet hunches. You’ve either got a positive expectation or you’re folding. Otherwise you’re not playing correctly.

7. Learn some basic tells. Strong usually means weak and vice versa, at least during live play.

8. Don’t bluff much. If you’re a beginner, don’t bluff at all. Most players bluff less than 10% of the time.A lot of beginner’s understand that bluffing is a part of poker, but not exactly how. There’s is NO rule that one must bluff a certain amount or at all during a poker game, but many players don’t feel like they’ve won unless they’ve tried a poker bluff. Bluffs only work in certain situations & against certain people, and if you know a player always calls to the showdown, it is literally impossible to bluff that player. It’s better never to bluff than to bluff “just to bluff.”

9. Don’t be intimidated by other players. A good player will run over your endlessly if you’re scared.You must know your feeling.When you play poker, you shouldn’t do it to escape from being depressed or having a really bad day. You start out on tilt — playing emotionally, not rationally — and you won’t play your best. Likewise, if during a poker game, you lose a big hand or get sucked out on and feel yourself going on tilt, stand up & take a break until you feel calm later on. Fellow players will sense your mood & take advantage of it.As you play, one of the single best things you can do is observe your opponents, even when you’re not in a hand. If you know if one player always raises in a certain position, & another has a poker tell when he bluffs, & a 3rd folds to every re-raise, you can use that information to help you decide how to play against them. Once you know that player 3 always folds to a re-raise on a river, that’s when you can bluff & steal a pot.

10. Get a good feel for starting hand requirements. Know the difference between a high pair, middle pair, low pair, suited connectors, and big little suited, and have a strategy for playing each starting hand. Also learn what effect position at the table should have on your play. (You’ll loosen up in later position and tighten up in earlier position.)Another common mistake beginners make is to think that “Well, I’ve already put that much in the pot, I have to stay in now.” Nope. You can’t win a pot just by throwing money at it. There may be cases when pot odds warrant a call, but if you’re sure you’re beaten, and there’s no way your hand can improve to be the best hand, you should fold right away. The money you’ve already put in the pot isn’t yours anymore, and you can’t get it back just by playing a hand all the way to the end.

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