Well, your just going to have to trust me with this one. No Limit Texas Holdem Poker is an easy game, with no perfect solution to becoming a winning player. Playing in a cash game or in a tournament are two very different things, but you can play similar games when approaching either. So I [...]
Many beginning players will take up Texas Holdem Poker and then wonder why they do not win. They see what looks like a simple game on television and then they try to play the game and find out that they are just donating money to the game. Let’s take a look today at a few [...]
One common problem that Holdem Poker players experience is not being able to get away from the table when they are in a losing session. Players will leave a table early to preserve a win but will stick around for hours to try and chase lost money. As a result they end up losing more [...]
As you start to play more and more Texas Holdem there are a few things that you shouldn’t do in live games. Playing online poker eliminates a lot of ethical things that you might run in to whether you play in home games or at casinos. The more you play, most of these things will [...]
Texas Holdem is an easy game to learn, but hard to master. We have all sat a table with a player who embodies the idea that if you play a straight forward simple game you can win. Playing tight is when a player sits and waits until the cards come, it might seem like a [...]
When I first started playing live Poker in 2006, one of the first people I befriended was a man that was an absolute master at working a short stack. I sat one night and watch this man navigate his way through a field of 301 and finish in 16th place. The event paid 27 spots. [...]
It doesn’t matter how great of a Poker player that you are, eventually you will hit a downswing. Sometimes it is due to bad play and sometimes it is due to bad luck. Regardless of the reason, at some point in a poker player’s career they will hit a downswing and must learn some way [...]
Texas Holdem and poker in general is all about making good decisions, money is just a way of keeping score. That is a good thought, but if you don’t have money, you can’t play. A problem that I see time and again with poker players, both online and live is playing games that are above [...]
Texas Holdem Poker is an emotional game, with a lot of momentum swings and tough decisions to be made. Tilt is when you get those negative feelings, like you can’t do anything right. You try playing tight and can’t pick up any cards, when you play loose and keep getting called down. Tilt is unavoidable, [...]
A question that I have run across lately from a lot of Texas Holdem poker players involves slow playing. Some players are not sure when they should slow play a big hand and when they should not slow play. If you flop a top set, a straight, or even a full house, you want to [...]
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