Posts Tagged ‘strategy’


How to Play at a Live Poker Tournament

A guide showing the internet player how to take part in a live poker tournament in nine easy steps.

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Texas Holdem: The Check Raise

There are multiple ways in which you can win a hand while playing Texas hold em. One mistake that novice Texas holdem players make is to go all in as soon as they have what is most likely the best hand. For example, if a player has an ace and a king, and the flop comes with a queen, jack, ten, many novice players will immediately go all in when playing Texas holdem poker.

A better strategy may be to let the other players bet into you with a check raise. A check r…

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Poker Strategy Tip: How To Calculate Odds

In this poker strategy tip we’ll show you how to calculate odds. This can not be better illustrated than through an example and that is exactly what is going to be done here.

Let’s say you are playing online hold’em and you have a hand of 8, 9 suited in a game with the small blind of $3 and the big blind of $6. Then you call the raise that came from one player and all the other players do that also. There are six players in total in the poker room. So the pot added up to $36 or more from now.

In the flop, the cards you can see are J…

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Texas Hold’em Betting Strategy

If you’re just learning to play Texas Hold’em Poker one of the most important things you can spend time learning is basic Texas Hold’em betting strategy. Some of the most important things to learn are basic to poker betting strategy in other poker games as well.

Here’s some very basic terminology, relating to Texas Hold’em betting strategy. The most common type of betting in Texas Hold’em is a fixed limit. In a fixed limit game, there are two betting amounts. The low and the high. We’ll use a…

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Poker Strategy Tip: Semi-Bluffing

What is semi-bluffing? Generally, you are semi-bluffing when the cards dealt previously to you are not so great, but the odds are that they can really improve. If you are playing against palyers that have nothing, it should function just as if you were bluffing. But if your opponents have something, then semi-bluffing is a latent, hidden form of attack. Semi-bluffing should be used throuthfully as it is a powerfull tool. If the cards will come to you then it will lead to a gr…

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