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Becoming a pokerstar
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June 21st, 2010
The Poker Skill Boost Essentials
June 21st, 2010
In order to become a better poker player you need to combine several things. First of all you need to read up on all the different strategies and options regarding what hands you have been dealt. The best way to learn this is to read poker books written by the pros. Players like Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen and several more, all have the knowledge you seek and the skills you want to apply into your game. If you read several books and see all the different poker strategies used by the pros, you can then turn this into your own style of playing. If reading isn’t your favorite learning method, there are several DVDs made by the pros to watch instead. I recommend you do both.
Books on strategies and hand strength are very important, but just as important are books on how to read your opponent. Tells can be the difference between winning and loosing, profit or loss. This don’t apply so much at online poker, but don’t be fooled. There are many ways to trick your opponents playing online as-well. There are written many books on this subject, so if you play much online poker, it’s well worth the money to get a copy.
The second thing I want to write about is the importance of learning while playing. Learning from your mistakes and your successes. If you are new to poker I recommend that you start playing online with play money or small stake real money tables. If you play high stakes to begin with you will need to be counting on luck instead of skills in order to win. Play as much as you can, and observe how your opponents are playing their cards. You will learn allot doing this, and if you in addition have been reading about poker, your likeliness to succeed will be far greater. By playing at online poker sites you will quickly learn to play your cards on percentage chance of winning or getting a card you need to win. This is done by observing the all-in situations as it then shows the winning chance percentage of the people who’s all-in.
Stay focused and be patient. I’m sure you will be a poker star in no time.
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Play Aggressively
July 12th, 2010When playing poker you need to intimidate your opponents. Not meaning that you should shout and threaten them, but simply by playing aggressively. By doing this, they will be forced to make a move against you or fold their cards, giving you the pot. In most cases they will fold thinking you obviously have the better cards.
Just put yourself in their shoes. What you would do if they were to bet into the pot. My guess is that you would think they got something too. Am I right?
Keep in mind that you can’t play every hand aggressively. If you do, your opponents soon won’t believe your hand is good, and will start to re-raise you.
In a heads up situation it’s very important to play aggressively. If you don’t, you will get pushed around, folding almost every hand. That won’t give you the first place in the tournament.
So good luck and focus on when to attack and when to lay low.
Kind regards
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Texas Hold-em Rules
June 22nd, 2010
Go visit Wikipedia to learn all the different rules. It’s easy once you get the hang of it.
Poker Hand Strength
June 22nd, 2010Showing hand categories in descending order.
-Straight Flush
This a hand that contains five cards in sequence, all of the same suit. Two such hands are compared by their card that is ranked highest.
-Four of a Kind
This contains four cards of one rank, and an unmatched card of another rank. Quads with higher ranking cards defeat lower ranking ones
-Full House
This contains three matching cards of one rank, and two matching cards of another rank. Between two full houses, the one with the higher ranking three cards wins
-Flush
This contains five cards are of the same suit. If the hand also has all the cards in sequential order, it would be a straight flush. Two flushes are compared as if they were high card hands; the highest ranking card of each is compared to determine the winner. If both hands have the same highest card, then the second-highest ranking card is compared.
-Straight
This contains five cards of sequential rank. Two straights are ranked by comparing the highest card of each.
-Three of a Kind
This hand contains three cards of the same rank, plus two unmatched cards. Higher-valued three of a kind defeat lower-valued three of a kind.
-Two Pair
This contains two cards of the same rank, plus two cards of another rank (that match each other but not the first pair), plus one unmatched card. To rank two hands both containing two pair, the higher ranking pair of each is first compared, and the higher pair wins. If both hands have the same top pair, then the second pair of each is compared.
-One Pair
This hand contains two cards of the same rank, plus three other unmatched cards. Higher ranking pairs defeat lower ranking pairs; if two hands have the same pair, the non-paired cards (the kickers) are compared in descending order to determine the winner.
-High Card
This poker hand contains no two cards which have the same rank, the five cards are not in sequence, and the five cards are not all the same suit. Essentially, no hand is made, and the only thing of any potential meaning in the player’s hand is their highest card.
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Poker Variations
June 22nd, 2010Poker has many variations, all following a similar pattern of play and generally using the same hand ranking hierarchy.
-Straight
A complete hand is dealt to each player, and players bet in one round, with raising and re-raising allowed. This is the oldest poker family; the root of the game as currently played was a game known as Primero, which evolved into the game three-card brag. Straight hands of five cards are sometimes used as a final showdown, but poker is currently virtually always played in a more complex form to allow for additional strategy.
-Stud poker
Cards are dealt in a prearranged combination of face-down and face-up rounds, or streets, with a round of betting following each. This is the next-oldest family; as poker progressed from three to five-card hands, they were often dealt one card at a time, either face-down or face-up, with a betting round between each. The most popular stud variant today, seven-card stud, deals two extra cards to each player (three face-down, four face-up) from which they must make the best possible 5-card hand.
-Draw poker
A complete hand is dealt to each player, face-down, and after betting, players are allowed to attempt to change their hand (with the object of improving it) by discarding unwanted cards and being dealt new ones. Five-card draw is the most famous variation in this family.
-Community card poker (also known as flop poker)
A variation of Stud, players are dealt an incomplete hand of face-down cards, and then a number of face-up community cards are dealt to the center of the table, each of which can be used by one or more of the players to make a 5-card hand. Texas hold-em and Omaha are two well-known variants of the Community family. Texas hold-em ar currently the most popular.
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