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The following principle is key to becoming a successful poker player. Without the proper money management skills, the best players in the world would go broke. For all you skim-readers, here are the basic rules of bankroll management for Texas Hold’em.

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Bankroll management is where you play at certain limits to avoid losing all of your bankroll due to bad runs of cards, which any poker player must expect from time to time. This is called ‘playing within your bankroll’. Subsequently, if you play at higher limits where there is too great a chance of losing all of your poker money, you are ‘playing out of your bankroll’.

The reason why you should choose your limits carefully in poker is due to the variance. Variance is a term used to describe the ‘ups and downs’ of poker where you fluctuate from having bad runs of cards to good runs of cards, resulting in varying profits and losses. If you play poker for long enough there are going to be periods of time where you will consistently lose money, not because you are playing badly, but because the cards are not falling your way. This means that if you do not have enough money in your bankroll to absorb these downswings, it is likely that you will lose it all.

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Poker Tips

This collection of poker tips was put together by Mike Sexton (host of PartyPoker.com and commentator for the World Poker Tour), and Linda Johnson (a noted poker player and personality).

Pay attention

Watch who’s playing in an aggressive or loose way and who’s playing tight, try to play the loose players and avoid the tight players, unless you’ve got a strong hand.

Watch the chips

Always be aware of everyone’s chip count. Know who has more chips than you and play more carefully against them – a mistake could knock you out. It’s usually better to play pots with players who have fewer chips than you do.

No match

If your cards don’t match any of the community cards, throw your hand away when someone else bets.

Ace in the hand

Don’t play every time you have an ace in your hand. However, play an ace if it’s accompanied by a card of the same suit or by a 10 or higher.

Hands to stay with before the flop

Play with pairs (7-7, 9-9), two face cards (K-Q, Q-J), or hands that can make both a straight and a flush (8-9, 6-7 of the same suit). Be patient and fold other hands, unless you’re in the blind.

Good hand? Bet strong

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How to play poker pocket pairs at texas hold’em

Is that a pair in your pocket? Or are you just pleased to see us? From deuces to pocket rockets, our former poker expert, the late Andrew NS Glazer gave us the best playing strategies for every pair in Texas hold’em.

Pocket pairs are potentially some of the most profitable hands in hold’em, but because they are so often misplayed – usually overplayed, sometimes underplayed – they don’t add as much to your day’s win or your tournament chances as they should.

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The ‘coin flip’ – a rule or a myth

Whenever you watch televised poker and you see someone with a pocket pair going up against someone with two overcards (such as Q-Q vs A-K or 7-7 vs 8-9), you almost always hear the announcers say one of two things: either the hand is a ‘coin flip,’ (meaning that it’s a 50/50 chance) or that ‘it’s roughly 11/10 in favour of the pair.’ Listen for it: it’s practically universal.

The only problem is, it’s practically universally wrong. Different pocket pairs are different sized favourites against different overcards. In fact, they aren’t always favourites. J-10 suited is a favourite over every single pair from twos through sevens, if the pair doesn’t contain one of the suited cards, and usually even if it does. You need to reach pocket eights before the pair becomes the favourite, and that’s by a tiny amount.

On the other hand, if you take your pocket sevens – or even your pocket deuces, for that matter – up against A-K, you’re the favourite. Can you guess why the J-10 hands do so well?

To hit one (or more) of the overcards

For example, Q-Q vs A-K, and the final board is 5-K-7-J-2.

To make a straight

(A single card from a pair can also help make a straight, but two connected cards stand a much …
better chance). For example, 7-7 vs J-10, with the final board coming 8-9-Q-7-2 (notice that even making a set of 7s on the turn didn’t save the pocket pair).

To make a flush (very similar to the straight analysis)

For example, 8h-8h vs Qs-Js with the final board coming 10s-9s-Ah-3h-8s. Notice the same river card …. Read more

Texas Hold’em & Basic Poker Overviews– Hold’em terms and betting explained. Full breakdown of Hold’em action, from the pre-flop (round 1) to the showdown and winning the pot. Plus, winning hand, high-card & high-suit cheat sheets. Play your next hand like you’ve been doing it for years.

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• Four keys to staying positive
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Texas Hold’em Strategies – Which starting hands you should raise, call or fold…and when. Color coded for easy use at a glance.

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Fold’em, Hold’em, or Bluff’em? – Three questions help you decide. Plus, how to take advantage of the ‘check.’

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Playing Ace King or Do not overrate Big Slick

Ace King, also called Big Slick or Anna Kournikova, is one of the most overrated hands in the history of no limit holdem. It’s exactly as the pityful sidename Anna Kournikova refers too: She looks good but doesn’t win alot. Playing Ace King is very hard. How in hells name do you play this hand? How in gods name can you make sure you always win Ace King?

AK ?! When you get it in a cash game or tournament of whatever it is you are playing, you get a little bit of goosebumps. Serious research has pointed out that most people go broke or die at a tournament because ofoverplaying Ace King, especially Ace King suited.

Before we go further with the analysis of AK, please hold in mind that not only with Ace King, but with all suited cards, against unsuited cards the increased winning percentage that comes with suited cards is only a percent!

Ok, so if most people loose more than they win with Ace King, and loose at especially crucial times, then what is it that they are doing wrong playing AK? First of all we are going to take a look at the potential of AK, after that we will follow up with how Ace King, in conclusion, actually should be played and how it should not be played.

AK is the best drawing hand. AK can beat EVERY HAND, it is only a big underdog against AA and KK.

The rest of the hands is either just as strong or slighty stronger or a lot worse than AK. Hence you would say, AK is one of the best hands. This is, mathmatically said, true. But it is one of the most complicated and tricky hands too. AK is no

favourite against 22. 33 is. But then again, it is not much more of an underdog against QQ, one of the strongest hand in NL Holdem.

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How should one play this complicated hand then?

Ace King should be played with caution, but also with aggression. Being aggressive in poker is a good overall strategy anyhow, but especially when you hold AK. In tournaments you can be ultra aggressive with AK. But only as long as YOU push. NEVER call an all in with AK in tournaments as you are no favourite against all pairs and only a slightly favourite against other drawing hands like QJ and 10J. But if you are the one that is raising or

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This is a short article to help you play queens and jacks pocket pairs. I hope you will find it worthy

Pocket Queens / Jacks is a hand every poker player loves to see!!!

However, this starting hand also scares more players than you may realize because they don’t know how to play them properly. The first thing you must know is that pocket queens is a very strong and solid hand. Especially heads up. You can dominate most opponents with pocket queens in a heads up game.

Let’s now go over three key Texas Holdem strategies when dealt pocket queens. Just follow this simple advice and you’ll win huge pots!

Table Position

Like all your hands dealt, your table position is key. If you’re in late position then pocket queens gets even stronger. But even from early position you can be confidently aggressive.

Pre-Flop Raise

When dealt a starting hand of pocket queens its important to know that its unlikely that you’ll get more help on the flop. Hitting trips probably won’t happen. So its vital to lay down an aggressive pre flop raise with your pocket queens. You want to get rid of the suited connectors, low pocket pairs and opponents holding king or ace rag. Or even sometimes you’ll push out someone holding king, jack. Typically raising 3 to 6 times the big blind is sufficient.

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Be Willing to Fold Your Pocket Queens / Jacks

I’ve seen it happen many times. A person goes all in pre flop with pocket queens. His opponent has ace, rag. The flop comes out ace, 3, 7. Next thing you know the player is sent home because he got too aggressive with pocket queens. You want to be aggressive with pocket queens just not overly aggressive. By placing a substantial raise pre flop you push out all the crap. Then the people left you can bet they are sitting on an ace or a king. When and if an ace or king hits on the flop you can be confident that you’re beat. Now depending on your opponents play be willing to fold and live to play another hand.

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The argument about limit vs. no limit has become as heated as the ongoing spat over Ginger or Mary Ann. No Limit poker, much like the sultry Ginger, is the movie star of the gaming world. It has flash, dramatics, and scoring can seem easy. Whenever somebody on television is pulling in a big pot you can be sure that they are playing no limit hold’em. The limit game is understated, subtle, and requires a combination of patience and skill to score.

It All Comes Down to Money

When you play either, the cards are the same, the game is the same, so what is the real difference? It all comes down to money. Money is in an integral part of the strategy of poker. It is in the back of the mind of each player when they look at their cards and wonder what to do. Unless Thurston Howell suddenly steps in and backs you with his enormously deep pockets, how much you are willing to lose is going to be tied to your strategy.

What Is the Real Difference?

Limit poker means there is a maximum on how much a player can bet or raise. There are also limits on the size of the pot. Once the pot reaches its pre-set maximum, then all betting is done. The advantage here is that it provides a safety net to the player. Someone who is new to the game will be better able to survive their mistakes because there is only so much they can lose on any one hand. It also requires a higher degree of poker skill to win big in a limit game. By taking away the ability for somebody with a large bankroll to bully and intimidate the field with his massive stack of chips, you force it to come down to actual game play. If somebody is holding a pair of Jacks, and raises by two thousand dollars, there is a pretty good chance that …..

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Different player types

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Since we are taking our starting hands against other players and their hands, what can we expect to see in the cardroom? Let’s discuss some of the various types of players you will see and how they usually play. This will help you form one of your most valuable tools as a poker player, and that is to put someone into a player category. It helps you narrow down the possible hands they could have and gives you an idea of how good your good your current hand is in comparison with theirs. When you are playing, do your best to categorize each player into the following (better types of players are listed last):

Calling Station:

This is the worst type of player and the most prevalent (sometimes called a “fish”). The calling station does what his name implies, he just calls. He has poor hand selection. On the flop he will call with just about anything, and will continue to do that all the way to the river. This person has very little skill or discipline. They will be in every hand no matter if there is a raise before them. In the face of a better hand (like when a straight or a flush is on the board and they don’t have it), they will just call it down. Most of the money you’ll make will be from this type of player. The reason this play is so bad is that it is the exact opposite of what you should be doing. Instead of being selective and waiting for good opportunities to put your money behind you spread it out over every hand, good or bad, and in the end that can’t work. Remember our bad investor analogy above. With these kinds of people in the pots, you’ll just play your cards and see what happens. What that means is that you can’t really put them on any kind of a hand since they could easily have AK as they could have 92.

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If you have a hand (like top pair with a good kicker) then just bet it and see what happens.

You will want to watch out for them, if they raise you though. Usually a calling station is a fairly passive player and when they raise it means something. If you canmake some good folds now and then, you’ll be a better player. If you can’t fold a losing hand then you’ll be a calling station and a losing player. When a person raises and what they raise with is another important item that you will want to watch for. It helps you not only categorize them but helps you select the hands that you play against them. When a calling station raises before the flop it could mean anything but usually they have a good hand (AA, KK, QQ, JJ, etc). Because of that, be careful about playing against them if you have a hand that could be easily dominated like KQ, KJ, KT, etc. If you notice that they are raising all the time with just about any hand they play then you may have found the next category.

Loose Aggressive:

A loose aggressive player is one who plays as many cards as the calling station does but they are inclined to raise, reraise and cap hands that they shouldn’t (like A5 offsuit, Q9s, etc). You’ll know very quickly if a person is a loose aggressive player. A person can’t get great cards all day and if they are raising three hands in a row then chances are all those hands aren’t premium. When you have two or more of these types of players in a game the pots can be very large, but it can also cost you a lot of money if you lose. Two points when playing against them: remember that when they raise they don’t always have AA so you can play against them with hands that you would normally just call with. A reraise when you have a decent hand to try to isolate them isn’t a bad move. The second thing to remember is that even if they are raising every hand it doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to get a good one now and then. So with that said don’t cap it with a maniac player if you just have top pair. That could be costly. Sometimes you’ll find these loose aggressive players, maniacs, only do that before the flop but afterwards they tighten up some. Try to pick up on things like this. Lastly, don’t be afraid of … Read more