Poker Strategy - Start-Up Guide
Here's an overview of our Poker Strategy sections. Our Texas Hold'em Start-Up Guide is meant to give you an overview of some of the most essential, basic poker strategy tips you can begin to implement in your game right away. Regardless if you only play online poker, only play live poker or if you play both. These include:
- What "outs" are in poker and how to calculate them
- How to make proper poker bets
- 5 common traps beginners get caught in
- 10-minute Texas Hold em Crash Course
- What to do the first time you play poker in a casino
- Should I play tournaments or cash games?
- How to determine the winning poker hand
- Texas Hold'em Starting Hands Cheat Sheet
- How to make proper poker bets
- 5 common traps beginners get caught in
- 10-minute Texas Hold'em Crash Course
- What to do the first time you play poker in a casino
- Should I play tournaments or cash games?
- How to determine the winning poker hand
- Texas Hold'em Starting Hands Cheat Sheet
These are the basic building blocks every poker player will need to go from a complete deer in the headlights at the poker table to a competent, capable poker player in beginner poker games. If you're looking to start even simpler, check our basic rules guides and tools for even more poker tips.
Beginner to Intermediate Poker Strategies
Once you have gone through the start-up guides we keep adding on more essential building blocks of solid poker strategy and poker tips here. These articles are intended for people getting their feet wet in competitive poker and who want to acquire the rudiments of higher-level poker strategy to advance their games. You will find key tips and concepts of poker in a wide variety of fields.
Some of our most popular beginner poker strategies include:
If you're new to competitive poker and want to start trying to turn a profit, definitely spend some time in here building more of the fundamental tools you need in your poker journey to play a game where you are in control of the big pots, not your opponents.
Our Best Poker Strategies for Beginners
Poker Strategy Tournaments
Whether it is live tournament poker, multi-table online poker tournaments, sit-and-gos, satellites, or even the most recent turbo/fast-fold poker variations such as Spin & Gos and Zoom Poker, articles in this section will explain everything you need to navigate the unique circumstances of Texas Hold'em tournaments. We've cover the full gamut from the absolute basics to the most important poker tips from big-name poker professionals.
We have got complete guides and methodologies for all stages of tournament play, from the first half hour (early stages) to the bubble to the end game and climbing the payout ladder. Want to learn about ICM? We cover that too. Reading and assimilating our tournament strategy guide and poker tips will take your tournament game to a higher level and you will win much more often. All the best poker players who is crushing in online poker are studying, getting poker tips from other poker players and can have long discussions about one specific poker hand.
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Read some of our most popular tournament strategy articles:
- A Dead-Simple Guide to MTT Strategy
- 7 Simple Ways to Get Better Results in Poker Tournaments
- A Step-By-Step Guide to the Independent Chip Model ICM
- How to Make a Profit Playing Spin & Gos
- Daniel Negreanu's 7 Tips for Modern Tournament Poker
Poker Strategy Cash Games
Cash games involve very different strategies from tournament play and the very best poker players are well aware of this and can adjust. In our cash game strategy section you will find a number of specific articles for all the nuances of deep-stacked cash games from Limit or No-Limit and the mid-stakes to the microstakes. Note, however, that most tips packed into our cash game section can also often apply to any type of poker game regardless if you play online poker or play tournaments! Don't hesitate to perfect your learning with these items even if cash games aren't your usual cup of tea.
Read more: Poker Cash Game Strategies
Some of our more popular poker cash game strategy articles:
- How Thinking in Ranges Drastically Improves Your Poker Game
- How to Beat Microstakes Poker Cash Games
- How to Beat Zoom Poker on PokerStars
- A Beginner's Guide to 3-Betting in Poker
- How to Size Your Poker Bets Properly
Poker Strategy Omaha, Stud & More
Poker is not just Hold'em! In fact the history of poker tells us the Texas Holdem era we are in now is just a very small part of the game's storied and romantic past. 5-Card Draw, 7-Card Stud, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, Courchevel, Chinese Poker, Badugi, Badeucy, Mixed Games ... there is a veritable rainbow of poker games out there to be learned and enjoyed and, in fact, have been the dominant forms of poker for far longer than Holdem. Just think of all the western movies, they are not sitting at a poker table playing Hold'em.
If you've found your entry point to the game of poker via Holdem that is truly great. But there is a big world of great games out there to explore so we hope you dig into our strategy articles on other poker variants and take a stab at some new games. Maybe finds some poker sites online and try them at first. We've got a big section on Omaha poker in particular but Stud, 2-7 Lowball, Draw games and mixed games articles are all there too, we hope, pique your interest in the wider poker world.
Insider Poker Tip: The advantage of progressing in poker games less practiced by most is you will find a lot of soft games you can profit from, just remember to evaluate your poker hand, play tight and not with more money than you can afford to lose, always play responsibly!
Read more: Omaha Poker Strategies
Some of our more popular Omaha, Draw, Stud and more strategy articles:
- How to Play Omaha
- How to Make the Switch from Hold'em to Omaha
- Beginner's Guide to 7-Card Stud
- Beginner's Guide to 2-7 Triple Draw: Starting Hands to Golden Rules
Poker Strategy - Math, Odds & Bankroll
Think poker math is to complicated to understand? Think you'll never be able to calculate your pot odds, implied odds and real-time outs at the table without having a calculator by your side? Dont worry, we are here to tell you poker math is not really all that hard. There are shortcuts and tricks you can use to get good estimates of your odds and outs very easily. And once you get a handle on the basics the advance poker math is not far from your grasp either.
How much money do you really need to play poker? We handle that one too, in our Poker Bankroll Management section. Dabble in our poker math, poker odds and poker bankroll strategy articles and you will feel far more confident in your overall poker game in no time.
Some of our more popular Poker Odds articles:
- The Building Blocks of Poker: How to Calculate Pot Odds
- How to Calculate Pot Odds and Equity in Texas Holdem
- Poker Tips from Pros: Jonathan Little Makes Poker Math Easy
Poker Psychology
Last but not least. When talking about poker you will often hear something along the lines of "it's not the cards you receive, but how you play your opponents." So is psychology the most important aspect of poker? In any case it is one of the paramount parameters and without the right state of mind and the proper state of mind, you will have a hard time really succeeding in poker. Self-confidence, wisdom, mental endurance, management of stress and emotions, brain function, NLP and non-verbal language ... these are just some of the topics covered. You can also make use of them in your everyday life, we promise!
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