Online poker texas hold em and omaha for amateurs and advanced

Let me tell you about a hand I played a couple of days ago.
I am on the button. Effective stacks are 2000. Every body folds up to me. I decide to steal the blinds and then look at my cards and see AA. Well nothing changes in my strategy, let me raise and it [...]

Our first task here will be to define what a bad beat is. Well, it is more than clear that a bad beat is a situation, in which the opponen comes from behind and beats you. The problem is, some amateurs define AK vs 77, when they have AK and lose, as a bad beat. [...]

A whole lot of people are sceptical about living on poker. General population just does not believe that this is a honerable job or activity. However, in the last few years poker, and texas hold em no limit in particular, have been steaming. The number of people playing poker increases rapidly as is the number [...]

Queens are very hard to play in order to win much and lose small with them. I can even rate them as the hardest pre flop hand ever. They are just about the biggest problem pre flop. Of cource there is no problem if no one else on the table is having something and you [...]

The best way ( and maybe the only way) to make real money by playing Texas Hold em, is to understand the way the other players are playing and adjust your style to what you consider optimal. I will describe what I mean, with examples of two extreme cases.

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As I was new to the game, I used to tell to myself a lot of times:”I should have left 20 minutes ago”. I still think that sometimes but the good news is that now it happens much less often.

One of the most common psychological problems of a poker player is staying calm after a bad beat. While 1 bad beat can be some kind of bearable, two or three bad beats in a row really make your head to explode.

Many players tend to think that the only reason suited cards are better than unsuited is the slightly better winning persentage. Not what I think, I think they are of much greater importance than just that.

One of the funniest questions for me to answer is this one: How important is being suited?!? The irony is that the newbs make the mistake of playing any 2 suited cards, while the pros say any two suited cards are by far better than the same cards unsuited.

After writing about KK, I dedicate this post to AK, another great hand to have pre flop. AK is the best unpaired hand in Texas hold em and it is only small dog against all paired cards up to QQ, about 30% against KK and a big dog only vs AA but your oponent having [...]

Is KK easy to play or not?
I love this hand and I hate this hand. It is so difficult to fold it, even when you know you are beaten, it just dont feel right, and the fact is that it only holds up to win about 70% when all in pre flop against a hand [...]