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 [...]

If you want to know which hand wins the least showdowns in Texas Holdem poker, it is 32o. However 72o is considered to be the worst hand in Poker, that is because

Here you can find some useful tables, helping you to improve your positional play in Texas Holdem Poker. If you are a beginner, following this advice, you will either start losing less money or earning more. Here, I will show you how to play tight. You may ask, why guys like Gus Hansen and Daniel [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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I hear it all the time! The worst players think texas hold em is a game of luck, the advanced players keep saying luck has nothing to do with winning. Well, I keep saying something else… I call it: ” A game of luck management”.

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.

I have heard many amateurs say either that poker is a game of luck or that it is not. Well, I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I like to call this “the luck management factor”.

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.

A very important issue for new players is how to open the play. This subject is discussed 1000s of times by almost all poker pros.
However although almost every poker player has his unique poker style, most of them aggree, that a new player will improve if he follows the steps I will describe here.

There are about 30 must read books on poker in the world. There are much more that would help your play if you read them, but every one must start somewhere, that is why I will introduce you with the basic books every new player must read before even thinking of playing poker Texas Hold [...]