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 Tips and basic strategies for poker
We can say a lot about strategies and tips to play better poker, but this section includes the key points to improve your game. You must implement it if you want to become a winning player.
1 - Patience
In the game of poker is said that patience equals money. When we say patience it means that we have to wait to have a friendly hand to put our money or our chips on the table. A good poker player will play only about 15% or 25% of the hands that are dealt. Therefore deduce that as good players, approximately 75% of the time we fold our cards and let the other players be the stars.
If we started playing poker online and we're losing money, it would be important to look at the statistics that the rooms give us. If we see the flop percentage we are playing is above 25% then this is probably our biggest problem. * Patience is therefore to maintain the same criterion when playing the starting hands according to our position.
The best way to ensure that we continue this approach is to construct a table or selection of hands before the Pre-flop which we’ll try to follow always. 2 - Be Aggressive
When we get the cards we were waiting for, we must play aggressively, because surely we have folded many times to get those good cards, so we must make the most out of those cards. Many players bid low on these cards (slow play), this gives the possibility to the other players to wait and “build” their hands. If someone wants to risk his cards and search for salvation we must make it expensive and have to invest a good amount of chips. 3 - Our image in the table
The image we reflect on the table is very important, although many players do not realize it. We must build an image so the other players will think to themselves "This player plays good poker." This is accomplished by playing only with good cards, as mentioned above. So we should fold out the bad cards and play the good, we should not bluff at the beginning. * We must secure a solid reputation and then it will be much easier to pull out a bluff in a situation where we really need to. 4 - Study the other players
We must not make the mistake of just being attentive to our gestures and forget to observe the other players. We must see how they play cards, if you are aggressive, if you get scared when someone pulls a bluff, see how the others react. As we have mentioned 75% of the time we should fold, this will give us enough time to observe the other players. We must watch and learn all we can from our rivals. 5 - Consider our game
The simple fact that you are reading this article means that you are on the right track. The strategies and tips on this page are the result of many hours of play and study. You must read what you can and take notes if necessary. As important as the actual hours spent playing at the tables, so are the hours we spend reading books, articles and anything that helps us improve.
6 - Know when to leave
For the players who are emotionally incapable of playing a good poker player many call the "tilt". Several things can cause us to go through an "on tilt", fatigue and frustration are the most common. If we feel tired or we're doing very badly in the game, we should think about leaving for the day or at least take a break. To play poker you need to be 100%.
7 - Choose our game
If you frequently play at a table with limits of $ 1 / $ 2, we have to put in $ 5 / $ 10 just because ours is full. Remember that we should be used to the limits of betting and we should be the best player on the table. If we feel that we are the weaker player we should not hesitate to change table where we can sit quietly and take the chips from the other players.
8 - Consider our bankroll
The money we have is what gives us an idea of where we should play. If we take little money to the table it can not last long if we have a bad luck day. For example in Texas Hold'em you should have 100 times the minimum bet if the table is $ 1 / $ 2 should go to $ 100. If you want to play poker professionally you must have the maximum 20 times to enter the table, called the buy-in. In the former case the table of $ 1 / $ 2 to enter the maximum is $ 200, $ 4000 would need to play regularly (in a safe manner mathematically speaking). We may go to $ 100 since it does not play professionally. We are still amateurs.
9 - Play only with money you do not need
The poker is a hobby and therefore, until our game is not professional, we must never invest too much money on practice. We have to take this activity as a hobby that can help us earn money, but never see poker as a solution to our economic problems.
10 - Measuring our performance
We must measure our results by the game sessions. If we won $ 100 today and we lost $ 300 the day before that does not mean we have won $ 100, but we lost $ 200. Conversely, if we lost $ 70 in today and the day before we have won $ 200, we have a profit of $ 130. In online poker, everything is measured in the long term, but on the results. |
