Review of winning poker hand::How to Play Poker for Beginners
Review of winning poker hand::How to Play Poker for Beginners
You've seen it on ESPN! You've seen on the Travel Channel! Heck, you've seen famous celebrities played this game. It's called Texas Hold'Em Poker. As quote 2-time World Series of Poker winner Doyle Brunson puts it, "It's the Cadillac of Poker." This game dates to the old west. Thanks to TV and the Internet, more and more people has caught the poker craze. Not only that, bars and restaurants in the DC area and across the county have free Texas Hold'Em tournaments every week. For those new to the game, I offer some quick advice to help you the 1st time you play Texas Hold'Em. The Basics Some poker games use antes, but most games start with two players to the left of the dealer placing out a predetermined amount of money so there is an initial amount to get things started. These are called blinds. For those not familiar with poker lingo, Blinds are forced bets by the 2 players left of the dealer. The small blinds is half of the amount of the big blinds. The dealer shuffles up the playing cards. Each player is dealt two cards face down. Then, there is a round of betting starting with the guy to the left of the two who posted the blinds. The amount a player can bet depends on what kind of game it is. If it's no-limit game, you can bet any amount between the cost of the big blind and the amount of money you have at the table on any betting round. If it's pot-limit game, you're limited to any amount between the cost of the big blind and the size of the pot on any betting round. Players can check, raise, or fold the hand they have. After the betting round ends, the dealer removes the top card of the deck. This is called a burn card. This is done to prevent cheating in the game. The dealer then flips the next three cards on the table. These cards are called the flop. There is another round of betting starting with the player to the left of the dealer. Then, players decides to bet at the pot. Some will bet the pot, if they got a winning hand. Others will bet the pot, even if they got a losing hand. After the betting concludes, the dealer burns another card and flips one more onto the table. This is called the turn card. After that, more betting is involved in this round. Finally, the dealer removes a card and places a final card on the table. This is called the river. There is one final round of betting starting with the player to the left of the dealer. After that, all of the players remaining in the game begin to reveal their hands. The player who shows the best hand wins! If more than one player has a winning hand, it's called a split pot. Winning Hands: High Card: Winning a hand with one card higher than your opponents. Pair(s): Winning a hand with one or 2 pairs on the board. Sets: 3 of the same cards on the board. 4 of a kind: 4 of the same cards on the board. Flush: 5 cards with that either share a heart, diamond, shape or club Straight: consecutive cards in row Royal Flush: Ace high (10*J*Q*K*A) in consecutive cards (hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds) The Mistakes to Avoid No matter how good you are playing poker, mistakes can be made. It happens to the best of them. If you're not careful, you'll go from chip leader to short stack in a moment. These are the mistakes you need to avoid. Poor hand selection: Playing too many cards, often at the wrong time, is the biggest flaw in the losing hold'em players game. There's a time to be aggressive, and there's a time to play conservative. Sometimes, you have to wait for a hand to come to you. Ignorance: Don't assume that know everything in poker. All the hours of TV and poker books won't make you a poker expert. Playing it in the card rooms and online games will make you a good player. You can learn from other players to avoid the mistakes they made. Lack of Bankroll: There's nothing worse than entering a poker game with a big bankroll and losing it in one game. Before you enter the big games, you have to earn your bankroll through smaller games. Reading Books: Reading books about poker isn't the problem. The problem is that people think they know everything from all the books they read. Reading different books is good, but it doesn't replace experience from actually playing the game online and off line. You should wonder why they put this stuff in their books. Not Controlling Your Emotions: It's easy to get emotional in poker, but it can come back and hurt you. Once you're on tilt, there's no way you'll play like your old self during the game. As long as you keep your emotions in check, you'll be a better poker player. Playing One Type of Game: To be a good poker player, you got to learn how to play both no-limit and pot limit hold'em. Playing one style will neither help nor improve your game. Analyzing Losses: Let's face it! Losing is a part of poker. The best player will talk about the bad beats they experienced. You shouldn't spend too much time dealing with you're losing hand. You must learn from it and move on. Taking the Game Too Seriously: Too many people have taken too seriously. I see this as the biggest cardinal sin in the game. 1st, poker is a game, Nothing more, nothing less. If you can enjoying yourself playing it, you may need to find some other game to play. Once you understand this basic structure of the game, you can play hold'em and even some of the many hold'em variants out there. Whether it be a casino card room, online or your friendly neighborhood game, the most important thing about Texas Hold'Em is to enjoy the game and shuffle up and deal. |
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Review of worst poker hands::What Are the Hands in Texas Holdem
Review of worst poker hands::What Are the Hands in Texas Holdem
Online poker is a vicious game, and the inexperienced player will usually lose all his money if he or she fails to understand the simple rules of the game. There are thousands upon thousands of possibilities with every hand that comes out. This is a guide written by an experienced player, to help the new players better their game and win money playing poker online, or even at the casino for that matter. This guide will cover the most popular poker game online, Texas Hold 'Em. The first and most important thing when playing poker online is to manage your bank roll. Without proper bank roll management, you will lose all your money and have to make another deposit fairly shortly. You may get lucky and win the big bucks on a table you really shouldn't be playing at all. When depositing less than a $100 a .05/.10 cent game is probably where you should be playing until you at least double your money. When depositing less than $50 a .02/.05 cent game is preferable until you double your money. I would not recommend depositing more then a $100 your first time playing online anyway, even if you are an experienced poker player at the casino, because online and casino games are a bit different. Some players recommend taking a shot at the higher levels and if you really feel confident then do so, but you could also lose your bank roll. The second important thing to remember is fold,fold,fold. Folding is thing you should be doing most in poker. There are many charts explaining which hands you should be playing, you can find one here http://www.preflophands.com/. This site will give you the top poker hands, I would only play the top thirty or so hands on here and fold everything else. My pre-flop percentage is usually under 30%. You should keep yours around there to. If a player sees more then 50% of the flops, he's either lost all of his money, or caught a really, really good run of cards. This next site will give you the poker hand rankings here http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-hand-ranking. Choosing the site you will play on is the third most important thing to playing online poker. Pokerstars.com and Fulltilt.com are good sites for the beginning player to be on and two of the most popular. Choosing the wrong site could lose you all your money, or they could even hold on to your pay-outs for no reason and the player could never get his or her money back! So, now that you got your top hands, and you've reviewed those two charts you should be on your way to playing good quality cards and raking in cash. One thing important is this, leave the bad hands to when your in the big blind, and don't ever play them. Some people get lucky, but their luck doesn't last forever. Becoming a disciplined player and knowing the rules and when to call your hands and how to raise them pre-flop is the most important. Another thing I would suggest is to find a chart of the button position and which hands you should call at what position. This is a mistake a lot of players make, when raising pre-flop and would consist of another whole manual. It is one of the most important aspects of poker and should not be forgotten. Bluffing should not be done for the beginner, although most players bluff way more online then in the casino. It is suggested that the beginning player should not bluff at all for the first one hundred hands until he or she is comfortable with the game and understand how bluffing works online. There are "tells" even over the computer folks and you will be able to recognize them and others will be able to recognize yours. In closing, the best way to learn poker is to play online at low limit levels yourself, and stay away from play chips because it's a totally different game. Read as many books and manuals as you can and remember to fold,fold and fold more then anything. |
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Review of poker winning hand::What Are Winning Hands in Texas Holdem
Review of poker winning hand::What Are Winning Hands in Texas Holdem
Bluffing in poker is more than just a necessity; it is a talent. To successfully pull off all that goes into a bluff that wins you a pot of money when you only have a pair of deuces in your hand requires the artistic skill of a DeNiro or Spacey. The unspoken truth about the kind of poker that is played in basements and the back rooms of bars every night is that the guy who can consistently pull of a bluff walks through the door with more money in his wallet a whole heckuva lot more often than the guy sitting across from him who waits to bet big only when he's removed all doubt that he's holding the winning hand. Another fact of poker is that while you have to possess a great big load of talent to pull off a bluff on regular occasions, it doesn't require nearly as much aptitude to detect a poker bluff. This is due to the fact that even the Oscar-caliber bluffers usually don't have the powers of concentration and observation to manipulate their every action. Bluffing requires some major acting abilities--maybe that's why so many actors are hitting it big on the professional poker circuit--but bluffing also has much to do with psychology. Fortunately for you, it isn't impossible to decipher the many psychological tip-offs that will let you know you're in the presence of a master poker bluff. Almost all poker players bring to the table specific gestures, tics or mannerisms over which they have little or no control when engaging in a bluff. In the poker parlance, these ticks and gestures are called "tells." Don't make the mistake of thinking that a master poker bluffer will show as many tells as the guy your brother-in-law invited down to your weekly basement poker game. Still, even the best poker bluffers can't control everything. Another thing to remember about tells is that they aren't necessarily always going to be displayed. Some poker bluffers will only lose control of their tics when big money is on the line, or when they are pretty sure you've got a good hand that they can successfully bluff away. Usually, however, there are one or two tells that recur frequently enough for you to pick up on. The most common tell of a lesser talented poker bluffer is that he will act as though he's been given a raw deal when in fact he's holding four aces, or he will act as if he's sitting on a straight flush when he's got nothing. There are a few other very common poker tells that you should always be aware of. Any time a poker player begins to act a little overly dramatic while betting or raising, it's a good idea to keep track of his hands. If you notice he or she begins to become a little more animated when they aren't holding much, but is more downbeat when they are, well that's a pretty good sign. In fact, one of the best things you can do during a poker game is keep track of the emotional state of the other players when they are making bets. Only the best players in the world are truly capable of playing on exactly the same emotional register whether they've got a good or losing hand. Usually a poker bluffer tends to overact when he's got a bad hand, but some play it the other way and get dramatic based on a surge of confidence. If a player who has been acting rather dour or antisocial suddenly starts to get gregarious and all buddy-buddy with everything that is often a sign he's trying to bluff. Check on the player's breathing. Bluffers have a bad habit of not being able to control this kind of tell. Some poker bluffers start to breathe heavily when they are trying to trick you, while others purposely try to hide their excitement or nervousness by regulating their breathing and taking in shallow breaths. Looking for the breathing tell requires much closer scrutiny because the difference may only be slight. The good thing is that is it one of those recurring mannerisms that most bluffers simply can't control. Just be aware that a really good poker bluff is already aware you are watching him and he may take the opportunity to sucker you in by changing his breathing pattern to show you that he's nervous when in fact he's got a killer hand. Looking at a poker player's eyes is always advised. Many poker bluffers take extra care to control their hands, their posture, and even that breathing, but just can't control the eyeballs. If you notice a player staring intently at his hand while avoiding any eye contact with other players, or else doing the opposite and looking at anything but his cards, this is a potential sign of a bluff. More often than not, in fact, this kind of behavior is a sign that he is going to bluff because he's got a bad hand. Poker tells that point to a player trying to convince you he's got a bad hand usually involve the acting out of nervous tics. Sometimes this will actually get to the point where the bluffer's hands are noticeably shaking. It is a sad fact of poker life, however, that good players don't demonstrate such ridiculously observable signs of nervousness. The only time a good poker player--not a world class player, mind you, but a regular good player--may exhibit such clear signs of nervousness is if there is a bit juicy jackpot and he's sitting on a hand he knows is almost impossible to beat. That kind of nervousness stems from the desire to cash in and the fear that he may not be able to manipulate the other players in raising to make it even bigger for him. It cannot be said that just because a player is exhibiting clear signs of nervousness that he must be bluffing, however, though it more than likely the case. Remember the advice about the guy who suddenly becomes everybody's best buddy? Well, it is also the case that that jovial fellow your brother-in-law brought along may suddenly turn prickly or irritable when he's been dealt a great hand. Often this behavior isn't really so much a "tell" that he's bluffing as it is a psychological expression of wanting to get paid right away. The guy who had been telling jokes and talking sports the first five hands and who is now acting downright surly is probably acting the same way most people do when they know money coming, but fears the check has been lost in the mail. At the same time, whenever a player suddenly lapses into a more comfortable mode and becomes more easygoing and less uptight that may very well be a sign he's bluffing. One of the best ways to tell if you are in the presence of a poker bluff is by watching the shoulders. Bluffers love the indifferent shrug and they are especially fond of well-I'm-just-here-for-the-company shrug. Many also make the added effort of tossing in some sighs. Disinterest is very difficult to fake. You can usually tell when someone isn't really interested in what you're saying or is just feigning disinterest, and the same thing goes in poker. Very rarely will a bluffer engage in this kind of behavior if he's holding something worthwhile; indifferent behavior is almost always a sure sign his cards can be beat. Almost always, mind you. The last and most important advice in learning how to spot a poker bluff is that you should never arrive with a laundry list of tells that you've memorized. If you are expecting to see a guy who shrugs a lot because he isn't holding anything you can almost guarantee he will reveal a straight flush. And just because a guy always blinks when he's raising you on a bad hand doesn't mean he's not going to blink twice when doubles the bet because he's got an aces over queens full house. And that guy your brother-in-law brought along? Maybe he's acting all quiet because he really does need some time to loosen up. If you try to take advantage just because he's suddenly started acting like Merv Griffin you may wind up losing a bundle. Spotting a poker bluffer requires that you begin with a blank slate at each game. Observation is the key, but this advice should serve as a template. |
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