Posts Tagged ‘live poker’

Winning Preflop Strategy in Texas Holdem

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

The style of the players in the game should always help determine your strategy. For instance, suppose you have a wild player 3 seat to the left of the poker table. If your turn is before him throw away your weaker hands. Anything that isn’t a big pair means a weaker hand! He or she will probably raise and there may be a re-raise before it gets back to you. However if he acts before you then you can assess the situation and can probably call a single raise even with the draw hands (65s, 33 etc) assuming there are several callers. Always keep in mind your drawing averages and your pot odds, though — even pre-flop. And they had better be decent drawing hands.

The key is that the stronger the absolute value of your hand the more you want to get chips in the pot pre-flop. Where as, with the draw hands, you want to see the flop as cheaply as possible and do your betting on the flop if you hit. Sometimes a raise before the flop can keep people from raising after the flop, in essence buying you a free card. Free, except for the price of a poker chip, that is.

Taking Advantage of Conservative Players in Poker

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Seat position is important in the game of poker especially when you are sitting at the table with conservative players. If you understand where the conservative players are at the table relative to your position you can take advantage with more aggression. Conservative players at the poker tables are likely to only play when their hands are at least moderately strong.

The faster you realize the betting patterns of conservative players, the more easily you can semi-bluff or bluff your way to improving your stack of poker chips. For example, if you notice that there is a conservative player behind you betting aggressively, chances are he/she has good cards and you should only stay in the hand if you do as well.

On the flip side, if you have a conservative player only checking or passively calling smaller chip bets to catch cards then you have the green light to bet aggressively. If you do not notice these tendencies and simply play the cards as they are dealt to you without respect to your position, you are missing a great opportunity to make money.

One has a better chance of winning at poker if they keep up with poker strategies.

Be careful when playing live poker

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Playing live poker at the poker tables can be very interesting and can be horrendous too. Interesting and advantageous because while you play live poker you actually get to know what is going on in your opponent’s mind. While betting the opponent may sweat. This can be out of nervousness.

One can actually predict the psychology of the opposite person and study his body language while playing with the las vegas poker chip. One cannot be the victim of fatigue, irritation and boredom while playing poker. He has to have a lot of patience. One should also monitor one’s tournament status.

Playing with a chip or even a chip set can be problematic too because here you can’t flinch at least when you get a good hand. One has to concentrate while playing poker. She or he has to only think about the present hand and forget about the previous one.

The person has to be well aware of what the opponent thinks about you. It may be while you are playing with the casino poker chips, the Texas Hold’em chip or even the clay chip. One has to be the highest scorer and has to have the chip lead if he is determined to win.