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Poker Strategy
Here we
focus on the poker rules and winning poker strategies for today's more
popular poker games:
Texas Hold'em, Omaha Holdem High Low Qualify Eight, Seven Card Stud and
Seven Card Hi Lo Qualify Eight. The rules are more or less universal for
each of the poker games and the winning poker strategies are those that
are generally accepted by the champion players and experts on each of
the games. There are no big secrets here, but it is the basics of what
you need to know to be a consistent winner.
One of the great things about poker is that the game offers good players a way to consistently win in public casinos and online gambling sites. This is because it is the only game where the player does not compete against the house. Unlike the other gambling games where the
casino always
wins in the long run, in this game the casino makes it's profit from the
table "rake", which is a small percentage of each pot. The house
doesn't care if you win or lose. The winners collect most of the pots,
so they usually don't mind paying most of the "rent".
Along with the information you will need about good and bad starting hands, mid hand tactics etc, you will find a directory to land based, river boat and online games. You will also have the "Best of the Net" resource to many of the finest articles and game information pages from a survey of over a hundred poker content web sites.
Before you
challenge the juiced up tourists and the cigar smoking Las Vegas "rocks"
at their home field,
you might do well to consider this - . . Log on to Paradise Poker or Poker
Stars and practice online under regular casino game conditions first!
. Knowing your poker strategies is essential, but actually playing against
average to very good players is the only way to get sharp at compensating
for certain game conditions, betting position, and such.
Playing the free games is ok for getting used to the tables, but We recommend starting in the lowest limit games offered ($.05/$.10 and $.25/$.50) until you have confidence in your skill level. These very low limit games are good practice because, unlike the free games and despite the low prices, most of the players are seriously playing to win. Many play to increase their bankrolls enough to comfortably play in higher limit games and others simply enjoy the challenge of winning at real money poker.
If you want
to get very good at this game, then it's important to always play your
very best game and play
to win, regardless of the betting level.
We are recommending
Paradise Poker and Poker Stars for starting out because they both offer
a lot of very
low limit games that are hard to find anywhere else. Stay in these low
limits until you usually win more than you lose, then move up to the next
betting level and start over. . . Again, all the things you read and learn
about the game are very important, but they don't hold a candle to time
in the trenches, actually playing real money games against good players.
The most important thing to keep in mind in split pot games is the big profit difference between winning half the pot and "scooping" it all. - It is a lot more than just twice as much. . Scooping the pot usually builds a healthy addition to your stack of chips. Getting half often puts you barely ahead of where you were before you started playing the hand. Expert Omaha Hi Lo players only play starting hands, like those recommended here, that have a good chance of winning both ways. Omaha is a game of "nuts". With so many players with so many cards, finding so many reasons to play, a final hand with a fairly good high and a fairly good low can easily get clobbered by better hands both ways. So after the flop or maybe the turn, if it looks like you don't have an almost certain winner for one end and a decent shot at the other, or the best high hand with no qualifying low probable, you should usually fold up and wait for the next hand.
