Pot control - Part 1

Successful No-Limit Hold'em players know that it is of critical importance, most of the hands the size of the pot to control in the.

If you have control, you reduce the number of your error, increase the number of opponent's errors and manipulate the odds slightly in your favor.

There are four basic ways to gain control over the hand:

The five most dangerous starting hands for beginners

Poker is brutal -. "This phrase countless times I have heard and told to lose. How much truth is there is see, you very well when inexperienced players while watching, as with the five most dangerous hands they start.

Some hands are harder to play than others. The following examples illustrate the problems for beginners and professionals. The big difference between the two is that professionals are able to fold these hands much more quickly without investing too much money in the pot.

Hold'em preflop for beginners

In a full ring No Limit Hold'em game is the right hand selection of the first crucial step to profitable play. Decisions on the flop, turn or river you may need to meet only once or twice per round, but pre-flop decisions you make in each hand. These can cost a lot of money - or save. 

Money you save is in the long run as good as money won. Save yourself so unwise bets and do not play these more marginal hands. It is quite difficult to create guidelines for pre-flop hands. There are so many different factors that one must note that many players probably argue that it is simply impossible even. I will be careful, therefore, to tell you, you should play this hand, and those not. Rather, I will give you the information to hand, you need to make the right decisions at the table.

No-Limit Strategy: Position Play

Anyone who hands than a few No Limit Hold' em played more familiar, certainly the mantra "the position is critical."

However, few understand what it is so important, or rather, what situations and how the position of their greatest influence on a No Limit game has.

There are several situations in which the relative position of a player exerts a special influence - both at the hand history and on the output. This is especially true if you:

No-Limit Texas Hold'em: Basic starting hands

Introduction

If you start No-Limit Texas Hold'em play, it is best to avoid marginal hands, as this is only connected with a lot of rates, which makes you vulnerable. Have you never played NL, we recommend that you limit yourself to only pairs AA-22 to play AK and AD. With these pages you will not find in many dangerous situations again and you can still win big pots. Playing only these hands requires a lot of discipline, because you will not get involved in many pots. Play with this strategy, you have a lot of time to study the game and watch the players while you play.

This table shows minimum required hands per position in a halb-engen/halb-aggressiven game.

Required minimum starting hand in no fewer Pott

Middle or bottom pair on the flop play

How to play a middle pair or bottom pair on the flop?

Introduction

If you can not hit with one of your cards (hole cards) on the flop, the highest, but average or low card, it is called Middle or Bottom Pair. For example: You hold A ♠ -4 ♠ and the flop is Q ♥ 4 ♣ 2 ♥  Q ♥ 7 ♠ and 4 ♣ one. Both pairs are similar in principle to treat, so we go to the small differences here, not closer. Beginners are playing such hands frequently wrong. One can however improve with a little math using simple.

We go into each of the below scenarios from a multi-way pot (several opponents), and from the fact that at least one of your opponents holds a higher pair.

Sit and Go Strategy Part 4 - Heads-Up

This is the last leg of a four part series, the average poker player provides the necessary knowledge to a beginner to a Shark to be from. In Part 4 we discuss the heads up.

In the first three articles of this series we discussed the skills that you need so you can play for the win. If you read this article carefully and remember the content, you will play for sure much more common for first place than before.

When you reach the final, but you must start the decisive blow. Now that you know all the tools, so use it against the last opponent. Now it is about the duel.

Unfortunately, the blind structure is on almost all online tournaments in such a way that the blinds have already risen so high when they reach the heads-up that is for normal game little room. Hopefully you have collected enough chips, because if the chip counts about the same, it is a very close match.

Sit and Go Strategy Part 3 - Short-Handed

This is the third segment of a four-part series, the average poker player provides the necessary knowledge to a beginner to a Shark to be from. In Part 3 we talk about the short-handed game. 

In the second part of this series we talked about the game at medium blinds there and how you should switch from standard tag game to a looser, more aggressive style of play.

It is now time to bring this style and also switch to hyper-aggressive. Now the fun really begins. Meanwhile, the game short-handed, meaning that only four or five players at the table, and you are one of them.

Sit and Go Strategy Part 2 - Medium Blinds

This is the second portion of a four-part series, the average poker player provides the necessary knowledge, from one fish at a SnG SNG Shark to be. Part 2 deals with the game at medium blinds. 

In the first part we discussed how to protect your chips and at the same time as possible can double risk.

The mean blind levels start at about $ 50 / $ 100 and range up to about $ 100 / $ 200 Probably already have one or the other player is eliminated, but the board has not yet shorthanded.

Sit and Go Strategy Part 1 - Low Blinds

This is the first section of a four-part series, the average poker player provides the necessary knowledge, from one fish at a SnG SNG Shark to be. Part 1 deals with the game at low blinds. 

A-table tournaments, Sit & Go general or STT (single-table tournament) called, are one of the most popular poker has become. 

Online poker rooms offer them uninterrupted. Once enough players have signed in, it starts, so you have to wait a long time never.

SnG tournaments differ dramatically from cash game. It rather resembles the game in multi-table tournaments, as the number of your chips is also limited. There are no rebuys, and if your chips are gone, you're gone. So you must protect your chip stack.

During this series of articles I will train you from a beginner to a SnG SNG Shark.

Poker tournaments - MTT with 3000 players - Part 2

In the first part of this article, we addressed ourselves to the principle of one's objectives and lucky. In the second part, we go through a whole tournament from the conservative opening up to the push- and- Pray. 

Losing players call tournaments with large field of competitors like a lottery, while Winning Players do well long term.

Poker Tournaments - MTT with 3000 players - Part 1

How to get into large multi-table tournaments far in the money? As they round the clock for buy-ins from a $ 2,500 available to be, as often and as long as you can train as you want. 

The great thing about tournaments with many players is that the prices are very high. Gains in the amount of 1000 of buy-ins and more are not uncommon. Reason enough to deal more intensively with a strategy for such tournaments.

Deep stack MTT Strategy - Day 1. - 6000 players

If you are successful year at the WSOP in this do you have a solid knowledge of deep- stack tournaments have. 

As the starting stack today is three times the buy-in amount, good deep stack game is a basic condition for this to come at an event far.

This means that if you are used to play regular live poker tournaments where the structure is often so fast that only the few can really go through a deep stack tournaments, you have to adjust your game.

Poker Tournament scenarios - On the Bubble

Poker tournaments - especially large MTT as the events at the WSOP - are private, enclosed universes when it comes to the right strategy. 

And it always comes back to tricky situations that differ significantly from the typical cash-game scenarios.

Increasing blinds, fixed payout structures, a limited number are chips and the share that you can afford to lose, several factors must be taken into consideration in each hand.

Poker Strategy - Seven "Steps" to the Main Event

The World Series of Poker is coming, and if you have not tried to qualify, it is now about time. An alternative worth considering are so-called "Steps" tournaments. 

Steps are basically a series of sit-and-go tournaments. You have to work through several steps and can end up with a prize package to the WSOP Main Event.

Who does not want to work through the whole bone mill can also buy in directly at any level.

Steps tournaments online are probably the safest way to the main event. Take for example the WSOP Steps Program of Full Tilt Poker.

Poker Strategy - They play a varied game

We all know that it will affect your profits sensitive if your play is predictable in a cash game. The best way to play in cash games, is a diversified way of playing. Certainly, it can also be useful to present at the poker certain images. You must but can also vary, especially if you play against good players.

The best way to beat a good player, it is to recognize its playful tendencies. If you adjust your game right at your image and then learn to vary this, you will leave several poker games won. Vary your right to play, you must learn to interpret the opponent and play against them. Here you can read what that means.

No- Limit Texas Hold' em - Basic Strategy

Introduction 


One of the main differences between Limit and No Limit Hold'em is the position. In no-limit this is of far greater importance, as affecting your decision (s) your entire chip stocks can. If you lure in the No Limit your position taking advantage of someone in a trap, you may be able to win all the chips your opponent - in Limit Hold'em there are only a few extra big bets. Hoh connectors like AK, AQ or QJ lose in no limit in value since you win so although many smaller pots, but larger ones will lose. In contrast Pocket Pairs SIDN particularly valuable because you will almost always win when you hit a set on the board. Big pairs like AA and KK are always valuable, for this also means you can double frequent.

The fish call to increase the sharks

In limit, and even no-limit games you will often experienced that several players calling for a raise ... Sometimes you lose your hand if you go into such a pot. 

In limit, and even no-limit games you will often experiences that call for a raise several players ... Sometimes you will lose your hand if you go into such a pot. Do this, therefore, not a habit, since:

Callen shows weakness

The raiser usually holds the better hand

Do you have a good hand, it should be increased up to you. If you want to just call again and see the cards, you will have to see through easily. Of course there are exceptions to this rule: 

If you hold a Jack (Jacks) in hand and there were already two pre-flop raises, increase should only yourself if you want to bet on your next card, and more than a few people in the pot.

Strong hand, small pot - Part 2: The mean hand

Some amateurs believe that hands can only win small pots with strong. That would mean of course that big pots with weak hands are won only. 

The rationale goes something like this:

"Increases and get called pre-flop is only with good cards, so more likely to hit with low cards and the flop to crack the good hands."

Although this is a logic that is based on a half-truth and at the border of the ridiculous is but the concept of weak hand, big pot is not as far-fetched. It is quite possible to scenarios in which the concept applies exactly.

Strong hand, small pot - Part 1: Their fault

First of two articles of an anti-thesis against Daniel Skolovys recent strategy articles "strong hand, big pot, weak hand, small pot. 

For the following discussion are now ready to order, please read this article .

Ready? So: How many times have you heard the following sentence? "With Pocket Aces win one small pot or lose big"?

If your answer is "never", you wait it only occasionally. It's just a matter of time.

The same players represented like the maxim that you should play in a raised multiway pot all low cards, and for the following reason:

"Players raise and call raises with high cards, thus increasing the chance that you meet with small maps and hits the high cards."

Both statements contain a grain of truth. It is even more than a grain. I would say that as much truth there is that I think it is wrong to label them as "wrong".

But I will now try to explain where the logic error that stuck in what and how it could come to them.