The Crash Course - Texas Hold'em in 10 minutes

To the WSOP in Las Vegas or just the next casino. Poker seen on TV, wanting to try it yourself? You do not know how to start? Here is your 10-minute Texas Holdem crash course. 

To the WSOP in Las Vegas or just the next casino. Poker on TV, wanting to try it yourself? You do not know how to start? Here is your 10-minute Texas Holdem crash course.

Every few months someone speaks to me and told me he wanted for a few days after the Las Vegas run, and then I hear every time the same question: "What advice can you give me about poker?"

Because this question of this article has emerged. So if you want to try poker times really, read it first, and your chances will increase dramatically.

Editor's note: We assume here that they are basic rules of Texas Hold'em are familiar with the. If you are not there to be sure you read the rules of poker .

Texas Hold'em - the starting hands cheat sheet

Before the profit added Texas Hold'em gods hand selection and the correct way of playing the set. Even a "premium hand" can become a disaster if they can not play properly. 

Since it is beyond the scope even of a novel to explain how each hand is played in every possible situation, we will consider first the main features of some key hands and the correct game.

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.

The combo draw on the flop

There are only a few draws, the flop have more equity than a made hand. Combo draws are so powerful that sometimes they are even favorites. In a combo draw means a draw of more than 12 outs. These Draws are so strong that they should be sharp allude to almost every flop.

Examples of Combo Draws:

• A pair of open-ended straight draw (13 outs against an over-pair)
• A pair with flush draw (14 outs)
• Gutshot straight flush draw (12 outs)
• Straight draw and flush draw (15 outs)
• The rare and precious open-ended straight flush draw

In each of these examples helps us more than a quarter of the deck to a better hand than an over-pair. Even the worst combo draws - the gutshot straight flush draw - against the over-pair has a 50-50 chance! For us, this means that we are behind even against monsters only slightly. Against average hands, we are clearly a favorite. Such hands must be played hard. For a good player it means a lot of money.

Big hand, big pot, weak hand, small pot

It is really quite simple if you flop a strong hand, wants to increase the pot. If you hold a weak hand, however, is attempting to keep small pot to. 

Many players make the mistake of building with no more than a couple big pots, only to fold to nnoch but if the bottom is too big.

I will now develop an alternative strategy and show you how to control the pot, if you have a rather weak hand holds, and how to build, if you hold a very strong hand. Let's look at the following example:

The game is played $ 1 / $ 2, and Hertzian the effective stacks are at $ 200 We get A K  on the button. The two players in the blinds are solid, tight-aggressive player.It is folded around to us and we will increase to $ 8th The small blind is paid, the big blind folds.

The flop is K  3  5  . The opponent checks and we put $ 15 The Gegnr paid. the turn is on the 6  . The opponent checks and we put $ 35 The enemy paid.

The river is on the 6  . The enemy is $ 100

Great Poker Players - Phil Ivey

Phillip D. "Phil" Ivey (born February 1, 1976) is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. After his runner up finish at the 2010 Aussie Millions 100K event Ivey is currently listed as first in the world among all-time money winners in tournament poker. Ivey is regarded by numerous poker observers and contemporaries as the best all-around player in the world today.

Great Poker Players - Jamie Gold

Jamie M. Gold (born August 25, 1969) is an American television producer, a talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California. He is known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and currently divides his time between his activities as president of production for the entertainment company, Buzznation and poker competition, primarily major tournaments.

Online Poker Legislation: The Year in Review

It was a roller-coaster year politically for Internet poker in 2010. The first half of the year was like a slow climb of anticipation up the track, then came the steep drop in June, a new high in July, another plunge in September and a series of loops in the final month.

Poker players got off the ride a little dizzy, slightly confused and standing virtually in the same place they got on.

There is no doubt that Internet poker made more progress on Capitol Hill in 2010 than ever before. Yet, it could easily be argued that the industry is worse off now than when the year began.

Roberto Romanello won in Prague

The last of the EPT 2011 is over - and has found a worthy winner! Not so great for: Another poker raid in Switzerland, which can be differences of views.


On Saturday was the EPT Prague with an exciting final table and a worthy winner to end. The Welshman Roberto Romanello sat down by 562 players compared to celebrate his first victory at a major live tournament. Accordingly, his reaction after he heads up his last opponent, the Italian Emiliano Bono, beat: "I've been trying to do this for a very long time.This means everything to me".