20 January 2011

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.

19 January 2011

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.

18 January 2011

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.

17 January 2011

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.

16 January 2011

Poker Tournament Tips: Check the coin flips

Regardless of the general structure of a blind tournament and your personal style, you will sooner or later fall into coin flips, if you want to win the tournament. 


As the blinds increase and the number of chips is not infinite, it is virtually impossible that you can work through a poker tournament without ever have to flip a coin venture.
How can you make the most of it?

15 January 2011

Tournament Poker

Strategies for good tournament poker for beginners and advanced 

Introduction

Poker tournaments have become increasingly popular in recent years. This is due in large part to the increased presence on television, the growing number of online poker rooms and the victory of the online qualifier Chris Moneymaker with the $ 10,000 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Main Event. Poker Tournaments fascinating because they give every player the chance to win a relatively small investment for a sum of money that changes their lives forever. Thus the victory of the WSOP Main Event 2004 already received $ 5,000,000, - dollars, or 500 times his bet. Moreover, since there is the opportunity to qualify via satellites to these events to virtually nothing, the big tournaments are almost irresistible.

14 January 2011

Poker step by step part 2: Cost Estimates 3-4

In the second part of this series on the different levels of consideration on which a poker player moves, we explain how the perception of these levels, your progress can influence. 


Level 3: As you read your opponents

It is about time that you make yourself think about your opponents probably guess which hand you. This will come in the phase in which the output is no longer a single source depends only on what cards you get. Up to that point gain or loss for you hung virtually exclusively on the quality of your cards.

To understand this level of calculation poker completely, you have to learn to read the texture of a board very carefully and to interpret the betting structure of a hand. You also begin to recognize tells and reading. If you can do this, you can really call themselves a good poker player.

13 January 2011

Poker Step by Step Part 1: Cost Estimates 1-2

Poker is an interesting game, and especially Hold' em. Even someone who has never in his life has seen the game, it can learn within minutes. 
The game is very simple, yet also one of the most complex pleasures of the world. Although one can easily play Hold'em, but to control it, not many achieved after 40 years.
If you deal precisely with the game, it goes through several stages of knowledge and intellectual levels.Actually, as with all things, must learn that one.
Take for example the guitar. First of all you have to focus on where the fingers should be. After some practice, you know how does a couple of chords and consider which handle changes are needed to get from one chord to the next.

12 January 2011

Rookie mistakes - it is not difficult to avoid

Poker is booming and several more. The growth rates are enormous and take more and more newcomers and their seats, mostly online.

Many still know relatively little about the game and are therefore more experienced players for so-called "dead money", so to speak, the money, after which you literally only have to stoop to it from the street auszuheben.Dabei you can with a few lessons already the learn basic knowledge and thus make itself the "ignorant" opponent.

Here are two brief thoughts that help one to avoid the worst mistakes and save you money:

11 January 2011

The biggest secret in online poker

Of all the tips we have received over the years by professional players of a particular stands out: Stay at online poker patience! Everything depends on patience and this factor will decide in the end, whether you will make in your online play money or not. 
It is normal that sometimes you do not get good cards for weeks, and a good poker player learns to cope. It is well known that you can lose a lot of money if you play too high above your limit. If you learn not to play with patience, you can go even faster broke.

Professional poker players are extremely patient 

You will not find a professional poker player who is impatient, because poker is a game where you think the long term. Luck in poker is important, of course, to conclude a profit. But the best players know that the going in poker like the stock market: There are highs and there are lows, but if you have a good plan, it pays to remain stable and play evenly.