Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
There are really three main styles of play
There are really three main styles of play in no-limit holdem, and variations of those in between. You can play a more passive style, and trap your opponents, reacting to how they play the game. You can play a more aggressive style, and attempt to force your opponents to react to you with the hopes they will react incorrectly and make a big mistake. Finally, you can play a more balanced approach where you strive to be aggressive in the most ideal spots, trap in some situations, and overall are aggressive, but not to the extent where your opponents are forced to react to your play.
There are variations of these three styles
There are variations of these three styles but the main points are clear. Are you looking to play a more balanced game, a trapping game, or a very aggressive game? It's generally best to find a game strategy that fits your psychology the best, and become really good at it. That doesn't mean you can't at some point learn all three approaches, but it's good to have a go-to mode that you feel you'll excel at the most. Then as you learn the other approaches, you adapt and play those styles based on how the tables and your opponents are playing.