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
Study Your Opponents' Style of Play
Study Your Opponents' Style of Play Most players follow a pattern of play without realizing it. Some are loose players, some play tight or close to the vest. I know a player who has never tried to steal or bluff a pot in twenty years of Texas Hold'em Poker playing, and I know another who tries to steal almost every other pot he is in. This knowledge has directed my play with both. In every group you will find players with similar idiosyncrasies. Study your opponents' play. It will pay off. Whenever you get an opportunity to watch the mannerisms of players in a game before you sit down, do so. You can learn much more about technique by watching than by playing. Study particularly the playing mannerisms and techniques of winning players. They must have something on the ball (if they aren't cheaters) to win most of the time.
When you hold a good hand,
When you hold a good hand, don't be too anxious to put your money into the pot until it is your proper turn; don't even have your bet ready. Untoward eagerness will inform an opponent, before he need know, that you intend to play. Most beginners or poor Online Hold'em Poker players are very anxious to bet on a good hand and conversely, when holding a weak hand, they turn down their cards before their turn of play.