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
The flop came: 10. 7. 3..
The flop came: 10. 7. 3.. The two other players checked. I bet $50 again trying to buy the pot. Everyone folded. I won a pot of $175 plus my final bet of $50. I was now doing well in the tournament and feeling confident. I then waited through about a dozen hands without playing: A. 2. K. 6. 3. 2. 7. 2. 4. 2. K. J. (With this hand, an early bet immediately followed by an early raise by very tight players led me to fold K. J.. Five rags hit the board. Each player bet once at different times. The players tied in the final show down both having started with Ace-King suited.) Similarly, I didn’t play the remaining hands: A. 8. J. 9. 8. 7. 6. 3. Q. 10. Q. 10.
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons Suddenly, a loud announcement was heard over the public address system. The online hold'em poker room manager announced the stakes were being raised. The blinds are now $100 and $200 with bets of $200 and $400. Suddenly all of the tournament players became very serious. At these stakes, a player could lose all of their chips in a single hand and be eliminated from the tournament. The dealer switched from the green deck of cards that we’d been playing with to a blue deck. He mixed the cards, shuffled, and dealt. Two players ahead of me called, I was on the button with 9. 9.. I called. Both Blinds called. There were 5 players in the hand. The flop came: 10. 9. 2.. The two players ahead of me checked. I was very excited, playing my first Pair. I had made a set (Three of a Kind) on the flop. Wow!