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
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Texas Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons they must learn to switch gears. Experts switch their texas hold'em poker play, changing their game to be “looser” or “tighter” to best fit the style of the individual players they are up against. It’s best to play “loose” against tight players and to play tight against “loose” players. Experts are not predicable in their play. They are there to fool opponents—and they do. Most novice and recreational players play too tight or too aggressively. Novice and recreational players ability to switch their style of play is limited. That’s what separates the professionals from the recreational players, the ability to change one’s style of play, adapting to individual game conditions. In addition to patience and the ability to switch one’s style of play, experts have an instant grasped of the mathematical probability behind drawing, and winning with various poker hands. They know the mathematical expectations and the odds offered by the money in the pot and the money that will soon be in the pot. They are so familiar with the odds of various plays, they act on instinct, a finely tuned, practiced and calculated instinct. Finally, expert texas hold'em poker players are experienced in assessing opposing individuals and how they play texas hold'em poker. They can “read” non-expert players for the strength of their
Poker Stories with Winning Lessons
Online Hold'em Poker Stories with Winning Lessons hands. They can play the opposing player often better than they can play their own cards. The ability to “read” opponents comes with long years of experience and by rare native-talent. So, the difference in play between a novice and an expert may look minimal to a beginner, but the gap is truly a “Grand Canyon.” The only factor that saves the novice from complete and constant annihilation at the online hold'em poker table is luck. No matter how skilled a player is at poker, one always needs luck, good luck, to win. When novices have good luck they will win at the online hold'em poker table, but not as much as the expert. When experts have bad luck they will lose at the online hold'em poker table, but not as much as the novice. In the long run, the luck factor evens out and the expert comes out far ahead. The following five stories are first steps in acquiring online hold'em poker knowledge enabling a novice to play poker against an “expert.”