Texas Holdem Strategy vs. Omaha Hi Strategy

Many players who are coming to Texas Hold’em from Omaha hi wonder if they can bring their Omaha hi strategy over, make a few small changes, and still be profitable. While there are a lot of variables in the equation, the answer is generally yes. If you look at the two games objectively, they share [...]

Top Tips for Live Poker Tournaments

You’ve been playing online poker for a while, and now you’ve decided to try your hand at live poker tournaments.  Do you have a chance at success?  Well, the good news is that you do.  The basic skills that you have acquired from online poker games will benefit you in the live poker tournament scene.  [...]

Tips for Online Poker Tournaments

Online poker tournaments are accessible to all levels of players, and are a great way to start your poker career.  The move from online poker tournaments to live poker tournaments can be a tough one if you’re not used to playing poker face to face with your opponents, but most of the other poker skills [...]

Playing Cash Poker Online – Bankroll Management

When you first start playing cash poker online, the most important skill to master is managing your bankroll.  Bankroll management is an important part of playing cash games – even if you are good at judging hand values, counting outs, and calculating pot odds, you will still lose a lot if you make poor bankroll [...]

Live Poker Tournament Tips

Playing in live poker tournaments is very different to playing online. Not only can you see your opponents (and your opponents can see you), but the pace of play is different, and the competition are guaranteed to be focusing on just one game at a time. Many people, when playing online poker, choose to play [...]

Online Poker – Focus on the Odds

If you had started to play poker fifteen or twenty years ago, it’s likley you would have been encouraged to read lots of books about poker tells and poker psychology.  Back then, live poker tournaments were common, and poker rooms were full of people who were incredibly good at the psychological aspects of the game. [...]

Freeroll Poker Tournament Tips

Playing in freeroll poker tournaments requires a slightly different mindset to playing in tournaments with a cash buy-in.  Freeroll poker tournaments are open to everyone.  That means that the range of players you encounter includes everything from complete novices and people who are playing just-for fun and don’t care whether they win, all the way [...]

Kyle Siler’s Poker Study

Kyle Siler, a social scientist from Cornell University, shocked the world with his recent poker study, which, he claims, shows that the more hands novice poker players win, the less money they win overall. The study, which was published late in 2009, looked at the “Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker” and was published in [...]

Top Online Poker Tips

These online poker tips will help you to improve your poker performance – whether your goal is to dominate the tournament scene, profit in cash games, or just improve your statistics in general. Most online poker players, when they’re just getting started, make the same mistakes – things that are easy to fix, and that [...]

Tips for playing poker online

Many people will have heard the poker tale of how Annette Obrestad won an event at an online tournament by playing in position, but only looked at her hole cards once during the entire event.  What does that teach us about online poker? Poker is not just about cards.  In fact, you can win a [...]

How to win – play fewer poker hands

Did you know that the fewer poker hands you play, the more poker hands you win?  This is one of the most important parts of poker strategy, and something that bears repeating. Players who play fewer hands tend to, over a long period of time, end up winning a higher percentage of their hands.  And, [...]

Online Poker Tournament Tips

Online poker tournaments are a great way to challenge yourself and to test your poker skills.  Whether you’re a high roller, or on a tight budget, there are poker tournaments that have buy-ins that suit you. The best online poker tournament strategy for beginners is to play tight-passive in the early stages, but to become [...]

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