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Texas Holdem Poker Pre-Flop Strategy

 

Texas Holdem Poker Pre-Flop Strategy

Pre-Flop Play: Why You Want To Be the Raiser
In No Limit Hold Em, a lot of emphasis is placed on post flop play, however some of the most important decisions you can make in a cash game come before the board is ever dealt. How you act before the flop will determine how you can play afterwards.

To Limp, Or To Raise?Your decision of how you are going to play your hand before the flop should rely on a couple different pieces of information, mainly your hand, your table position, and the action that has taken place in front of you. Your decision is also going to… Click Here to Read the Entire Strategy Article

Texas Holdem Poker Betting Guidelines

Bet Sizing Guidelines
One of the best things about no limit hold em is the freedom the players have in their betting. One of the toughest things is figuring out the perfect amount to bet in the proper situations. Betting too much will chase opponent’s out of the pot that you want in it, and not betting enough is going to give your opponents the odds to draw on you.

When you hit the flop, you usually want to bet around half the size of the pot, as only betting a third will encourage too many callers.

Poker is completely situational and the perfect amount to bet is going to be different in every hand. There are times when your opponents are… Click here to Read the Entire Article

Picking Up Poker Tells

Picking Up More Information Leads To Picking Up More Chips

Being able to put a read on your opponents is one of the most important, if not the most important skills in poker. When you are playing at a casino or a card club, you have your opponent’s right in front of you, and will be able to pick up on certain gestures, postures, etc in order to get some “tells” from them and be able to get a read on their holding. A tell is something a player does whether it is verbal or non verbal that clues you in to the type of hand they possess. When you are playing poker online, you simply do not have that luxury, and need to pay attention to a few different types of factors in order to get a good read.

Live players often pick up tells from their opponents eye movements, and because of this, you will often see players wearing sunglasses, or a hat so as to not give off any eye-tells. Some of the other things that experienced players use to pick up reads on there opponents is the way they are postured (if it changes with a big hand vs. a draw etc), holding or fumbling with chips, or certain muscle movements and twitches. Conversation is another thing a lot of players will use to gain information. A high level player will often try and coerce a novice into talking with them and giving their hand away without ever knowing it. The top pro’s sometimes seem to have super-human abilities when it comes to reading an opponents hand, they collect all of this information and put it to perfect use.

Tells In Online Poker

The information you get from your opponents when playing online is far different from all of the information you get at a live table. While it is different in that you have no visual recognition abilities, you do get a lot of other valuable information that you may focus on. There are certain things you will see most of your opponents doing in certain situations, and it is important to recognize when this is happening. You also need to make sure that you as a player are not giving off to much information because you are so wrapped up in focusing on your opponents.

1. The Amount of Time a Player Is Taking To Act

Understanding this will go a long way in picking up reads on your opponents. This shows the amount of thought your opponent has to put into his or her decision, and unless it’s a particularly awkward spot, you should be able to pick up some good clues. If you see a delayed check from an opponent, it generally means they were thinking about bumping the pot, but decided not to risk it with their mediocre holding. If you see a player making an immediate call or raise, this is a definite sign of strength, or perceived strength. One thing to always keep in mind is that a players perception of a strong hand and an actual strong hand are two different things.

2. Chat Box Happenings

I know many of you are saying I sit at a table online for 2 hours, and nobody says anything except “nice call donkey” and “I can’t win a race to save my life”! While these are not direct tells for a given hand, they are tells regarding the players state of mind. Look for the players who are obviously on tilt and saying things in the chat box, those are the players you want to attack.

3. Tells From a Style Of Play

Again, not a direct tell in a given hand, however, picking up on the way someone plays and being able to exploit it are very important when it comes to poker. There are two specific types of play styles that you want to be on the lookout for, both of which you can exploit.

The Maniacs

It seems that there are more and more hyper-aggressive players coming into the poker world every day, lucky for us players, most of them have no idea what they are doing. These are the players who feel the need to raise every pot that gets limped to them. These players often have success with this early; however they get stuck in this hyper-aggressive mode never being able to shift gears. Recognize this, be patient, and put a hurting on the maniacs.

The Consistent Limper

Like the maniacs, these players also want to be in every hand, the difference is that they are quite passive, and time after time will fold to a raise. You can punish this style by raising when they limp, even with more marginal hands. You want to face these players heads up to take full advantage. Be wary when these players bet or raise into you, as they probably have a premium holding.

Poker is a game of information, and this is certainly not a comprehensive list of everything you want to look for, but it’s a great start. Elite poker players have a very high level of focus and concentration on their opponents and are constantly looking to pick up more information. Work on making better reads and picking up tells next time your online.

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Lot’s of Changes Going on at Party Poker

Party Poker, one of the largest online poker rooms, recently made some pretty big changes to their poker room. Here is a rundown of the latest changes:

The Lobby
Party Poker has helped make it easier to find a table with their new-look Lobby views, Quick Search feature, and favorites area. Party Poker claims that it takes just three seconds for players to sit down and start playing at a table and start playing with their all-new Quick Seat feature. Party Poker even lets you preview the live action at a table before taking a seat.

The Table
The graphics have been improved as well as the game controls. You can now personalize your player image by uploading your own picture or choosing one from their library. Multi-tabling is now easier to manage: Players can open new tables directly from the one they are at, arrange them to suit their screen, and catch all the action with customizable alerts. The action area has been made more user-friendly, making placing bets easy.

To make placing your bet simple, all the action buttons have been consolidated into one area, and you can even choose to color code your bet buttons. They have also reworked the bet slider and introduced bet tabs to make pushing your chips in as easy as possible. Party Poker is also promising even more improvements to this area.

They have improved several other features and consolidated them into one area of the table. You can now rebuy to the table and deposit to your account as you play, and both the notes and chat features are now even easier to use. The simple tabbed navigation helps you to keep track of the action when you are playing at multiple tables.

Speaking of Multi-tabling they have made that easier as well

You can now open new tables directly from the one you’re playing at: Just hit the ‘Open Table’ button.
Once you’ve got the tables you want open, the improved tiling and cascading features allow you to sort them quickly and easily into a view that works for you. Just use the icons in the table title bar to arrange your windows. You can also reset tables to their default size and set your own sorting criteria.

To make sure you don’t miss out on a winning hand as you play on multiple tables, They have added a real nice alert system. The tables will let you know when you’re holding a big hand or a big pot is up for grabs so you can be in the hands you want. You will even be alerted to your opponent’s betting patterns and to any tables you’re timing out on.

Last but not least, Party Poker has increased their bonus as well. They are now offering a 100% sign up bonus up to $500. If you are interested in checking out Party Poker click here.

PokerStars Announces Million Dollar Men FreeRolls and Win a Share of the Million Dollar Men

PokerStars recently announced two new promotions to celebrate the fact that 6 of the 9 remaining players at this years WSOP Main Event represent PokerStars

With these two promotions you can Play for your share of over $360,000 in cash prizes for FREE!, win a share of the Million Dollar Men’s actual WSOP* Final Table winnings and take on the Million Dollar Men in special tournaments with thousands of dollars in cash up for grabs.

MILLION DOLLAR MEN FREEROLLS
There is over $360,000 worth of cash prizes up for grabs through PokerStars Million Dollar Men Freerolls! And it’s free to enter. Play in the daily Round 1 freerolls from February 28 to February 17, for a chance to play in the final against the Million Dollar Men for the $100,000 first prize!

WIN A SHARE OF THE MILLION DOLLAR MEN
This tournament gives you the chance to win a piece of the winnings that the Million Dollar Men will take home from the World Series in November, PLUS a shot at $600,000 worth of prize pools?

PokerStars will be running a tournament each Sunday at 16:00 ET beginning February 5 for six weeks which has a $100,000 prize pool, and awards the top 100 finishers a 0.01% share in the winnings of one of the Million Dollar Men. Each tournament corresponds to one of the Million Dollar Men and placing in the top 100 gets you a share in that particular player. You can play in one, a few, or all of the tournaments. In fact you can try to get a piece of all 6 Million Dollar Men.

There are great ways to enter and qualify to play in the Million Dollar Men Tournament.

• 500 Frequent Player Points (FPP) buy-in gets you a seat in a tourney
• First Time Deposit – players making their first deposit using the code MDM will receive a free ticket to a Win a Share tourney of their choice
• 10 FPP and 50 FPP satellites

If you’ve never played at PokerStars then you are missing out on some of the absolute best tournaments and promotions around. In my opinion they are one of the best online poker rooms around and the best when it comes to these types of exciting promotions for their players.

Welcome to my Texas Holdem Blog

Welcome to my texas holdem poker blog. Sometimes the updates for a poker rooms bonuses, promotions and special tournaments that they are holding come fast and furious. My goal with this blog is to more quickly get the newest promotions and news out to you quickly. Unfortunately, it takes a bit of time to create, post and publish a web page especially when you are making sure that all your links work etc…

I’ll still be adding lots of great content and strategy to the Texas Holdem Poker Page. I’ve been writing so many strategy articles in between playing online that I have many more strategy articles to add. So definitely be on the lookout for more strategy. I’ll be able to use this blog to keep you up to date on my strategy page updates as well.

So be sure to be on the lookout for more great content coming to you fast and furious as well.

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