POKER FOR BEGINNERS

November 3, 2009 by m4mame

Winning strategy of poker for beginners

Online poker offers plenty of opportunities for beginners and professionals alike. However to play online you should be well prepared and know your game very well. You should be familiar with the kind of poker bonus available on the website you are playing poker on. There is also a kind of sticky poker bonus, which can be used to increase your profit. Poker is a simple game with a few rules but mastering it is a different ball game altogether and you need patience, planning and strategy to win some cash. The more you play the better you get at the game. Hence gaining some experience is vital.

To begin with poker for beginners, there is a something called ‘board cards’. These are the cards, which are on the table, and all players share these. I will not be explaining all the basics of poker and just brief you with oft repeated terms. A ‘flop’ constitutes the first 3 cards to appear on the board. A ‘preflop’ is the round after you are done dealing the 2 hole cards you had and no cards have been put on the board. Before I go any further with this poker vocabulary, let me bring to your attention that the card value increases from 2 to ace in poker and not ace to king as may be the case with some card games.

The dealer has the best position because he is the one that bets last and has a better inkling of what he is up against as opposed to the small blind. The small blind is the positions right adjacent to the dealer, which goes first. Limit poker is the one with betting amount fixed for the 1st two and second two rounds. A longhand is poker with seven or more players whereas a shorthand is with six or less than six players. If you have played poker before, online poker is pretty much the same but only tells are not as obvious as casino poker but you can develop your own pattern of tells by observing and noting repetitive betting patterns. You may read up strategy articles giving you great tips for winning online poker but remember to apply your own judgment while playing, as the two scenarios are never identical.

ok..so let’s enter The Traits strategy of poker for beginners You Need To Win Huge Pots..

Many people want to make huge money at online poker but they don’t go about it the right way.

Why are potential poker winnings so big?

The answer lies in it’s a game where you compete with other players NOT the casino and it is up to you to play in a way that maximizes your potential winnings.

Poker is therefore a game of psychology and as we all know the best hand does Not always win. To win big you need to play your opponent as much as your own cards.

It is the above that makes poker unpredictable and the ultimate test of skill.

The personality traits needed are:

1. Discipline.

All successful online poker players have this and it’s a way of playing that means you stick with your game plan to the letter.

You only play the hands you have a good chance of winning and you know the concept of pot odds backwards.

If you don’t get the hands you think can win, you keep folding until you do.

Never be tempted to play and feel you will get lucky.

You play on the facts before, not with your emotions and only play when the facts presented to you give you good odds of winning.

2. Cunning

All great players are cunning. This means they play in a style that is difficult to be read by other players. They use slow playing and bluffing sparingly and effectively to deceive other players and win big.

3. Pay Attention to other players

Other players are watching you but you need to be watching them looking for clues to their playing style and ways to beat them.

You will only get the above skills If

You have lots and lots of practice!

You can only learn the basics from books and articles.

You learn the winning psychology from the brutal world of playing.

All poker scenarios are different as are all players so to become a successful poker player you need experience.

There is simply no substitute for experience.

Most of the top pros have spent years getting to the top and you won’t do it overnight but practice and learn from your experiences and you will.

Poker is not as easy as it looks!

Poker is an easy game to play and a difficult one to win. You are in a brutal world where you must keep your emotions in check (which is hard when money is on the line!) and find ways to beat several other players and take their money.

You can do it

The stakes are high so competition is fierce but learn all the skills get lots of practice and understand that you must play with no emotion and discipline and you could soon be winning big pots.