Two Top Tips for Beginners
Yep, just two. If you’re a beginner at this wonderful game, then I have just two top tips for you to focus on and I …
Poker Tips
What Makes Texas-Hold-Em Poker So Exciting?
Ever wondered what your friends are really thinking? Forget awkward icebreakers; just deal a hand of Texas Hold’em. It’s like a social experiment wrapped in …
Beginner Tip: Avoid playing 7 or below
I can’t remember where I got this one but it’s stuck with me. Don’t play anything 7 or lower. That means if you have a …
How to Play The Crazies
Do you struggle versus crazy players? It can be really infuriating playing against those nutters. Their incessant aggression, when you do enter a pot with …
How to be Tight
Tight means playing only the best starting hands… At a full ring poker table (9 players) a good strategy is playing the only the top …
7-2 off
The worst hand in poker. 7-2 off suit (e.g. a 7 of clubs and a 2 of hearts) as your pocket cards (i.e. pre-flop – …
The Basics of Playing Styles
4 Basic Styles of Play Broadly speaking there are 2 ‘scales’ to consider when analysing a player in poker. 1 – How ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’ …
Bullets
A pair of Aces. The best starting hand in a game of Texas Hold-em poker. Or is it? The beauty of this game is that …