Poker Strategy
Welcome to the Poker Strategy page! On this page, you will find out how to play no limit Texas Holdem poker. This page will continuously be developed by me and is intended to be a central location for all of my poker strategy posts. In the end, it will be a complete list of everything you need to know to crush almost any small stakes poker game you can find!
Poker Strategy
- 4 Guaranteed ways to get good at poker fast
- How to table select
- What poker tools do I need before playing a session?
- Which type of poker games should I play? Full Ring, 6-max, or HU?
- How can I stay ahead of the curve?
- Which site should I play at?
- Which sites can Americans play on?
- Is online poker legal?
- Which poker site has the best deposit bonus?
- Which poker site has the best rakeback and rewards?
- Learning poker lingo and terminology
- How does the poker site make money?
- How do people make money with poker?
- Typical online opponent types
- Typical live opponent types
- Is it possible to read opponents?
- Calculating odds.
- Card counting
- Why am I betting?
- The 3 Levels of Thinking
Cash Game Strategy
- Why should I play cash games?
- Which limit should I play?
- What is bankroll management?
- How much money can I make playing poker cash games?
- Adjustments between live and online poker
- Adjustments between full ring and 6-max cash games
Pre-Flop Strategy
- Why do we raise preflop?
- Pre-flop raising hand chart
- Pre-flop calling hand chart
- Why hand charts can be bad
- The 4 Biggest Pre-Flop Raising Pitfalls in Online Poker
- When to 3-bet?
- When to 4-bet?
- Playing out of the blinds
- How to steal the blinds properly
- What should my opening raise size be?
- Why limping is bad
- Spots we should limp
- When to isolate preflop
- How to play pairs.
- How to play suited connectors
- How to play big cards
Post-Flop Strategy
- How your pre-flop range should determine your post-flop play
- How to read poker hands
- When should I check/raise?
- When should I bluff raise?
- What is floating and when should I do it?
- The theory of continuation betting
- What boards should I continuation bet on?
- What size should I make my bet?
- How to exploit villain types
Other Poker Tips
- Always putting yourself in the most +EV situation
- The advantages of working out for poker players
- Should I play poker professionally?
- Living the poker lifestyle
- Creating a poker schedule
- Live poker etiquette
- Eliminating distractions
- How to become the best player possible
Did I Miss Anything?
This is by no means a complete list, but a work in progress (possibly forever?) so expect it to be continuously added on to. If you feel I have forgotten anything or left anything out, please let me know!
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Hi Patrick:
Downloaded course a few days ago, and have been jotting down charts on paper to have in front of me. I was wondering why some of the hands in the raising v limpers charts are weaker that the hands to open ?
For example :
E/P: AQs iso v AKs open
AQ iso v AQ open
KQs iso v nil open
M/P: AT iso v AJ open
KJ iso v KQ open
QJ iso v nil open
C/O A9 iso v AT open
K9s iso v KTs open
K9 iso v KT open
Q9s iso v QTs open
Q9 iso v QT open
Is there a reason for this ?
Thanks,
Bruce Walker
Kashclicks
Hey Bruce!
Good question! The reason is because when there is a limper, chances are we going to be in position the entire hand and we win a lot of money when the player limp/folds or limp/calls then check/folds the flop. We can’t be too loose though and we still need to focus heavily on position because the worst thing in the world is having weak hands out of position!
Hi Patrick,
I stopped playing poker when I lost my 700$ bankroll on UB.net on Black Friday.
A few weeks ago, I decided to start from scratch with a 50$ bankroll at micro-stakes.
In your opinion, which is the best site to play micro-stakes on (I’m from Canada so it doesn’t have to be a US friendly site)?
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Here are my findings:
- Any micro-stakes players need rakeback as bonuses and promotions are impossible to achieve.
- It’s hard to multitable on small sites like Lock Poker and the software sucks IMO (love the rakeback tho)
- The Revolution network (Carbon Poker, etc.) stopped paying rakeback on February 1st, 2013
- Fulltilt stopped paying rakeback since it was purchased by PokerStars
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Obviously, I would like to play on Tilt/Stars as the traffic & software are excellent but it looks like the rake is going hurt me pretty badly.
Did I overlooked a good site or network that I should play on?
Thanks,
Alex
Definitely PokerStars and it isn’t close! A little piece of me dies when online players can play on PokerStars but consider not playing on Stars