Best Poker Tips

If you’re starting to get up there with your poker skills, you might have noticed that different players have different styles.
The easiest player to beat is the ‘calling station’. He never makes a raise, always just calls. Even with aces.
He is the fish. You should be after him.
Then there’s the ‘tight playing, premium hands only’ kind […]

I know; sometimes it can be scary getting a pocket pair of tens. You know it’s a quite good hand pre flop, but it can also be run down easily. A very common made mistake is trying to protect your marginal pair by going all-in pre flop.
A logical reasoning for this is thinking that your hand […]

Another important principle some people don’t stop and think about is this:
In general, it requires a better hand to make a call than a raise. And it requires a bigger raise to protect you marginal hand, than your monster hand.
Let me elaborate.
If you hold a monster like Aces or Kings, you don’t want everybody folding.
If […]

 
Playing a marginal hand is always tough.
That’s because you can’t be sure if you’re ahead, and you might need to depend on your reading skills in order to take down the pot, or make a good fold.
When you get to the river, any hand has become psychological warfare. After the betting rounds that happened before […]