No Limit Holdem is a very easy game to learn, but difficult to master. Here is the actual quote, made famous and credited to Mike Sexton.
“No Limit Texas Holdem takes a minute to learn, and a lifetime to master.”
This quote is true, but with a few no limit holdem tips to use on your game, you can improve your chances of winning significantly.
This article takes a look at a handful of poker tips you can apply to your No Limit Holdem poker game. These tips are designed to be used by new and entry level poker players looking to make quick improvements in their game, and to get a basic understanding of some of the principles and strategies you should be thinking about at the poker table.
Tips for Playing Your Starting Poker Hands:
There are a lot of starting hand guides available, this isn’t one of them. These tips are quick helpers to get the foundation of a solid poker game underneath you. These are the concepts behind starting hands and ideas you should be thinking about while playing no limit holdem.
1. Small Pocket Pairs.
Play small pocket pairs against many opponents and try and see the flop as cheaply as possible. You typically want to play small pocket pairs against many other opponents. Especially in a cash game or in the early stages of a tournament. Criteria for playing small pocket pairs is that you…. read rest of article at Kick Ass Poker
This texas holdem poker beginners guide was created to teach the basics of texas hold’em, and will be concentrated more on no-limit hold’em. The main goal is to introduce this very popular game to new players in order to get them comfortable playing texas hold’em.
Learning holdem is quite easy and conceptually simple although the overall game is complex. Playing texas hold’em requires a great deal of skill and knowledge, and is not based on the cards alone.
After finishing this poker course you will not be an expert, but will posses enough information to hold your own ground in low-limit games , and begin…. read rest of article at PokerWants.com
By Mike Caro
People read books. People read books on poker. People read books on poker and they study and study. People read books on poker and they study and study and then they sit down for their first cardroom experience. Then what?I’ll tell you then what. Then they most likely have chosen to seat themselves in a $1-$2, $2-$4, or $3-$6 limit seven-card stud or hold’em game and nothing seems the way it was promised. What good does it do to know about check-raising, about reraising aggressively to get extra value, or about tricking your foes?
What they don’t know might hurt them. Those foes don’t even know that they’re in danger of being check-raised or what it means when that happens. They don’t understand why a medium-strong hand is OK to play against a single raise, but often not OK to play against a reraise. And they aren’t likely to be tricked, because they don’t have a firm understanding about what a nontrick play should look like.
Instead of going into casino poker games unarmed, as was necessary years ago when no credible books laid out winning strategies for cardroom poker, lots of new players today do something very smart. They decide…. read rest of article at Poker Pages
by Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
I’m nine months into an experiment on Full Tilt Poker. I’m attempting to turn $0 into a $10,000 bankroll.
With no money to start, I had no choice but to begin playing freerolls. Starting out, I’d often manage to win a dollar or two, but I’d quickly get busted and have to start over again. It took some time but, after a while, I was eventually able to graduate to games that required an actual buy-in. As of this writing, my bankroll stands at $225.96, so I’m well on my way.
Even today, people don’t believe it’s really me when I sit down at Full Tilt’s small stakes games. They ask what I’m doing down here, and often tell me stories about how they turned $5 into $500 or $100 into $1,000. Usually, these stories end with them telling me that they…. read rest of article at Bluff Magazine
