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What is the way to win at the Online Poker Games?
Written by Kjell E. Svendsen, Norway

Well, here are the true and real facts to this question:

1. CONCENTRATION, CONCENTRATION, CONCENTRATION
2. PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE
3. POSITION, POSITION, POSITION
4. YOUR OWN STARTING HAND
5. YOUR PRE-FLOP WAY OF PLAYING
6. THE BETTING STYLE OF THE OTHER PLAYERS
7. THE PLAYING STYLE OF THE OTHER PLAYERS
8. AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE POT
9. YOUR OWN DECISIONS DURING THE BETTING ROUNDS

To achieve a great excitement and fun of the game in the poker rooms, or to actually manage to win more money than you bring into these rooms are two very different issues.
: The fun and excitement no doubt will cost you all your money in the longer (or rather the short) run, while playing to make a profit is all about hard work, full concentration and lots of correct decisions.

This information will be a straight to the point method of helping you to manage this. Poker is full of unlimited situations and odds calculations, but to make you start the very best way, this information will be all you need to know so that all your money is not wasted in just a few hours.

COMBINATION OF HANDS FROM THE BEST POSSIBLE HAND TO THE WORSE POSSIBLE HAND IN HOLDEM POKER:

	ROYAL FLUSH:	An Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten in the same suit
	STRAIGHT FLUSH:	5 same suited cards in a sequence (number row)
	FOUR OF A KIND:	4 cards of same numbers, plus irrelevant side card
	FULL HOUSE:	3 cards of same numbers plus 2 cards of same numbers
	FLUSH:	5 same suited cards
	STRAIGHT:	Any 5 cards in sequence (number row)
	THREE OF A KIND:	3 cards of same numbers (plus two side cards)
	TWO PAIRS:	2 cards of same number plus 2 cards of another number (plus a side card)
	ONE PAIR:	2 cards of same number (plus 3 side cards)
	HIGH CARD:	The highest card of the 5 cards combination you have got.
	A hand is always made up by a combination of the 5 best possible cards. If two or more players have a hand of the same value, then the pot will be shared.

COMMONLY USED WORDS IN POKER:

AGGRESSIVE: To repeatedly place bets and/or raise.

BET: To put money into the pot (on the table) according to the value of the cards you have got.

BLINDS: The amount of money every player will have to put in the pot to join in on the game. Normal is one half and one full blind at each round (e.g. $0,25 and $0,50) plus a full blind when you join the table.

CALL: To match a previous bet from a player in an earlier position to stay in the game.

CHECK: To see the next card or at the end your opponents' cards without placing a further bet in the round. Do NEVER FOLD IF YOU CAN CHECK unless you have been raising bets on cards of no value and don't want the other players to see this.

DEALER: The one sharing out all cards to the individual players.

DEALER BUTTON: A button or mark (in online poker often marked with the letter D) to show who is dealer during the current game. The player to the dealers left gets the first card. The dealer will also be the last one to give bets during the round.

DEUCES: Cards with the value 2

FOLD: To stop playing your hand and not to be a part of the betting round any more.

FLOP: The first 3 cards shown on table (before the turn of 1 card next and river of 1 card last)

HAND: You are given two starting cards to play with. The table will show first 3 cards (the Flop), then 1 more (the Turn) and finally 1 more (the River). Any best combination of 5 cards (e.g. 7 7 7 2 2 will be a full house of sevens filled with deuces) will be looked at as your hand.

LIMP IN: Not to raise the blinds even though your hand is made out of two very good cards, like a top pair.

LOOSE: To play small card combinations and/or cards of a too low a value to see the flop too often.

MUCK: Not to allow other players to see your two cards on hand after you have lost a full betting round. Cards cannot be mucked if another player has paid to see your cards (called) or if everybody has checked.

POSITION: Where you are sitting compared to the dealers button at each and every individual round.

POT: The combined amount of money being bet by all players.

RAISE: To bet more than the player before you has already bet during the current betting round.

RIVER: The last card shown on table (after the flop of 3 cards first and turn of 1 card)

STARTING HAND: The value of the two cards you have got which will determine whether it's worth a bet or not.

STACK: The amount of chips somebody has got.

SUIT: The actual kind of card, Club, Diamond, Heart or Spade.

TIGHT: A player who is not taking part in the round unless he or she has an outstanding chances of winning.

TURN: The 4th card shown on table (after the flop of 3 cards and before the river of 1 card)

VALUE: The value of your cards compared to your statistical winning chance during the actual betting round, compared to the money already in the pot. This again can be compared to how many times you will win or lose spending the actual amount of money you will be betting compared to the actual amount of money you might win. The calculation of all this will state whether your hand is of a higher or lower value.

1. CONCENTRATION, CONCENTRATION, CONCENTRATION

Always make sure that you are feeling good and awake before sitting down to play poker.

Also make sure that you don't have too much disturbing noise surrounding you. You will be in the fire, and will have no time to deal with other things while playing this game.

Any loss of concentration without doubt will make you sometimes press the wrong button at the wrong time, and you will suddenly find yourself playing against people who bet hard making you aware that your own cards are far weaker. This will force you to fold and lose the money you have been putting in on this hand.

To be feeling the right way is simply a must for you to make the right decisions.

2. PATIENCE, PATIENCE, PATIENCE

To manage to make your money grow you will have to be extremely selective of what you play and when. You will have to play only the very right hand in the absolutely correct position.

On top of this, when you have got your hand and decide to play it, you are dependent on the flop to give you some good enough cards to give you a high chance of winning.

Never play cards if you may risk being forced into a betting round with not much to go with!

Either you've got'em or you fold'em!

The normal good and tight game would make you call during the blinds round to see the flop at a rate of 1 to 5 times an hour. There may be some very good periods at times, and there might be some very long bad periods at times, but on average I think that this will not be far from the truth.

If you are on the low blinds and do not have the cards which you would have paid a full blind to be playing along with then there's no doubt - FOLD! Do not think about the money already placed in a half blind!

My most important hold'em poker tip is that you always must make sure to fold your cards in time!

3. POSITION, POSITION, POSITION

The absolutely most important thing to look at before placing a bet on your cards is where you are sitting compared to the dealers button.

Simply, if you are one of the first people to place bets don't ever play any cards apart from the highest kind of pairs with which you would no doubt raise the bet on, no matter what.

If your position in the betting rounds is early or middle and if you are playing against people who are playing very tight you could also take the risk to call or play the blinds for cards like A Q or pairs of two nines or higher, but this is risky since these cards will not be worth paying any more than the big blind to play.

If you are in a late/end position, with at the most one person after you, you will first have to consider whether this person would normally raise the blinds or not, and next whether your own cards have a value high enough to take the risk to play them. I would suggest any combination of pairs of 9 or higher cards if this player is very tight and at least a pair of Jacks if this person is playing loose.

If you are on the dealer button you will be in a very good position since you will be placing your bets as the last one in a few rounds to come, but you are also at a risk since you've got the two persons to your left (small and big blinds) to place the blind bets after you. This situation makes it a great plus IF you have got cards which are good enough to play and the small and big blind players are playing their blinds tight enough to avoid the great risk of the blinds to be raised.

Poker is actually not at all about placing bets, but mostly about making sure you save your money. Playing and betting on cards which will not end up winning, or facing other players raising the amount of bets into a value far above the value of your hand, is the number one cause of all losses.

Make sure you have an awfully good starting hand to see the flop and only join in if you are very sure that the blinds will not be raised unless you hold a pair of Aces or Kings where you will raise the bet yourself from any position, or an Ace and a King where you will call any bets being raised.

No matter what position you are in, if you don't hold the pair of Kings or a higher combination of cards, if the blinds are raised by a player who normally would not raise the blinds, then fold and forget your cards.

There is no reason to pay to get into a game where you know there is already at least one strong hand, so better to wait for your next chance to make them bleed their money into your own pocket.

4. THE BETTING STYLE OF OTHER PLAYERS

The only time you can go along with a raise of blinds instead of folding is when your starting hand is at least a pair of 10's or any higher combination and the players who are betting higher blinds are playing very wild and loose with nothing at all on hand.

This is the kind of table at which your tight way of playing will pay off at its very best!

Make sure to always be paying close attention to who is betting, calling and raising and with what cards. If the betting goes wild and somebody wins with only a low pair then you will know that this is a table with lots of loose players. Your patience and correct decisions will make you a favourite to win the most money of anyone at this kind of a table.

If other payers are playing really tight, betting very little and only winning with good combinations, you could maybe take the risk of playing a little more cards from the blinds in the latest position, but it is very hard to make a good win at such a table. Playing poker takes hours of patience and more so, and if the cards just aren't going your way for a couple of hours then find yourself another table!

The biggest mistake you can make if you are in a betting round is to go along with another player, who is not a totally wild and crazy loose player, who is raising on you. Fold unless you are very very sure about having the very best hand.

If you feel that you are unsure, or even worse - if you are thinking that you want to see what his hand is - Then FOLD!!! This will make you avoid the biggest mistakes and the highest loss of money in this game. The last betting rounds cost a LOT more than the high blind to get to see the flop, and to pay that much money on a losing hand is the worse mistake you can do.

If you fold every time this situation comes up it will save you a lot more money in the long run than the money you can win.

If you are raised by a totally loose player, or the same player several times, and you feel that you now have a strong hand, then just check or call him out to the end. Never re-raise after being raised on unless you are 99% sure you have got the better hand.

5. THE PLAYING STYLE OF OTHER PLAYERS

To know what cards other players are paying to play, what starting hand they will raise with or not, what combination they will check or raise with and finally how often they will fold their hand in a battle or not, is information of a very high value.

Do remember though that a person who is starting to play in a poker room while having a drink today can be sober and a lot more experienced player a few weeks later, so don't take a pattern for granted in the longer run. Keep a very close eye on what is happening at the table at this moment.

If somebody is often joining in on the betting rounds and even raising with cards of a rather low value you should not be too scared about calling them out through the round if your own cards are very good, but if a tight player suddenly start raising a pot then be very careful about whether it will be smart to stay in or not.

6. THE AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THE POT

Your starting hand and how much you will have to pay to see the flop as well as your chances for hitting the correct kind of cards should all be compared to the expected amount of money in the pot.

Playing in a late position not only affects your ability to lower the risk of the blinds being raised, but it also will make you able to control how much money there will be in the pot. In the last position you can of course see how many players have already placed their bets before you decide whether to join in or not.

If you sit with a couple of cards which will need great support from several other cards from the flop to make a good combination its hardly smart to join in on a flop with only one more player in.

I suggest you only play in a full 9 or 10 player room. With 9 or 10 players around the table you will always know that there's a chance that somebody will have very good cards on hand, which reduces your chances of winning, but it will also make sure that the hands that you do decide to play will often start with a good amount of money in the pot due to the fact that all the bets of the players in earlier positions will already have been made. Therefore: Play awfully tight to make some really good wins and to reduce your losses!

7. YOUR OWN STARTING HAND

Your starting hand will determine a lot about how your money will last or not. You must fold almost everything unless you are in a very good position, the money in the pot is a good size and/or your own cards give you a very good chance of winning.

From any position you could raise the blinds with a pair of Aces or Kings, and call any raises of the blinds with an Ace and a King.

From a middle position you may play higher cards which are same suited and adjacent to each other.

Good starting hands in a normal game and from a late position would normally be a pair of nines (or above) or any combination of two cards of 10 and a higher card, e.g. 10 and King.

If you are at the very last position and there is enough money in the pot (at least 5 players already in) you should also go in with combinations like smaller pairs, (fold after the flop if you do not get the third one with smaller pairs) Ace and any same suited card and two same suited cards which are adjacent to each other (e.g. 4 of hearts and 5 of hearts).

These are cards which will seldom result in a win, and if they do not give you a great start after the flop then you should always fold unless you can check. The reason for this is that most times you will not hit a third card of the pairs or a full flush or straight option, and every time this happens you will have paid to see the flop.

When the pot has got a good amount of money in it, compared to the number of times you will have to fold with nothing at the flop, playing hands like this should give you just a slight profit in the long run.

As you probably will understand, the more you pay to see the Turn and the River cards after the flop the more money you will lose in the longer run, so remember: If the flop does not give you a set of winning cards and somebody has raised, fold and get out of this round!

8. THE FLOP

When the flop is on the table you will have made 71% of your hand. To see the next 29% will cost you a lot more than the price of just seeing the flop, and the chance of hitting your required cards will be many, many times lower, so save your money here and now - If you have not got them then fold them!

With the flop a lot of things may happen. The first and most important thing to figure out is what kind of cards the other players might be sitting with. The secret to see this is in the combination of their possible hands and their betting style.

If somebody hardly ever places a bet at all and suddenly starts raising like a mad man he must have got some very good combination already. The 3 cards on the table will no doubt tell a lot about what he might have.

The main warning signs are:

Two or three cards of same suit: Somebody will probably win with a flush. Their highest card will decide.

One pair: A dangerous flop which opens up the chances of somebody having two pairs, three of a kind, a full house and even 4 equal cards.

Three cards of 7 or higher: Now there is a great risk of a high straight being the winner hand.

Never ever overlook the importance of evaluating your opponents possible combination and pay full attention to their betting manner!

The one thing to remember is that the highest combination of hand will always be the winner. There might be a draw, but this is not a good solution to bet for since the amount in the pot is very low compared to what a full battle would be costing you.

If two hands are both made up of the same two pairs, then the last card will decide which one of the hands is going be the winner. If both last cards are of equal strength there will be a draw and a shared pot.

Even though your flop might look good, never forget the fact that another player could have a better combination than you, or that they may manage to get it later on in the betting rounds.

You really should think of not raising like mad on two pairs, even if one of them is made out of the highest card on the table. It may well happen that another player has already got, or will later get, his 3 of a kind or even a full house and you will be badly beaten at the end of the story.

If you have got a straight with one high card in, is it possible for another player to have gained an even higher straight with two high cards?

If you have got a flush is it possible that another player also has got the same flush with a higher card on top?

When you find yourself in a situation where somebody is raising like mad and some of these cards are in the flop then you should fold at once unless your combination has a great chance of being better.

Do not join in on a betting round after the flop without a completed good combination unless you have an Ace high and another same suited card on your hand and with only one card short of a full flush, but this option is only a good one as long as there is no pair on the table, which could mean that full house or 4 of a kind is out, which are better combinations than a flush, while a straight or 3 of a kind will lose to the flush if it is completed.

Be very careful about how much you will pay in this option though, and never raise unless you are the last one to act, that you have pretty good cards and that nobody else has raised before you.

If other players are raising and you do not have a good and/or high enough combination - FOLD!!!!

On the other hand in any situation, when you raise you will certainly tell the other players that you have got something good, and this should most probably make a few of them go fold.

This is the correct thing to do in almost all cases since the best chance you will have to win at the final showdown is by making sure that there are as few players as possible in the last part of this game.

But then again, if you are VERY, VERY SURE that your hand will be the winning hand in the end, and that it is not at all likely for anyone to beat you, THEN you maybe should think very differently.

Lets say that you have got a A 10 on hand and the flop is A 10 A

You are sitting on a full house of Aces filled with tens.

The only combinations that could beat you would be a totally unbelievable Straight Flush or a Royal Flush. No matter what, with such a hand you absolutely would want to make the other players pump the pot with as much money as possible.

You could do two things in this situation;

1. Wait for several seconds as though you are really very, very afraid of somebody having a better hand than yours before you place your bet. This will quite often make other players feel a lot more strong handed and they will call your bet.

2. Just check or call and play along nicely and let the other players gain some better combinations before you raise and collect your money at the very end of the round.

Some times a player will choose to check/raise the rest of the players. This move is not something you should do without a very certain opinion on why you are doing it. First of all, if you just check with cards great enough to win you risk loosing a full betting round. This could cost you!

To first check and then to raise a bet made against you will make the other players very aware that you have a solid combination on hand. If this is correct then you really would not like to scare them away too soon.

If your cards are not so good this could be a very scary move and may make people fold, but using a check/raise method too late in the game, or against opponents who also hold a good combination on hand, will do nothing but harm against your own amount of money.

The plain and easy ways are the very best ones - Bet if you have got cards good enough for a win, call if you believe that there is a good chance of winning this round and fold when you feel that you hold a hand that might not make it.

Basically though - What the other players may have got on their hand should be foremost in your mind, ahead of whatever combinations you might get yourself.

Either you feel strong or you feel weak compared to the cards on the table and the betting patterns around.

If you feel strong then play very carefully but if you are feeling just a bit weak then fold in good time before any more of your precious money is wasted into an opponents' pocket!

Throughout all this, the most successful way of playing is to make sure that you really have got the winning combination as you go on, and then you can play hard.

It is commonly known that the best way to win is by playing very tight in combination with a very aggressive way of betting. Being able to do just that you must make sure to fold everything you will not win with and to endlessly raise while holding a proper winning hand. This is the method of playing which will totally separate the winners from the losers.

9. THE TURN AND RIVER

The players who will want to pay to see the turn have either already got their combination or they are paying a lot to get to see just one more card which might complete a very good combination for them.

The players who also pay for the river will be even more willing to pay for their hand.

If an opponent starts betting and raising wildly after the turn then you will know he has got the card he wanted.

If he starts betting after the river then the cards on the table will have to tell you whether he is in a position to beat your combination or not.

If you are holding a good combination it can hurt a lot to fold when somebody else is starting to raise on you, but there is no doubt that to call the last raises now and lose will cost you a lot more money than you will be able to win back later. The reason for this is that the more somebody raises on you then the more likely it is that they do have the winning cards. All the losses you make by not folding at this point will, in the long run, be tremendous. Also remember, it is very nice to get to see the cards of your opponent and to stay in with the hope of winning this great pot of money, but you are taking a high risk. Not only will this way of playing become your worst enemy in the long term, but it may also be your opponents best friend by putting your money right into their pockets due to your lack of discipline.

There is also another calculation to keep in the very back of the mind though;

IF the pot is at a very, very high level and the final call to view your opponents cards is very small compared to the money already in the pot, then you should call rather than fold.

10. When to CHECK, CALL, BET, RAISE or FOLD

The most difficult thing to know as a beginner starting to play poker is when to check, raise or fold the cards. Placing the bets is a language on its own, a two-way communication;

To check is to say that you don't have anything and need more cards to fulfil your wanted combination.

To call is telling that you are really hoping for one more last card to fulfil your wanted combination.

This is a player who is very weak but may get a lot stronger next if the wanted combination comes true.

To be the first to bet means that you believe you stand a very good chance of winning this hand.

To raise means that you have got your wanted combination and that you believe that you will win this hand.

This is a player who sees him or herself in a very good position.

As in the real life it is fully possible to lie in Poker as by words;

If you have got 2 kings on your hand and you decide to limp in to see the flop, not to reveal the true strength of your hand, and the flop comes up with 2 kings too, you will know for sure that you will win no matter what. You will also know that if you raise you may make many of the other players go fold. So you decide just to check and call until the last card is on the table. At this moment someone else might have got a pair or so, and you may find that this player starts placing bets against you. The last bets are worth a lot more than during the first two rounds, so in this case you surely will gain more money than to raise from the beginning and see everyone else go fold.

On the other hand, if you have got nothing at all you may raise to pretend that you have the greatest kind of a hand. This will only work out when it is done at the very correct moment, and that there is no other players sitting with some quite good cards on hand. The very best effect of this kind of an action is when the pot is very small and when you have created a very obvious image of a very tight player.

The normal and correct way of playing is to be extremely tight and aggressive. What this means is that you will have to sit and wait and wait to get the right kind of cards while you are at the very right position.

At this moment you act like a sledgehammer and raise until it is very obvious, either from the flop itself or from being raised or called by another tight player, or a combination of the two, that your cards probably will not win. At this moment, depending on the situation, you either fold or only check or call.

If another player is re-raising upon you I'd suggest you fold unless you are absolutely sure that your own cards probably will be better than the opponents'.

When I see a flop I first of all look for a good straight option, mostly because that's the hardest one to see. If there's a pair on the table I do know that there might be two pairs, 3 of a kind or a full house coming up. The 4 of a kind option does happen at times, but this is so seldom that I don't see it as a reason to consider it. The times I'll lose to 4 of a kind after a betting round is very few compared to all the good pots won that same way.

If I'm not sitting with two pairs with a top pair on hand, or a full house with the three cards as the highest pair on the table, then I'll be extremely careful about the way I play my hand.

If there's 2 suited cards on the table I will always know that another suited card quite often will end up in a flush for another player. In this case I will never place an ordinary raise, and in this situation, if another player suddenly starts raising, I will no doubt fold at once unless I am very sure that this person is on a flush draw and I have already made a hand! After the flop there is about 1 third to fulfil a flush with two cards on hand and two on the table, and about 1 to 7 only after the turn! In this case, when I already have made a hand but suspect that my opponent might be on a flush draw, I very well might go all in to protect my hand and/or win at more than half the times this happens, including the risk of your opponent to have hit trips instead of a flush draw. If you have got the trips you should go all in, since even a flush would be beaten by a full house or by 4 of a kind

Playing very tight unless you really got a hand is the very safe thing to do, but at the same time, as soon as the other players figure this out they might start raising against you like mad no matter what just to make you fold, right?

Yes, and here is where the real difference in between the good and bad players comes in, because the good players know when people start thinking and acting against them, and then they start changing their playing style to adjust to this situation.

When sitting as the last one to place the blinds, start raising some bets with nothing on hand and make the rest believe that you now have picked up a good hand again. Before the others manage to discovered your new move, a few more betting rounds will have gone past.

At a later moment you might have got a winning hand again, and then such a few previous raises could pay you off even better than if not!

The time to adjust your way of playing is something you will have to think of continuously during a game of poker.

The first thing you will have to know is whom you are up against. If you have got players placed after you who have not yet placed their blinds, and often will raise, you are in a very bad situation. To be placed right after such kind of a player is 10 times better than to be sitting right before them! If you have such loose players after you, you will have to play as tight as possible to know that you can match both their raises and their cards at the moment you join in. When you go in though, you will know that your cards have an outstanding good chance of beating this player, and it may be a better payout than normal in this kind of a situation. This payout will help you paying a lot more blinds while patiently waiting for your next good chance. You will never know though, when you start joining in with your hand up against a lose player, whether your own hand is the better one or not. This is because these guys most often will raise like mad no matter what they've got themselves.

When you are on a table with very many tight players you will have to do just the opposite thing.

If you are on a table where players fold more often than they play, you should play just a little bit more loose (to play slightly more cards in an earlier position than you normally would do) and be very aggressive (to place your bets and to raise) when you first go in. But be very careful about what the cards on the table are like - If such a tight player doesn't fold, but maybe just call, it could be very, very risky to keep on betting. I would just check, or give up and fold if raised, or rarely with good cards call all the way out in such a situation.

When sitting down at a table, always start playing very carefully, save your money, and wait until you have got some very good cards on hand. After a while you will probably have seen who is betting what way compared to the kind of cards which are the winning hands, and you will have a fairly good idea about who is raising with a very good starting hand or not.

What you always have to be very careful about is to raise with a full straight. First of all; is there a flush option on the table? Is there a pair which could be the base of a full house? And finally, but not least - If you have not got the possible one or two top cards of the straight, how can you know there is not somebody else who has? Do remember this; In a straight option where three cards of the 9 to A are on the table, almost always someone will have one or two of the top cards on hand. Maybe the best you can hope for is a shared pot? This will not be a loss, but it is also not a very good pay-out compared to the bets you so far have been placing. Be very careful playing this hand if you do not have the only two possible top cards yourself!

The way I see it, the best chance to know that you have the winning cards is when you've got a combination of the highest possible cards. A flush with an Ace on top is a very good example of this, and be very careful raising with a flush without the highest possible card on top! Many players are playing any flush option, even though this way of doing it normally will not pay out in the long run due to the costs of the times you don't manage to win compared to the income in the times you will win with such a hand. Another example of different kinds of hands can be seen on the image below.

Let's say that you are holding 9 9 on your hand. This would have been a full house made out of the 3 highest possible cards. As long as other people are willing to place their bets you'll raise like a mad man!

Another player who has got a hand of 9 5 would also have a full house, but in this situation it surely would be the losers hand. He would probably bet like a mad man too though.

A third player could hold a K 7 on hand, there would be a full straight. He would bet like a mad man!

The next player hold a 10 7 on hand. He would also have a straight, a higher one than the player above.

But besides all this you have a full house at the top position, and are sure to win as long as nobody is sitting with a pair of 5's on hand! This option is too rare to even consider in such a situation.

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11. Where to play and why

The most important thing is to be very selective about what table to enter. The table you would want to be at is a table with a few quite loose players and a lot of quite tight players. It is here you will have the greatest chance of picking your correct target and avoid silly losses at a highest rate of your playing hands.

There are a lot of different places where it can be nice to play, so you sure have got a lot of options out there.

The different places have a lot of offers of statistics and there is also software out there with odds calculators to use directly on the table while you are playing.

An odds calculator is quite a nice tool if you are the only one who has it, but that's unlikely to be the case.

I suggest you go into a place where these kind of options are more limited.

One place I would like to suggest to you is Pokerchamps.com They have got a pretty good bonus system too.

Their quite new software is constantly being improved, the rooms are not so filled up which makes it very easy to find a free table to sit in on, and I have not seen any obvious sign of people cheating by chatting while playing and going for a collective raise of the pots. Not least, up to now I don't know about any odds calculators which will work with the Pokerchamps tables.

This place also has the unique option of being able to play at up to 6 tables simultaneously in a single window screen.

They have got rooms which you should start at where you don't need to pay money to join in and you don't even need to give any credit cards details away to enter their fun rooms where you can practise on your play by using fun money.

12. What rooms to start at

Be sure to join in on a limit game, and stay far away from the no limit games until you really have got the skill of reading the opponents hands and how to be betting at what time.

To start playing in such rooms will help you to gain a few new skills;

First of all how the software and betting rounds work.

Next to see what cards people might have gained from the flop, river and turn and how their betting pattern changes.

Last to get to know how your playing against other people will work out, and if you have the right skill, patience and discipline necessary to make a winning in a poker game.

Do not believe that this will tell you everything that you need to know though!

First of all; In the fun rooms and in the real money lower rooms there is a lot of betting and raising going on which will make it very hard to read the opponents cards.

This makes it on the one hand harder to see what cards the different players have got while on the other hand it should create a better balance money wise by winning larger pots by playing only some very selective hands.

As soon as you can handle the fun money places OK and see that your profit rises you should go to the real money lowest levels of a hold'em limit table, since this playing pattern will be very similar to the fun money tables you've just been at.

Another level though, which is a lot more accurate, is at a $0,25 and $0,50 Holdem limit table. Here you will find that it is by far more easy to read what cards the players are betting hard on or not and you will find a lot of very tight players sometimes mixed with a few loose players.

If you can manage to follow the above advice for the most part then you also should manage to make a profit at this level.

The least you should bring in at this level is $25 and if you lose all of it then there are several pieces of advice given on this page that you have not been following properly. You will do things differently than I have described here, we both know that, but the more of my advice you choose not to follow and the more often it happens the more money you will hand over to the other players at the table.

And in that case I hope that I will see you there! :-)

Stay away from any no-limit table and any stack higher than the $0,25 and $0,50 tables.

The reason for this is that the playing style is quite different in such places, and the skills of the players is by far better than yours. You are almost doomed to die in these rooms. Play where you can stand a chance!

Your best chance is at a full 10-man table with a few loose players and a lot of tight players already in. If you sit and watch the game for maybe 30 minutes or an hour before joining in you should have learned something of their playing pattern and be able to enter with a great chance of winning a few rounds.

When you have been practising for a while you could also try a few tournaments out there. This demands a totally different playing style and you will no doubt need to read some accurate information on this special issue.

After playing in limit tables and having gained about 250 hours experience and managed to make a growing profit in these kind of rooms, then it will be the right time to take your experience into the no limit tables.

It is here you will have to adjust your previous experiences into the new kind of playing style, but simultaneously to keep your very tight to tight-aggressive way of playing as a standard until you have learned the different playing style on such tables. After a few good winning rounds your blinds will become pretty small to pay compared to your income, and this will make you able to play a few more cards from the start as long as the blinds is not raised later on during the first betting round.

The no limit tables are also where you will make the most money, and your previous experience from the limit tables will be the major reason for being able to do so from the very beginning.

I can not tell you all the details of odds and rights or wrongs to this or that situation, that takes a lifetime of experience and reading to learn, but by following these guidelines your start at the real money poker table should be going far smoother than my own start did.

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Make sure to add all user data exactly the same way as you are registered at your bank. This will prevent you from running into problems when withdrawing the money you have won.

The Final Note

I don't know how much money I have spent to gain my level of playing skill, but I will give you the benefit of the knowledge gained from my mistakes here, all for free. The only thing I would ask as a favour back from you is that if you are happy about the advice I have been giving you and if you see that this information has been a help for you then please write a few lines about this website in a poker information board or send a link in a mail to a friend. Because when I see this website visitors' counter is going up then I will know that my advice is helping people out.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my Limit Holdem Poker advice.



AND FINALLY - GOOD LUCK OUT THERE!

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