hold em poker strategies

Texas Hold'em?

First off, I am an amateur player but I've been playing poker online and been watching poker on TV, primarily World Poker Tour. I've been playing NL Hold'em for about a year now and I know basic strategy, such as when to call, raise and using pot odds to know when to get your money into the best possible spot. But whenever I get together with my friends who don't have a clue how to play it's hard for me to win because they play every single hand even if I riase pre flop, and it seems like someone playing a garbage hand always catches something on the flop and I can't do anything to protect my own hand. I need some help to improve my game?

Thanks to Jaime Gold, not only the people that don't know what they are doing play those hands but some people who do know what they are doing play them too.

I have the same problem sometimes at my home game. I play with this unbeleivably lucky Croatian guy that calls almost anything. K 2 is his favorite hand. He wins all the time with squadoosh.

The most effective way that I have noticed is to limp alot. See more flops and try to know where you stand and outplay them from there. Dont be afraid to let better starting hands go if they don't hit.

And when I say limp alot, I mean basically everything thats not Aces. Yes limp with Kings too. They arent pros like you said and you cant push them off anyways. Try to catch something nice on them and you will blind side them and leave them crushed. If you limp with Kings or Quenns, and someone raises you (if your sure its not Aces) then reraise alot.

This will allow you to try and improve your reads on people. When they look at thier cards alot. Betting patterns. Etc. Knowing how to play a hand after the flop is every bit as important as before the flop.

If they are playing these loose hands alot, they will probably beat each other up and pass around chips. Just be patient and pick your spots. It will come around. Just like thier chips. LOL.

Now this is not by any means an overall great poker stategy, but for this style of game you mentioned try it. It should work better. Also, with limping with prime hands, you will lose less and win more with this style. It sounds like thats one of the problems.

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The more people that are in a hand, the more likely someone will hit something. So you have to outplay them after the flop.

Another good idea would be to buy them all a cheap poker strategy guide. LOL

Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy 101

Having some sort of a Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy is important because playing a Texas Hold Em Tournament is very different to playing a cash game. Although poker tournaments are also exciting, challenging and potentially rewarding, the sheer fact that everyone receives the same amount of starting chips at the beginning, and you cannot buy more chips or buy in after your out means that your tournament play must be a little different to how your normally play. General play is the same as any normal cash game except for one point, the amount of the blinds and antes will gradually increase at pre-determined time intervals. Because of this, only the players that are increasing their stack will survive. Standing still is indeed going backwards.

The basic Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy I will explain today is simply to learn how to survive. Survival is key in tournaments because if your out, your out. If you lose your stack you cannot simply add more money to your account and keep playing. You blew it. Its over. For this reason I believe that actually just surviving in a tournament is one of the most useful strategies to use. I don't care how well you think you play, how fancy you cards are or how well the odds depict you 'should' win, if you don't stay in, if you don't make it to the last table you will never win a tournament.

Knowing how long to wait before actually moving in all of your chips to take a pot is a vital part of the survival strategy. You want to do everything in your power to survive as long as possible, getting to the last table. Then you hope to catch a few cards and snatch a win. Towards the end of the tournament the blinds and antes get so high that you have to get lucky and rake in a few pots in order to win. Its not fair, but its life. The skill is getting to the final table, what happens there is left to the gods.

Another avenue to successful survival in tournaments is to become very powerful. By playing alot of pots and accumulating alot of chips to grow your stack you will have a better chance of surviving then if you don't play many pots and have your stack widdled away by the blinds. Its far easier to win at a tournament when your the chip leader.

My favourite Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy is that if everyone is playing tight at a table, you play loose to pick up the blinds and antes. Or, if there are several loose players at the table, you play tight, waiting for your chance to pick them off with a solid hand. Play the opposite of how your opponents are playing at that table for the tournament and you may find yourself at the final table or winning a poker tournament. Remember though, you can't win if your not in it, so you must survive at all costs.

About the Author

Alex is an avid Texas Hold Em Poker player and has dedicated his time, effort and money to learning the art and skill of successfully winning rounds of No Limit Hold Em. Shoot him an email at alex@mytexasholdempokertips.com or head on over to his informative website http://MyTexasHoldemPokerTips.com and read his free newsletter containing more Texas Hold Em Tournament Strategy