Poker Strategy - The Essential Strategy Guides That Will Help You Win

SNGs are excellent bankroll builders. Testimony to their efficiency is the fact that most poker strategy experts recommend that you play SNGs when you’re trying to nurse a fledgling bankroll to life. There are high stakes poker pros out there who focus on SNG play, to the point that they don’t even play anything else. There’s money in them there SNGs, that much is certain. It’s also certain though that it takes skill to get your hands on that money.

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Many of the online poker rookies come to the realization after a while that big hands win small pots. Therefore, by analogy, small hands have to win large pots. Their logic – although flawed – is easy to relate to: people do tend to call and to make raises on big hands, therefore small hands can sneak in a nasty punch which usually no one sees coming. The problem with the logic is that it’s based on partial truths but regardless of that it is sometimes fully valid indeed. Among the beginners, there’s a tendency to get married to hands.

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Deep stack Holdem events are more and more frequent, although the average online poker player may still end up never having to face such a tournament structure. The reason many of the high buy-in, high profile live events feature deep stacks is that players complained in the past that regular starting stacks leave too much room for the luck factor in the tournament.

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Tournament players have long known that the amount of chips they have in their stacks dictates the optimal course of action in every hand they play. The same is true for cash games: what may be an excellent idea with a large stack backing you up, is tomfoolery on a short-stack. The general truth is that large stacks will give you several options and therefore greater freedom at the tables, while shorter stacks will limit your options.

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An interesting thing about online poker beginners: most of the time they don’t know why they bet. They don’t have an actual goal in mind when they fire out an X-sized bet. Many will tell you ‘well, I fired out that bet to see what sort of reaction it generates with my opponents’. Other times they call, chasing a drawing hand which never materializes. A savvy poker player knows exactly what he wants to achieve with the chips he pushes into the middle every time, whether it’s through a call, a bet or a raise.

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A night out at a casino is the ultimate in luxurious entertainment. Getting dressed up and going out with friends is almost as good as the thought that there might be a big win in there somewhere. A big win will definitely not happen for everyone, but while the possibility is there a casino night will always pull in the crowds. However, not everyone is able to go to a casino in person, which has ensured that online casinos have grown in popularity. Poker nights have always been popular and now they can be made part of a wider casino themed party.

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Set mining is a practice – basically a simplified strategy-approach – well known by pretty much all experienced online poker players. Set mining is about the extreme exploitation of the implied odds that drawing hands like poker pairs generate. The theory behind set-mining is simple: the player tries to see a flop as cheaply as possible every time he picks up a pocket pair (yes, even small pocket pairs like deuces do just fine), in the hope of making a set.

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Online poker has changed the game of poker forever, and if there was one particular factor I’d have to put my finger on, in regards to this change, it’d have to be multi tabling. Putting the issue of accessibility and speed aside (after all, online poker has pretty much put the days of driving for hours in search of a poker game behind us as well as those of being dealt into 20 hands per hour), multi tabling has revolutionized the game in a much more fundamental way

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Believe it or not, sometimes, drawing hands may have more equity in a Holdem pot than a made hand. Of course, this isn't just any drawing hand that we’re talking about. These drawing hands, known as combo draws are special: they have a bunch of outs and thus a high likelihood of actually making a monster hand. Combo draws have at least 12 outs, which makes them so solid that they just have to be played on just about any flop.

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Whenever you read poker site reviews or various poker promotions, it’s always nice and reassuring to see that “you can qualify online for as little as $1” for the massive, high buy-in live event that you dream about. While it is indeed theoretically possible to qualify for small change, you shouldn’t take that literally. There are no guarantees when it comes to online qualifiers and the deeper down you go in the sub-satellite structure, the less likely a successful qualification becomes. Those who do indeed start from $1 sub-sub-sub satellites need a boatload of luck plus a few boatloads of skill to make it all the way.

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