Entries by Billy Kernow
Surely ace king is the most overplayed hand in the history of no limit poker tournaments. Specifically when played by players who are impatient or new to the game. Invariably in online poker tournaments whenever someone in a hand is holding ace king you are probably going to either witness or participate in an oversized pot.
Losing to players who you know are weak can be frustrating, but the fact is that bad players will get lucky when playing weak hands and outdraw you. You have taken the time to learn the right hands to play, but sorry players seem to frequently defeat you playing weak hands.
This little walkthrough is designed to provide even the most inexperienced of online poker players the tools with which they can more easily and readily play at several tables at once whenever they take their skills onto the internet.
If you have had the displeasure of being summarily removed from a poker tournament, you will have no doubt agonised over your playing strategy and feel that you made some gross miscalculation in your strategy and that is what left you wide open for defeat. You will no doubt be feeling rather glum about your defeat but every cloud has a silver lining and if you are questioning your strategy then you are already on the path to improvement. It can be difficult at times to identify what areas of your poker playing need to worked upon, and so this article will consider them all in some detail.
A lot of critical decisions when playing either poker tournaments or hold'em cash games, requires you to put your opponent on a scope of hands. If you're able to do this with reasonable precision, your decisions at the poker table will invariably become rewarding over a period of time. However, determining your opponent's hole cards is certainly one of the more difficult aspects of the game to get really good at. Here is how you can start improving on it now.
Certain poker players would rather complain about a pot they lose. They actually think that complaining will make them feel better about what just happened.. Complaining is simply bad karma. Since it cannot help your strategy to engage in complaining, then you have to start asking yourself why you are doing it.
Everybody limps now and then for one reason or another in tournaments. Limping appears week, because usually the act of calling releases control of the hand to someone else at the table. But is limping a viable strategy when all of the poker training you hear about these days always slants to play more aggressive?
Once you have played just a few games of poker, you will have realized that no limit hold'em is a betting game, not a calling game. Exerting persistent pressure on opponents is a common characteristic of practically all professional poker players.
There's a new and exciting type of online poker called Rush Poker. This new high speed game is a lot of fun, and is attracting loads of gamblers and recreational players to the exclusive Rush Poker games at Full Tilt.
Playing poker against stupid players should be lucrative, but do you often find yourself losing to players who have no idea of what they are doing? This can be a deep frustration for players that are serious about improving their own game.