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Hi Guys,

If you make money playing one table, think how much you can make playing two, three or even more. At first you should only play one table at a time to get used to the game and to the poker room. Pretty soon you will realise how many hands you are folding and how unexciting it can be. You will be tempted to start playing weaker hands just to keep yourself interested. It is a very bad idea if making money is your plan. I would propose to play at least four tables for two reasons: to stop monotony and of course if your a winning player, multiply your money making. But don’t be too greedy, with too many open tables, you might loose concentration and take wrong decisions.

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Bankroll Management (Full ring)

Rules for Limit holdem, No limit Holdem and tournaments.

The rule for an appropriate Limit holdem bankroll is to have at least 300 BB for the limit you’re playing. With a $60 bankroll you should be playing no higher then 0,10/0,20 limit. By having 300 big bets you should be able to handle the short term swings and have minimal chances of going broke.

For No limit Holdem , your minimum bankroll should be 20 buy-ins. With a $200 bankroll you’d have 20 buy-ins for $10 NL holdem (usually .05/.10 blinds). The next step would be $20NL holdem, but you’ll first have to reach a $400 bankroll before playing that limit.

For Tournaments it is recommended that you have a bankroll that will give you 40 buy-ins to the level that you wish to play at. Therefore if you want to play at the $1+$0,1 Sit n Go’s you should have a bankroll of (at least) $44.
If you intend to make money from playing poker, it is essential that you exercise good bankroll management skills. If you do not, then you are setting yourself up for frequent losses that you will find hard to prevent, no matter how good you may be at poker.

You should be ready to drop down a limit when your bankroll no longer justifies the stakes you’re playing. It’s not a big deal; you just have to build yourself back up. Sometimes good players will be stubborn and refuse to go down a limit. Sometimes it works out, and other times they’ll lose a lot more money or even bust.
Gamblers will come and go, but in the long run the players controling their bankroll correctly will always come out ahead...

Things to have in mind....

There are several things you can do to avoid being overlaped by better players and they are all pretty simple. The only thing it requires is a little effort.

1. Pay attention to the table at all times

Pay attention to what’s going on at the table even when you’re not playing hands. If you’re playing multiple tables at a time, this is difficult but not impossible. Arrange and resize the tables on your monitor(s) so that they are tiled and you can see all tables at all times. Whenever there’s a showdown, check the hand histories. Take notes on your opponents. Basically, stay alert at the tables.

2. Save your hand histories

Save your hand histories and review the hands that gave you the most trouble. Take a look at the big pots you played in your last session and analyze you and your opponents’ play on each street. Find a poker forum and post these hand histories for discussion with other poker players.

3. Stay up to date with poker strategy

Nobody will ever know everything there is to know about poker. That’s just fine with me, because it means there’s no limit to the pure knowledge you can acquire during your poker career. Read poker strategy books, check out strategy websites / poker forums and watch the top high stakes players in action. You don’t need to be the best player in the world; you only need to be better than the people at your table.

Regards

Great Poker Books

I advise you all to read, read and read !!! It is one of the best ways to learn the game !

Here some good ones:

Ace On The River - Barry Greenstein
Caro's Book of Poker Tells - Mike+Caro

David. Sklansky Theory.of.poker
David Sklansky - The Eight Mistakes In Poker

Doyle Brunson's Super System - A Course In Power Poker By Doyle Brunson
Doyle brunson's super system (poker)

Harrington on Hold em Vol I
Harrington on Hold em Vol II

Internet Texas Hold'em Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro - Matthew Hilger
Lee Jones Winning low limit holdem

Online No-Limit Texas Hold'em Poker for Beginners - August Omeara
Phil Gordon's Little Green Book - Phil Gordon

Poker for Dummies
Poker Math MadeEasy

Ryan Fee - 2p2NL 6max

Texas Holdem Brain
Texas Holdem Short Handed
Total Poker Pro

Secrets of Winning

If you want, i can lend you one of these books. Just contact me to aboutholdempoker@hotmail.com


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How to be a Pro Poker Player

Aggression is a Key Factor

The aggressive player is the one who bets and raises often. He has the initiative most of the time and determines the flow of the table, controling it.
If people suspect they’re up against a strong hand, they tend to play a more straightforward game. If they think they’re up against a strong hand, they obviously don’t want to bluff and they don’t want to play weak hands. In the end, they fold all of their weak hands and only continue if they have a strong hand. That’s oversimplifying it a bit, but the basic idea is sound - aggression makes it harder to play tricky against you.
So, by playing an aggressive game you give yourself some major advantages over the competition. Not only are you obtaining more money in with strong hands but you’re also charging people to draw and making them more likely to pay off your strong hands. On top of all those advantages, you’re making your opponents play a more predictable game against you.

Playing "Over Your Head"

Playing "Over Your Head" means that you might be playing stakes higher than your bankroll can handle and/or you are playing with much more experienced players than you.

If you are protecting your money, other players will read that in your play. If you are afraid to call a big bet because you might be wrong and not doing the bets you would normally call or (re)raise. Afraid to protect your hand, hands you would normally protect... You are playing "Over your Head"

"Help" your Bankroll so be careful that you choose the right stakes.

Practicing Pot Control

When practicing pot control, you must take into consideration:

Strength of your hand vs. the range of your opponent’s hand: This is more of a decision call based on past experience, reads on the opponent, texture of the board and betting patterns. There is a lot to consider when trying to guess the strength of your hand vs. the range of the opponent.
Stack sizes: As a general rule the range of hands with which you are willing to showdown with all the chips in the middle should be wider with a 25BB stack than with a 100BB stack. This means you should be much more disposed to put a 25BB stack all in with top pair top kicker (TPTK) than you would with a 100BB stack.
Style of the opponent: If you have TPTK against a chaser (who doesn’t look at odds to call), you will want to bet the hand very aggressively and let him pay you off. If you have top pair top kicker against an aggressive player who has a wide range that you can’t read, you will want to practice pot control to keep the pot small. If you have top pair against a calling station, you will be frequently on the right place to make bigger bets on the flop, turn and river. With top pair against a rock (Very tight player) you still usually want to avoid a situation where you end up with all of your chips in the middle of the table.

Regards

Slowplaying Big Hands

Hi Guys,

Slowplay is a term for playing a strong hand passively to keep the opposition in the game, to give the impression of a weaker hand and give the opportunity to your opponents to improve their hand giving them false hopes of winning. However when you slowplay then you risk giving an opponent the chance to catch up and overtake you.
If the board is showing “dangerous” cards for your opponent. For example three cards to a ♦ flush, and you have hit the diamonds flush, then it may be better to slowplay as your opponents will be scared off quite rapidly. If you have the nut flush (an Ace♦ on your hole cards or a K♦ with the Ace♦ on the board) it may be the right thing to give a free card hoping that your opponent is holding one card (like a Q♦) to the flush and catches up a bit on the next card.
On the contrary, if the board is showing frightening cards for you - then take the pot down there (don’t wait to end this hand as another “bad beat story”). So if there is two cards to a flush or a straight chance which would beat your good hand, then make your opponents pay to see another card and make them play against the odds if they are on a draw.
Be carefull slowplaying versus multiple players. If there is more than one opponent in the pot with you, try to restrict the field down with a bet. With more than one opponent in the pot there is more chance one of them will catch up.

Best Regards

Becoming a Poker Pro

Imagine a job where you could establish your own working hours, answered to no one and could take as many holidays as you wanted. These job specs may seem unachievable, but they are when you become a professional poker player. This may explain why so many part-time players are trying to adopt this lifestyle. So what does it take to go pro?

Some people would like to classify poker as a sport. However, if you’re not careful, poker can take a charge on your body and your mind. And if you’re not completely fit mentally or physically, there’s no way you can survive very long as a successful poker player. The first thing you need to play any game for a living is patience. Playing every day, all day, can get extremely tiring. Staring at a computer screen for hours on end can drive you insane. Do yourself a favour. Don’t wake up and run immediately to your PC. Start to brush your teeth, shave (if you have to), take a shower, and eat breakfast. Start your day by taking care of yourself, and you’ll find yourself better able to make it through a poker day. As I just mentioned, you will probably spend at least eight hours a day, five days a week in front of a computer screen with little or no company.
Forget the image of being a poker star and appearing at Poker TV shows. Few professional players will ever get to do this on a regular basis. The life of the anonymous internet pro is quite monotonous. That’s why a passion for the game is imperative.

Table Selection:

Unless you live in Vegas or have access to regular, lucrative games, the most realistic path for becoming a poker pro is through internet play. Good table selection is far harder when playing live because you would need to go to different casinos to see which has the best game that night and this is time consuming. You have to join the waiting list and hope the bad players are still there if and when you get a seat. Compare that with all the advantages of the online game and the internet is the clear choice. You can use software with pattern recognition, session stats and hand analysis (like Protracker) and you can always multi-table which is a huge edge because it allows players to increase their hourly rate.

Bankroll Management:

Without bankroll you can’t have a professional attitude and without that attitude there is no professional poker player.

Some months you'll actually experience a loss in total earnings. You must be able to cope with this and still have the confidence you need to win. You'll encounter some horrible runs along the way so be prepared.

Read my posts (or the ones made by Capital7) about this vital factor in a Poker Carer.

Downswings:

1. Stop playing ! Take a few days off to regain serenity, analyse your game and look for leaks.

2. Drop way down the levels and get back to playing aggressive, confident poker without the worry of losing 3 our 4 buy-ins.

While you are on tilt, you are not a professional poker player. You are a professional gambler and a donator to the game. If you’re going to take a break, make it a real break. Distance yourself completely from poker. The more well-balanced your life is, the better your poker experience and results will be.

Results:

Don’t take premature conclusions on your results. If you are in profit after 25,000 hands you are probably doing okay. If you are in profit after around 250,000 hands you are beating the game.

Conclusion:

You can’t endure in online poker over the long run if you don’t put your physical and mental health at risk. Take care of yourself first, be disciplined and well-organized, tracking all your activity, and you will give your poker a chance to pursue!

I hope this post hasn't discouraged you if you have ideas of playing professionally. If you think you can do it, you will have to buy every book and read everything you can to become a winning player.

Regards

Playing Shorthanded Tables

Hi Guys,

It is better to play Full ring or shorthanded? There advantages and disadvantages in both options. Let’s see the advantages of shorthanded tables:

First of all, there are more bad players (fishes). The higher the limit you play, the fewer full ring tables are available. Shorthanded tables catch the attention of bad players and I think is it probably due to the faster and looser game that is normally played at these tables.

Also your win rate can increase as you are more often involved in a hand against these bad players and also since you are loosen up your own game.

Finally you are playing more hands per hour with the same amount of tables for the simple reason that six players finish a hand faster than ten players. As a result, your hourly win rate will increase.

Variance is higher in shorthanded games. So I recommend a more conservative bankroll management.

But be careful, this doesn't mean that you have reached a goldmine. You must play your best poker and don't believe in easy money...

Regards

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Expected Value (EV)

The expected value (or EV), of a move is the average gain/loss that results from a situation taking into account all possible results and their probabilities.

In order to calculate expected value, you take every possible outcome, multiply each by the odds of that outcome happening, and then adding those numbers altogether.

Example: Suppose you made a bet with me on a coin flip. If it is heads, I give you $5. If it is tails, you give me $1. Should you take this bet, assuming that the coin is a normal one and has a fifty-fifty chance of landing on heads or tails? Of course you should. This is a very good EV situation.

There is a 50% chance of it landing on heads, meaning you will win $5. So, your expected win is $2,5 (0.50*$5). If it lands on tails, you lose $1. So, your expected loss is $0.50 (0.50*$1). Your expected profit is the expected win minus the expected loss. Thus, your expected profit is $4.50. Isn't that great!!!!

In the long run, you will win, even if the coin lands tails the first 20 times in a row, in the long run, it will land 50% of the time heads and you will have profit!!!

Taking advantage of your table image

Table image is how your opponents become aware of your play. Your table image is constantly being evaluated. Your image may be completely different a few orbits on from what it happens to be in a given moment.

Once you get into the routine of paying attention to your own image, you must constantly observe how your opponents react to different playing styles.

When faced with aggression, do they slow down and wait for a hand, trying to trap you, or do they play back at you? When you are playing tight do they try and run you over? Do they get out of your way when you're betting? If you are playing loose-aggressive, which is becoming the usual style in online play, you, more than ever, need to pay attention to your table image.

Changing gears is extremely important. The flow of the table is always changing and you should be able to change with it. If you can vary your play enough, you're going to be a very difficult player to play against!
You should be able to move from playing ultra-aggressive to ultra-tight when the situation dictates. If you are going to be playing the loose-aggressive approach, you have to be able change it when necessary...

The trick to playing successful poker is to integrate these styles into your game and be able to switch back and forth as your opponents' perception of your image is determined. The beautiful thing about the game of poker is that no specific playing style can be considered ideal.

Conclusion: If your opponents are uncertain of how you are playing, they are going to make mistakes that will translate into dollars in your account

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