Any tips for Poker playing?
18 January 2009
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larry G asked:
I am kinda of new at Poker. I know what a straight, flush, full house etc but i need some tips as when to raise, what hands to keep, what to fold and how to calculate probabilities.
I am kinda of new at Poker. I know what a straight, flush, full house etc but i need some tips as when to raise, what hands to keep, what to fold and how to calculate probabilities.
I saw on the WSOP that players can calculate odds of winning with their hands, how do you do that?
i just go with my gut and am not afraid to go all in, it works for me
they use some weird calculator its illegal in real play but they were narrators. Um full house usually raise on, pocket pair, potential striaght on the first 3 cards flipped um flop river somethin like that( i forgot wat its called) if you have 5 7 and theres 6 9 and 2 out odds are your gonna get a straight.
One thing you can try is going to this site:
It’s an informational website that teaches you how to gamble. You can’t play poker on that site and they don’t accept wagers but it’s a good site for beginners to learn.
Then you should play poker online at sites that will let you play for free. Like anything else, the more you play, the better you’ll get. You can play poker online for free at
You can also play for real money on that site too. Good luck.
Firstly i would suggest you start playing on fulltiltpoker for .5/.10 with a 100 dollar bankroll.
Every single link in this article is a must read if you want to become better. The link itself is also a must read. Im not trying to be lazy (well sorta), but the link and the links inside the link are very informative. It discusses poker probabilities (pot odds) and lots of strategy. Guess what? It also includes reasons to raise! Perfect huh?
Damn yahoo answers isnt letting me post the link.. just go to wikipedia and type in poker strategy.
One thing not stated in this link though is hand selection. Play only AK, AQ, AA-TT. When you start getting better start playing KJ, QJ, Q10s 22-55, suited connectors 67-T9s in late position, KQ, AJ, J10s, QJs 99-66 in middle position or better, and AQ, AK, TT-AA in early position or better. All these hands should be raises 3xbb if you have good position. If someone else raises 3xbb fold KJ, QJ, 22-44 in all positions. Fold AJ in middle position or worse. As you can see the later the position the more hands you can play. This is because you act later which gives you more information. Information=money.
Also when you watch tv, you will notice the %’s of them winning. However, you have know their exact hand. This isnt possible. However, you can make educuated guesses about their hand range by their betting actions, physical tells, flow of the game, what type of player he is, and the board. This comes from expirience and lots of careful observation though and shouldnt worry about this aspect of the game yet.
Plz feel free to post any additional details if you need help or dont get the linkor what i posted.
Do not play for money if you do not know how to play the game play for free on yahoo and learn to play well.
To figure your outs you need to use the rule of 4 and 2. This means that you times your outs by 4 on the flop and 2 on the turn. For example lets say that you flop a flush draw, you have 9 spades for an out for sure, so 9 times 4 is 36, so you are about 36% to hit your flush on the turn. Now if you miss the flush card on the turn, you times it by two, so 9 times 2 is 18. So you are now about 18% to hit your flush on the river. Now you may give yourself an extra out with over cards to the board, but using this way you can give yourself a clue of where you are at. Now there may be only 7 spades in the deck because you don’t know how many spades are dealt out, so you may be worse off then you think. As for pre-flop you just learn what the odds are like any over pair like aces vs kings is 80/20, any single ace against a pair is 70/30. The more you play the more you will know the odds.
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