Winning Hand

Watch other players – keep an eye on who plays the most hands, despite their hands. Who is close to being ALL-IN and will probably risk all on whatever hand they have? Which players BLUFF (some never do)? Which players bet hard to get rid of other players early? You can concentrate on the other players easiest when you have folded, but try to note such things even when you are still in the game.

Low Pairs – from seven-seven down. Play these very carefully as you could be setting yourself up for a loss. If in doubt then throw them away, but if you do manage to hold on look out for at least Three of a Kind or you are probably on a loser.

Vary your play – keep other players guessing throughout your game, don’t only RAISE pre-flop when you have a very strong hand, and don’t only FOLD when you are not in posession of good cards. If they can’t read your game then they won’t be able to follow a beginners pattern that will lead them to have an idea what you have.

BLUFF – Good players often pull off a major steal through good timing of BLUFFs. Use the player watching technique and bad FLOPs to go all out for a win – beginners will often be intimidated out of the hand, good players will be more difficult – but once you get a profile of their playing style you will be able to make this work.

Beginners beware! – Don’t rush your money away. All too often we see inexperienced players playing with hands that really should have been FOLDed before the FLOP. Don’t get caught out – use our tip to only play so many hands in every three or five hands.

So there’s the 411 hope you enjoyed this weeks post and now to the video have fun and GO PLAY POKER! 

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