Poker Strategies

Here you can find over 500 poker strategy articles across all skill and experience levels to help you improve your game both in live- and online poker. Including essential strategy tips for beginners, cash game and tournament Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7-Card Stud & other poker games.

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What’s in the Poker Strategy Section?

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Our broad categories (and subcategories) of poker strategy articles cover the most important aspects of general poker strategy tips and more. A huge focus, of course, is on introductory strategy articles for poker beginners so they can learn the how to play poker reasonably well as quickly as possible. A read-through and review of all the major strategy elements we cover will give any amateur poker player all the tools they need to start winning in their local game. Playing poker is not as easy as one might think, it is alot of strategy, takes alot of poker skills, playing with the correct pot odds etc.

If you aspire to a more advanced level of poker strategy we’ve got content made for you too, with in-depth articles featuring insight from some of the world’s top poker players. Odds, outs, tells, tournaments, cash games, Sit & Gos, heads-ups, turbos, slow playing, Spin & Gos … it’s all here for your perusal, at your leisure, and it’s all entirely FREE. Progress entirely at your own pace and never pay any monthly subscription fees, we can teach you how to be a professional poker player for free!

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Poker Strategies & Tips for Beginners

If you’re new to competitive poker and want to start trying to turn a profit, definitely spend some time in here building more of the fundamental tools you need in your poker journey to play a game where you are in control of the big pots, not your opponents.

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Strategies for Intermediate Players

Once you have gone through the start-up guides we keep adding on more essential building blocks of solid poker strategy and poker tips here. These articles are intended for people getting their feet wet in competitive poker and who want to acquire the rudiments of higher-level poker strategy to advance their games. You will find key tips and concepts of poker in a wide variety of fields.

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Poker Strategies for Advanced

Master advanced poker strategies to outsmart your opponents and elevate your game. Learn to read hands, bluff effectively and maximise your winnings with expert-level tactics. In this section, our experts tackle tough situations in the game and give you tips on how to handle them with a cool head.

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Poker Strategy Omaha, Stud & More

Poker is not just Hold’em! In fact the history of poker tells us the Texas Holdem era we are in now is just a very small part of the game’s storied and romantic past. 5-Card Draw, 7-Card Stud, Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball, Courchevel, Chinese Poker, Badugi, Badeucy, Mixed Games … there is a veritable rainbow of poker games out there to be learned and enjoyed and, in fact, have been the dominant forms of poker for far longer than Holdem. Just think of all the western movies, they are not sitting at a poker table playing Hold’em.

If you’ve found your entry point to the game of poker via Holdem that is truly great. But there is a big world of great games out there to explore so we hope you dig into our strategy articles on other poker variants and take a stab at some new games. Maybe finds some poker sites online and try them at first. We’ve got a big section on Omaha poker in particular but Stud, 2-7 Lowball, Draw games and mixed games articles are all there too, we hope, pique your interest in the wider poker world.

Insider Poker Tip

The advantage of progressing in poker games less practiced by most is you will find a lot of soft games you can profit from, just remember to evaluate your poker hand, play tight and not with more money than you can afford to lose, always play responsibly!

Poker Strategy – Math, Odds & Bankroll

Think poker math is to complicated to understand? Think you’ll never be able to calculate your pot odds, implied odds and real-time outs at the table without having a calculator by your side? Dont worry, we are here to tell you poker math is not really all that hard. There are shortcuts and tricks you can use to get good estimates of your odds and outs very easily. And once you get a handle on the basics the advance poker math is not far from your grasp either.

How much money do you really need to play poker? We handle that one too, in our Poker Bankroll Management section. Dabble in our poker math, poker odds and poker bankroll strategy articles and you will feel far more confident in your overall poker game in no time.

Poker Psychology

Last but not least. When talking about poker you will often hear something along the lines of “it’s not the cards you receive, but how you play your opponents.” So is psychology the most important aspect of poker? In any case it is one of the paramount parameters and without the right state of mind and the proper state of mind, you will have a hard time really succeeding in poker. Self-confidence, wisdom, mental endurance, management of stress and emotions, brain function, NLP and non-verbal language … these are just some of the topics covered. You can also make use of them in your everyday life, we promise!