Low-Limit Omaha offers plenty of opportunities for patient players. Most of Low-Limit Omaha tables are crowded with loose players, because many of them think that the Two Pair is quite sufficient to win. The best strategy to consider is to play hands, which do well in multi-way pots and bet aggressively, when you hold the [...]

The purpose of this article is to introduce you to Pot-Limit Omaha Hi and explain some basic and in-depth aspects of this game.
Pot-Limit Omaha is a unique game compared to other poker games, including Texas Holdem. It’s also one of few poker games, which are more popular in Europe than in the US . Besides [...]

The purpose of this article is to introduce our readers to Omaha and give basic overview of game’s rules and features.
Omaha rules:
Omaha is somewhat similar to Texas Holdem: each player is dealt with 4 hole cards and everyone share 5 community cards dealt face up on the board. However, just as in Texas Holdem, [...]

Texas Holdem Poker can be an extremely exciting game. It is obviously better than any casino games, because you play against other players, not the house – that’s why skilled players can win serious money in the long run.
However, you should also know the following. First of all, the vast majority of novice Texas Holdem [...]

The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with Limit Texas Holdem strategy for shorthand games (games involving six or fewer players). This article is mainly geared towards beginners and contains valuable tips on how to easily win in low-limit shorthand Texas Holdem games. Understanding how to successfully play shorthand games is a very [...]

The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with the basic Limit Texas Holdem strategy for Longhand games (i.e. games involving eight or more players). This article gives valuable tips on how beginners can play winning Longhand Limit Texas Holdem at the lower limits ($2/$4 tables, or less).
Choosing good starting hands.
This is the [...]

This article introduces No-Limit Texas Holdem poker, contains general overview of Texas Holdem rules and betting structure and provides valuable tips, strategies and many in-depth aspects of the game. No-Limit Texas Holdem is a game of basic strategy, general tactical skills applied in most types of poker and a battlefield for intense psychology.
First of all, [...]

A simple trial-and-error method works well with all kinds of activities, including Texas Holdem Poker. For example, if you play soccer, you can improve your shooting skills through practice. When you hit the gate, you try to understand what made you strike well and when you miss, you avoid what you believe had caused that [...]

Each and every thing has a dark side and so does Texas Holdem Poker. Quite everybody, even skilled poker pros can go on tilt. Going on tilt means letting your emotions badly impact your ability to play. Although every Texas Holdem player has experienced this disrupting state at least once during his career, it is [...]

The purpose of this article is to make you aware of common mistakes that many Texas Holdem beginners make and thus help you to avoid them in the future.
First mistake: playing too many hands.
When novice Texas Holdem players sit down in a game – they want to play, which often means that they willingly [...]

A distressing trend I’ve noticed in the online Texas Holdem community is that players seem to willingly follow strict guidelines, when they learn Texas Holdem and start playing the game. Many seem to treat Texas Holdem like blackjack, where there is always optimal strategy for each particular situation.
Try to believe me that Texas Holdem Poker [...]

The purpose of this article is to familiarize you with advanced strategy for No-Limit Texas Holdem. According to Doyle Brunson, a famous Texas Holdem player and author of many poker books, No-Limit Texas Holdem is a Cadillac of all existing poker games, because the skill involved within No-Limit Texas Holdem games is simply tremendous, so [...]

The purpose of this page is to explain some troublesome situations that may appear in shorthand Fixed-Limit Texas Holdem games. This article provides valuable tips and practical examples of some of the most frequent game situations and solutions.
Small pocket pairs (77 or lower).
Preflop strategy:
Small pocket pairs work well in large, multi-way pot Limit Texas [...]

You may agree or not but the history of poker proves that all successful poker players must be able to make an opportune bluff .
The bluff is considered to be probably the most contradictory Texas Holdem concept, although it is not used as often as people believe. Texas Holdem without bluffing would become an uninteresting [...]

A loose passive table is usually considered to be the most suitable for a beginner.
This kind of the table is characterized by the flop and non-aggressive betting (few raises or re-raises). And players can see that clearly. In those games they are playing starting hands with negative expected value and they are not protecting strong [...]

There are many players-beginners who consider playing Texas Holdem online to be completely different than that offline. In most case we are right but the reasons of this distinction they name are too far to be true.
It is well-known that online you can’t observe your opponents that makes it difficult to “read�? them, as it [...]

Every body knows that in order to be good in a certain field you should have some skills and qualities which will lead you to success. So, if you wand to win steadily at Texas Holdem, you should cultivate discipline most of all, because all other skills depend on discipline. To be discipline d is [...]

Why play Texas Holdem Poker? Though this may seem to be a simple question, the answer appears to be both complex and personal. Almost all players name different reasons for their choice, but all successful players agree that Texas Holdem is a great game. However, though the reasons that players have for choosing Texas Holdem [...]

The purpose of this article is to explain the bankroll concept and answer probably the most important financial question: how much money should a Texas Holdem beginner invest to succeed? Indeed this is an important question and it has two simple answers.
If you are new to Texas Holdem or just look for fun, then you [...]

This is a short jargon reference that explains basic Texas Holdem terms frequently used during the game, on this site and in other poker books and guides. This article presumes that you already know basic Texas Holdem rules. If you are looking for some specific terms that weren’t mentioned in this article, see our Texas [...]

In Texas Holdem, pot odds denote the ratio of the current size of the pot to the cost of the contemplated call. This means that if the pot is $200 and you must call $20 in order to stay in the pot, then you get 200-to-20, or 20-to-2, which can be expressed as 10:1 pot [...]

When you start playing Texas Holdem poker, you will more than likely keep to low-limit games. Winning low-limit games doesn’t require you to be a skilled Texas Holdem player, but it entails improvement of your basic skills and better understanding of the game. Some day you will move to the higher limits, but beating strong [...]

Play money games are very popular among Texas Holdem newbies and are available in almost all online poker rooms. In these games, where no real money is wagered, players do not actually risk anything of value, but they don’t win anything too. Texas Holdem played for fake, virtual chips is a game of fun, not [...]

Texas Holdem sharks are usually described as tight and aggressive players: “Texas Holdem pros never play many hands, but when they do play a hand, they play it like they have the nuts.�? Though this is a rather nice and precise description of a skilled Texas Holdem player, it doesn’t say much about their skills [...]

Vast majority of winning Texas Holdem players have started with home games. Home games are way easier than casino games and they are truly simple. The structure of home games is usually similar to Limit Texas Holdem – everyone would ante a certain amount of money, say $0,50 and then the betting is structured as [...]

Understanding Good Starting Hands is probably the most important basic skill of a successful Texas Holdem player. This means that you must be able to decide which pocket cards are worth to be called and which ones must be folded preflop. Although the exact answer in each particular situation depends on type of the game [...]

Texas Holdem poker is not just a game of complex calculation and applied mathematics. It also involves many personal abilities of a player and entails a lot of psychological confrontation. The three most important and most frequently used psychological weapons in Texas Holdem poker are semi-bluffing, bluffing and slow playing. What differs bluffing from semi-bluffing [...]

You are automatically directed to the lobby by means of the poker room application. In the lobby you can find all available cash games and tournaments with respective game details per table (such as number of players seeing flop, pot value, hands played per hour, etc., each of these as a moving average value for [...]

Online Texas Holdem has been increasing its popularity extremely fast these days. The main reasons of such success, besides the obvious fact that Texas Holdem is an fascinating game with great recreational value, are the flexibility, speed and global 24/7 access afforded by playing online.
Texas Holdem as a sport has received substantial media coverage since [...]

If you ask me to give you an example of a man who build a fortune from almost nothing playing Texas Holdem, I would not doubt to much in choosing one for you. I am the one who can serve as an example for proving that with enough drive a poker player can turn as [...]

In Limit (and sometimes even No-Limit) Texas Holdem, you’ll see a lot of “Raise, Call, Call and Call” going on. From time to time, you’ll feel a desire to limp in on hands, but don’t make a habit of it. In this case you should avoid temptation. And here are key reasons why:
The raiser controls [...]

Playing the best texas holdem you can – should be the only one thing you really think about when you sit down at your favourite game. The way to success is to bring your A-game to the table every time. But is it possible for anyone to play for a long time at peak performance?
If [...]