You are playing a $10-$20 Texas Holdem game with $2,500 stacks. A strong holdem player in middle position opens for $80. You call on the button with

and the blinds fold, so the pot is $190. The flop comes

giving you a double-gutshot straight draw. Your holdem opponent bets $150, and you call ($490 in [...]

You usually won’t be able to read your holdem opponent’s hand accurately enough to know exactly what two cards you’re up against. You’ll have a general idea: "I think she’s probably got a pair of queens, but she also might be slowplaying a set or have a straight draw."
Different strength poker hands will require [...]

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You may want to bet more than it takes to get the job done if you plan a follow-up bluff on the next betting round. That is, if you plan to bluff the turn, and, if called, also bluff the river, you don’t necessarily want to make your turn bet as small as possible.
A [...]

Perhaps this is obvious, but it’s worth saying anyway. The amount needed to get the job done is not always easy to figure out. Furthermore, it’s not necessarily linear either. That is, you can’t think of it like:

"Well, $20 will get him to fold a pair of deuces. $25 will fold treys. $50 will [...]

Poker is the most popular card game, which has many derivatives also known as poker variants. They are: Texas Holdem (and derivatives), Omaha Holdem (and derivatives), Seven Card Stud, Five Card Draw, Razz, etc. In other words, poker is a large family of card games that usually have identical betting rules and, in most [...]

Our analyses thus far have assumed that you always have had the best poker hand, and your holdem opponent always has been drawing (or second-best). In Texas Holdem practice, unless you hold the nuts, you will never be certain that you hold the best hand.

The more likely your holdem opponent is to have you [...]

In the preceding discussion of general Texas Holdem strategy we have been focusing on poker hands where your holdem opponent thinks he has to improve to win. In those cases your bet is highly related to the number of "outs" you think he has. But that is a minor consideration when you think he has [...]

In the first example of the section, you had A♥ A♠ on a Q♦ 7♦ 2♣ 4♠ board, the pot was $100, you and your holdem opponent each had $400 behind, and your holdem opponent was on a diamond flush draw. Our conclusion was that you should have bet at least $40 because he was [...]

In the previous example, you maximized your expectation against a single, known poker hand. If your holdem opponent can have one of several draws, you should maximize your expectation against the range as a whole. Sometimes doing this will mean allowing your holdem opponent to draw profitably with the strongest of his possible draws.
Put [...]

We’ve limited your bet sizes to a range: Bet more than they can call profitably, but bet less than what would almost certainly blow them off their poker hand. Now we need to figure out what the right size is within that range.
You want to choose the size that will maximize your expectation. Roughly [...]

Once you observe the basic betting rule in Texas Holdem poker and bet more than your holdem opponent can call profitably, you should now root for him to call. That’s because calling would be a mistake (if your opponent knew what you had), and you want your opponents to make mistakes even if they sometimes [...]

In the last example, we knew exactly what our holdem opponent’s draw was. In Texas Holdem practice, you rarely will. You may know that he’s likely to be drawing, but you won’t know whether he has a straight draw, a flush draw, bottom pair, etc.
Say you again have A♥ A♠ on the turn in [...]

What is "justifying your opponents’ optimistic calls in Texas Holdem?" Well, say you bet one-fifteenth of your stack with a good poker hand. Your opponent calls with a gutshot, because she figures that she’ll hit it one-eleventh of the time, and that she’ll stack you if she does and make fourteen times her investment.
If [...]

Implied Odds in Holdem
Real Texas Holdem is played with hands facedown, though. If you have pocket jacks and all you know from your opponent’s reraise is that he has a "good" poker hand, but not necessarily pocket aces, then your situation is weaker.
For instance, we said before that about one-ninth of the time you’ll [...]

Say you have $500 in a $2-$5 blind Texas Holdem game. In middle position, you make it $20 to go with

 
Everyone folds to the big blind, who has you covered. He says, "raise." As he goes to his stack to cut off enough chips for his raise, he accidentally shows you his poker hand [...]

Say you are playing $2-$5 no limit Texas Holdem with $500 stacks. You are in the big blind with

Someone opens from middle position for $20. You call. The flop is so you flopped a set.

Obviously, you want a big pot. Your goal should be to get the remaining $480 into the [...]

This skill is similar to, but separate from, winning the battle of mistakes in Texas Holdem. Your opponents’ states of mind will shape their thought processes. If they’ve been winning a lot, they might be more prone to play one style. If they’ve been losing, they might play another. You can make certain noteworthy plays [...]

Most players know that reading hands is a critical Texas Holdem skill. If you can consistently and accurately deduce what your opponents’ cards are, you can beat the best players in the world.
Hand reading is deeper than many players seem to think it is. It’s not just about knowing what you have and guessing [...]