Poker articles

• Your first online Texas Holdem tournament

Playing Texas Holdem tournaments is definitely not easy, especially for those who are new to the tournament scene, players often display a bundle of nerves. It is quite easy in all of this nervousness to forget the strategies planned and the basics of every poker game intended to play here. [...]

• How to manipulate your Sit and Go opponents

Many poker players must have noticed that their opponents are going to play by using exactly the same strategy that you want them to play in a sit n go Texas Holdem tournament. This is beyond a player’s reasoning since it has happened without you having to resort to [...]

• Heads up Texas Holdem Strategies

If you’re playing heads up you will definitely need to understand instantly the kind of opponent you are playing. Saying this it is evident that the first step is to gather relevant information which will only benefit you. This allows you to see what your opponent was playing by [...]

• Tips on how to become a successful Texas Holdem player

Patience is definitely a virtue when it comes to playing Texas Holdem poker either online or offline. And only with the right amount of patience will you see yourself as a successful Texas Holdem player. If you are aggressive in a bad way, and it is impossible to maintain you’re [...]

• How to build a great bankroll out of poker and make it grow?

If you’re looking at playing poker online just for the heck off it, without any intention of making money or investing, and you consider it as a favorable pastime, then it can be fun. However if you’re looking at building your bankroll then you need to follow much disciplined route. When you play Holdem poker [...]

• Texas Holdem tips for beginners made easy

If you’re looking to play Texas Holdem poker and don’t know much about the game, then you have reached the right spot. Although these simple Holdem tips will not make you rich overnight, it will definitely help you imbibe the skills that every poker player needs. Texas Holdem is an interesting game, popular among players [...]

• Sit-N-Go Poker Tournament Tips

It is definitely is something to ponder about, how a few people make the best winnings by just playing Sit-N-Go, while some seem to struggle to win even the minimum and are much favorable to losses.
Wining in this game cannot be attributed to luck in anyways; a [...]

• Omaha High Low Poker Tips

Players who are well adjusted with a particular type of strategy in any kind of poker games will find that the transition difficult, especially with the Omaha High Low split style of strategy. One common mistake that poker players make is that they keep their strategy style intact and only deem the Omaha low hands [...]

• Five Card Draw Poker Tips

One of the most popular poker games these days at the online poker rooms is the five card draw game, it is quickly raising up the popularity charts.
If you’re new to this game, then it’s advisable that you learn all about it before you take the plunge. There are a few tips listed that [...]

• Winning Tips for HORSE Tournaments

It is not easy to win HORSE Tournaments, in fact the requirement is that in order to win a tournament a player will have to know and be good with all the five poker games.

It doesn’t matter if you’re not excellent in just one game, but you cannot even afford to be the worst [...]

• Why Cash Games are better than Online Poker Tournaments?

According to experts, cash poker games are preferred over tournaments.
This is because you tend to spend a lot of time with your group in a cash game, and this gives you the opportunity to maybe exploit your opponent’s weakness. Also, one can create an image to the rest of the group before maybe turning [...]

• Texas Holdem Strategies for Pot Limit Vs No Limit

If you’re aiming to win at the game of No Limit or Pot Limit Texas holdem, you will have to develop skills that will show different strategies and styles. Here are a few strategies that you might want to know of when playing the No Limit or the Pot Limit Texas Holdem.
In a fix? [...]

• Know Your True Holdem poker Style

Texas Holdem Poker is a complete game for professionals, and even professionals need to play this game with a lot of soul although it is much of an external competition as well. Just like any other sport, the game of Texas Holdem too requires a lot of understanding the game and practice in an environment [...]

• How to Play the Blind in Texas Holdem

A common misconception in Texas Holdem game is not accepting gifts. This is entirely wrong.
In the Holdem game there are no antes. If there are no antes or anything else that players can fight for playing the game is irrelevant. And if your opponents happen to be masters at it, you would only be [...]

• How Good the Players Exploit the Common Holdem Mistakes

To err is human! That’s how the phrase goes and is so true even when it comes to playing Texas Holdem. It is however necessary that a good player always learns from his pitfalls. If he happens to make the same mistakes several times, then he is not a good learner or a player. Opponents [...]

• Learn to Play Short Handed Texas Holdem (Limit)

Pros who play the Short Handed Texas Holdem (Limit) would all agree that playing the game with a lot of hands is the best. This may not go down really well with other players, but there is a certain hidden secret behind this strategy that has high possibilities that might let you win. Here are [...]

• Online Poker Tournament Tips

Playing an online poker tournament can really be tough in case you are not familiar with all the things you have to know related to a tournament. This is why sometimes you might get into panic and start making mistakes by forgetting the poker strategies you have to use in order to play and win. [...]

• How to Build and Keep a Solid Bankroll

Players always dream of the sweet siren sound when they take part in either a tournament or any kind of high stake game. These games do give out huge rewards, however players who are beginners, dive into the game head on, without knowing what they are getting into.

• Heads up Holdem Tips

One of Texas Holdems important features is playing the heads-up. This will help players benefit and make their game even stronger. The most important part of the game is heads-up, coupled with knowing your opponent along with the right mix of aggression.

• Tips on how to play Texas Holdem

The number of online users that are searching for tips on how to play Texas Holdem has significantly during the past couple of years. More people are trying to get as much information as possible about the game of Texas Holdem poker.

• Bluffing Techniques against Solid Holdem Players

When trying to bluff your way in a Holdem No limit game, you should question yourself on, what the possibilities are that your opponent has a hand. Also analyse if your bluff is sensible depending on the way a hand is played.

• Do you find placing bad beats as a bad decision?

Playing Texas Holdem and winning it has several probabilities, and always winning it is not one of them. There are several ups and downs a player has to repeatedly go through and learn the nuances of the game by their own experience. Playing Texas Holdem does not have a predetermined instruction [...]

• Moving from online Holdem to offline Holdem

Some players, after playing a lot of Texas Holdem online, decide to take an important step in their career and try to test their Texas Holdem skills in an offline poker room from a casino.

• Poker Tips: Bankroll Management

Bankroll Management is a term which is starting to become more and more popular in online Texas Holdem. Understanding how this works is becoming a necessity for every player as the online Texas Holdem are becoming tougher and tougher. From player to player you will see that everyone will have a different [...]

• Aggressive image – key of success in Texas Holdem?

An important aspect of Texas Holdem poker (online and live) is to create for yourself an image which is going to be used in your advantage. In case you are going to play aggressively you might get lucky, since most of the players will think that you are bluffing and the moment [...]

• Turbo Multi Table Tournament Tips

One of the biggest mistakes that you can do when you play Texas Holdem at a turbo Multi Table Tournament is to overcompensate for the fact that it’s a turbo and start playing too fast and loose during the first rounds. At the early stages of such a Texas Holdem tournament [...]

• Texas Holdem Bluffing Tips

Bluffing is one of the online Texas Holdem strategies that are considered to be hard to handle. Before we are going to present you the tips for using the bluffing strategies we are going to tell you exactly what bluffing means. In the world of Texas Holdem, bluffing is the art of [...]

• Should you be active early in a Texas Holdem tournament?

The type of the online Texas Holdem tournament that you are about to play is going to be the number one factor which should influence how active you want to be at the early stages of a tournament. In case you are going to go for a Sit & Go tournament you [...]

• Taking player notes – key of success in Texas Holdem

The moment you sit at a live poker table the only type of notes that you can take are the mental ones. However the moment you play an online game of Texas Holdem you will get the tremendous opportunity to use the player notes feature which is not granted in the live [...]

• General Texas Holdem Tips

The game variation of Texas Holdem gained a lot of popularity online during the last couple of years. This happened thanks to the large televised online poker tournaments that attracted more and more players. In order to be successful at playing Texas Holdem, all you need is a good and effective [...]

• Playing high pocket pairs

One of the biggest errors that novice and even intermediate players make in no-limit hold‘em, is that they don’t create the correct amount of action with the type of hand that they have! As an example, a player raises pre-flop with KK and gets two callers. The game is NL100 full-ring [...]

• Knowing opponents in Texas Holdem

It has always been my belief that knowing your opponents in pot-limit and no-limit Texas Holdem — how they usually play, and how they play in specific situations — is the most important Texas Holdem skill. I once took a friend who didn’t play much Texas Holdem with [...]

• Expected Utility in Texas Holdem poker

In other articles available on RoomReview.net we have already discussed the expected value concept in Texas Holdem poker. If you didn’t read this article, or if you don’t remember what the expected value is, you can continue reading this article anyway …

• Expected Utility in Texas Holdem Poker Part 2

Sometimes players get risk-averse even playing at their usual value and with their usual bankroll. Although in most cases it is a completely incorrect style of play, there are rare cases, when such decisions are warranted. For instance, you should be risk-averse in tournament play, where your chip stack is limited [...]

• Know When to Fold in Fixed Limit Texas Holdem

First of all you should note that this Texas Holdem strategy article is only applicable to Fixed Limit Texas Holdem poker. You mustn’t use these strategies in other types of the game, since their effectiveness has no value in No-Limit and Pot-Limit Texas Holdem games. Well, let’s discuss the subject of [...]

• Frequent mistakes of Texas Holdem players

This article describes some of the most frequent mistakes made by novice players and is geared towards both newbies and those, who feel that they don’t earn money they deserve. So, if you want to win at Texas Holdem and other poker games, then you must know these mistakes [...]

• Implied and Effective Odds Explained

Implied Odds

Most poker players understand that there is a mathematical element to the game that must be appreciated, even if the player does not allow his play to be dominated by mathematical ideas. Fortunately for poker players, most of the math in poker is very basic. One of the simplest, yet [...]

• Introduction to Advanced No-Limit Texas Holdem

If you want to earn a lot of money playing Texas Holdem poker, then you should consider playing No-Limit variant of the game. However, you must understand that No-Limit Texas Holdem is also the toughest Holdem derivative, which demands tremendous skills and incredible patience. But don’t get scared – No-Limit [...]

• Expected Value and Fold Equity Explained

Expected Value
In the early days of poker, when guys like Doyle Brunson and T.J. Cloutier “rode the white line” looking for good poker games wherever they could get them, no one ever thought about or discussed EV, or expected value. However, that doesn’t mean those old road gamblers weren’t using it. [...]

• How Americans Can Play Online Poker

When online poker first began, the large majority of players were Americans. For a long time poker was thought of as an American game, even though there have always been very strong players from England and other countries outside the U.S.
The UIGEA and American Poker
The online [...]

• River Betting in Texas Holdem

Each player has to make a lot of serious decisions throughout the game, but there are several key points in each game, when player’s decisions are especially important. First important decision that should be made by each player is whether to play or not to play a hand preflop. However, if [...]

• Short Tables in Texas Holdem tournaments

In a large Texas Holdem tournament, one of the tournament director’s jobs is to keep the tables full as much as possible. Eight or nine holdem players is considered an ideal number. (Ten holdem players is considered too many, as it promotes excessively tight play.) When a table shrinks to six [...]

• How to select a suitable Texas Holdem game

Poker in general and Texas Holdem in particular require a complex set of knowledge, but certain poker variants demand advanced knowledge of certain aspects of the game. Basically, player knowledge and skills can be divided into three categories. First of all this is tactics, the basics of poker strategy [...]

• The button, the small blind, and the big blind play in Texas Holdem

When everyone folds to the button in Holdem, an interesting dynamic develops between the three remaining poker players in the pot. We call this “the button, the small blind, and the big blind play”.
The button has seen most of Texas Holdem players at the table get out, and he’ll have [...]

• Massaging the Pot in Texas Holdem

The classic error that most Texas Holdem beginners make with a monster poker hand is an obvious eagerness to get all their chips in the pot. With the security of a big poker hand behind you, focus on getting your chips in the pot gradually. We call this massaging the pot, and [...]

• How to Become a Texas Holdem Professional

A lot of people envy the life of winning Texas Holdem players and dream to become Holdem experts too. It is not surprising, because most people dream to dedicate most time to their favorite game, earn a lot of money, participate in world famous events and travel around the world. In fact, it is a [...]

• Slow playing After the Flop in Texas Holdem: Candidate Hands

What poker hands are strong enough to slow-play after the flop in Texas Holdem?
Full house or four of a kind. Not only are these obviously good enough to slow-play, you must slow-play them. When you flop a full house, for example, there are very few cards left in the deck that can [...]

• Slow playing After the Flop in Texas Holdem

Slow-playing after the flop in Texas Holdem is much more common. In fact, we think it’s too common. Many Texas Holdem pros, perhaps trying to live up to their tricky, trappy image, overuse the slow-play concept. Our natural move is to bet good poker hands for value. When we do slow-play, we’re careful about picking [...]

• Slow-Playing Before the Flop in Texas Holdem

Very few poker hands are legitimate candidates for slow-playing before the flop in Texas Holdem. You might, for instance, choose to call rather than raise with poker hand like ace-queen suited, but what you’re doing is varying your texas holdem play so your holdem opponents can’t detect your betting pattern. The same holds true with [...]

• Slow-Playing in Texas Holdem

Slow-playing is just the opposite of bluffing in Texas Holdem. You have a strong poker hand, but you want to represent a weak poker hand, to lure more money into the pot. Slow-playing in Texas Holdem is a powerful trick that can either win a big pot or even knock an holdem opponent out of [...]