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Playing Poker - How To Get Started
Finally, every continuation bet you make keeps your opponents guessing. Sometimes you're betting with nothing and other times you're betting with strong hands. You want to keep it mixed up so that in the end your opponents are more likely to call when you have strong hands and to fold when you have weak hands.

So before you even think about learning poker tournament strategy, you have to learn the basics. Get acquainted with the hands - which beats what and which ones you would really want to be holding. Learn about the blinds, or bets, and how you can use them to your advantage. Familiarize yourself with the difference between cash games and tournaments and the techniques that are best used in each of them. Most of all, practice your poker face. When you're ready, it's time to move forward and start planning your poker tournament strategy.

poker betting strategy You raise a little to get to the flop and he calls and follows. The flop comes, A-4-3. Your opponent raises! Put click here in this position. Your opponent has just lead out on the flop when an ace drops.

Beware of going all-in with a short stack of chips. You are far more likely to get called by a big stack because if you lose, you will be out of the tournament. You need to have an almost unbeatable hand in these circumstances.

You will eventually get it right more times then you think. "He has a pair of queens" or "I think he is drawing for a straight" are examples of what your internal chatter should sound like.

If you're at a group of inexperienced no limit Texas hold em players, you can usually stack quite a few chips by picking out the player who acts as if he has a big hand, and bets over the top of everyone else. More often than not, this fish has absolutely nothing and is trying his best to buy a pot. He almost never succeeds. I wonder why people like this even play, because they ALWAYS lose if there is anyone that knows halfway what they're doing.

Remember that it is much easier to make an all-in bet than to call one. All you need to do to win the hand is bet when you're sure your opponent will fold.

Some boards are good for c-bets and other boards are horrible. Think about the types of hands your opponents like to call raises with and then ask yourself if the board is friendly or scary to those hands.
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