When you first begin playing poker or if you are playing at the micro-stakes and low stakes games, it is often best to keep keep things simple. The main reason for this is the vast majority of opponents you will face are only playing their own cards and do not have the necessary skills to understand what you are trying to achieve.

As you move up through the limits you will begin to encounter opponents who are much more skilled and therefore need a different approach if you want to...

One question that crops up all the time on forums and amongst poker players is which form of poker is the most profitable, playing online or in a live environment. The actual answer, like most topics poker related, is not straight forward but there are some major differences you can look at right away.

The first thing you will notice about the two forms of poker is that you have much less information to work with when you play a poker cash game online. In a live cash game you have...

On the surface it looks like tournament poker and cash game poker are one and the same game and although they both play to the same rules, they are both entirely different games altogether. The standard texas hold em strategy you may employ in a cash game simply will not work in a tournament scenario and vice versa.

The main difference between cash games and single table tournaments (STT), that has a major bearing in how they play both preflop and post-flop is the stack sizes. When...

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One of the most difficult decisions to make when you are learning how to play texas hold em poker is when to call it a day, or night, cash in your chips and quit the session. Some players prefer to wait until they have made a specific amount of money, others when they have been playing for a certain amount of time. The best way is to be true to yourself and quit when you feel like it.

There are problems with quitting the game when you have made a certain amount of money. Firstly,...