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There are many different styles in Texas Holdem poker and this can form a problem for players who are looking to learn the game. Also there are many people writing about poker who are not completely down the evolutionary road with regards their own education. This presents another problem because you often read information that is not completely accurate. Unfortunately this cannot be avoided as there are no laws or guidelines that dictate who can write about poker. There are no formal rules and so you do not need to be a strong player to be able to write about poker. Read more…

What exactly do we mean when we say that Online Texas Holdem poker is not a zero sum game? Well firstly a zero sum game is one where the sum total of all of the people who win or gain is equalled by the sum total of all of the losers. Hence this is where the name comes from as the total winners minus the total losers equals zero. If we played in a home poker game that didn’t take any expenses or rake then this would be a zero sum game. If we had six players and two players won $1400 and $710 respectively then the four remaining players must have lost a total of $2110. Read more…

A lot of people say how no-limit Texas Hold’em is the ultimate form of poker. Well I for one am not overly sure about that for several reasons. Over the past few years then the new breed of online poker player has basically solved limit hold’em at the higher levels. This means that the high stakes limit games are very rare on the ground now. One would say that this means that the game is easier to break down. This is probably true to an extent as many of the decisions in limit are far easier than they would be in no-limit given the same hand example. Read more…

I recently watched a NL100 Texas Hold em game where the following hand played out like this. The game was full-ring and several players had limped into the pot for the $1 and it was folded around to our hero who raised to $6.50. As it turned out he had the Js-Jc which is a reasonable play from that position. I definitely think that you can mix raises with limps here and my ratio would slightly favour the raises although it would be close. Read more…

These days there are many players who are trying their very best to play higher stakes levels and be good players at those levels. But yet it is clear that this presents a very serious problem. Let us look at ten different levels of poker and instead of giving them dollar levels we will give them numbers instead. So instead of calling them $1-$2 and $20-$40 we will simply call them 1 to 10. Read more…