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Michael Del Toro sent me a message telling me about some video poker tips from Gus Hanson and Gameloft. So if you need a bit of tuition or want to pick up some tips, you can check them out on youtube.com using the links below:
What poker player doesn’t dream of going heads up with Phil Ivey and taking his car, house and money all in one night. However, the harsh reality is that the reason Mr Ivey has so much money is because he is pretty damn good at playing poker.
Right, I’ve been working on this sometime and so I hope you’re really gonna like it… it should certainly make you snicker!
Here are a few examples to get you interested, be sure to visit the actual gallery to see loads more:
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Beware TPTK
Top Pair Top Kicker (“TPTK”) is a great hand, to start with. In certain games, it is enough on its own. But not in low stakes no limit. This can be where the majority of traditional strategies fall down.
Cheap Flops
What you want for your game is to see as many flops as possible where if you hit you can be confident of winning. You also don’t want to invest too much up front in hands that you may be forced to walk away from.
Set or Above
Your aim is to achieve these hands - hands that are the nuts or likely to finish up being the nuts by the river. You are going to be able to make most of your money from these hands. So you are looking at pocket pairs, decent sized connectors or one-gaps, and good suited cards.
Note the qualifications there :
“No Mistakes”
As it says on the tin, the major principle behind this strategy is to do just that – make no mistakes. In a game everyone else is going to be making mistakes left, right and centre. Some mistakes will cost other players money, some mistakes will make them money, but this will only work for them in the short term. Over a large number of hands all mistakes cost money. Your strategy is to capitalise on the biggest of other peoples’ mistakes while making as few of your own as possible. To explain this it is important to distinguish two concepts:
Below is a guide to scraping a living and wining at online Texas Hold’em by playing slow, taking your time to watch the way other players bet, knowing your odds and playing great poker.
Key to poker is the observation of other players:
