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Top 5 Tips On How to Play Better Poker - Forum Admin - 02-23-2025
Top 5 Tips On How to Play Better Poker
Learning to play poker is not all about knowing the rules and when it’s your turn to act.
Poker is a highly complex game; there is much to learn before you can call yourself a real poker player.
To that end, we have prepared some quick tips to teach you how to play poker better by applying comprehensive and straightforward terms. These tips can be expanded on, but these are the concepts you should remember the next time you play poker.
Be Selective with Your Starting Hands
One of the biggest mistakes new players make in poker is playing too many hands. Sure enough, every starting hand can make a monster hand, but you should look to play hands that give you an edge from the get-go.
While you are learning how to play poker, we recommend playing relatively tight and only entering a hand if you have a perfect starting hand.
This will give you an advantage in the hand from the start and make things much simpler on each betting street, which is the way you want to approach poker as a newbie.
There are many ways to expand your starting hands as you learn to play poker better, but stick with the “tight is right” saying for now, and you should do well.
Be Mindful of Your Position
The position is critical in poker, especially in no-limit, where opponents can make big bets and put you to the test on every betting street.
Therefore, it is best to be very selective with how you approach playing in early positions and the blinds, while you can let loose a little bit on the button or the cutoff.
Late positions give you the advantage of manipulating the pot on later betting streets to play a slightly wider range of hands from these positions.
Try not to play too many hands from early positions, and especially avoid calling re-raises with weak or marginal hands if you will be out of position against the aggressor.
Be the Aggressor
This leads us to the next important point related to aggression. In poker, you almost always want to be the one dishing out the aggression, not the one defending from it.
Whenever you make a bet or a raise, there is at least some chance that your opponent will fold their cards, and the hand will end right then and there.
You will never win immediately when you check or call a bet, so the aggressive player usually has the advantage.
There is something to be said about trapping overly aggressive players, but being tight and aggressive is generally the best approach in poker.
Balance is Important
When you play poker, your opponents watch how you play and make mental notes. Unless you are playing against evil opponents, they will notice some tendencies in your play.
Therefore, balancing betting for value and betting as a bluff is essential.
When you first start playing poker, I recommend limiting your bluffing, but you still need to do it at least once in a while.
Remember to play your strong-drawing hands as flush draws and open-ended straight draws aggressively like you would if you had two pairs or a set. This will ensure that you remain unpredictable and keep your opponents guessing.
Fold When You Are Beaten
Sometimes, you face a bet in poker and know you are beaten. When this happens, please stay disciplined and fold your cards.
While there are times when we must make calls with speculative hands, there are other times when it's pretty apparent our opponent has us beat, and calling off bets in such situations is terrible.
Could you ensure you can fold even decent holdings when facing a bet that's never bluff and save your chips for a better spot?
After all, a dollar saved is earned, and every time you correctly fold your cards, you are earning money in the long run.