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Linda Maze, a Wedding photography Gainesville FL in Gainesville Florida

Even if you are only playing free online poker for fun it is, on principle very bad to hold your cards until the river to just see that you are losing. Plenty of poker players seem to like this kind of risky play, they like to be the wild man player and stick it out to the bitter end even on hands where they know there’s maybe only a 5% chance of winning! And if you are risking real money and not playing free poker games then it is a habit to get out of right now.

You may play that way though; however, mark out a list of approaches and procedures and then gamble based on why you are making the next move. Start to play like this all the time and you will be cured!

If you can’t stop being a wild poker player, you definitely won’t be capable of identify when you’re holding a winning hand until later than the last bets are put and the poker chips are decided.

If your aim is to become a master poker player and succeed in every possible situation which can probably arise during play you’ve got to be a systematic player and not a wild player.

Before you take any action when you play poker online think about these questions:

1) What are the probable best hands you can make with your cards?

2) What hands held can probably be superior than yours?

3) Is there a possibility of the other players cards being better than yours?

4) Can you bluff the best player to fold?

There may be situations where the five cards opened in the center of the table are all of the same suit. If so then it is clear that some one may well be holding a flush. You need to be alert to this and try to identify them.

Yet another situation is where the center five cards form a sequence of numbers with one missing number. For example, let the center five cards be 3,4,6,7,K. Clearly if another player has a 5 then they’ve made a Straight. You may have the highest pair or even two pair but, you need to be aware that it is highly probable that someone at the table is going to have a straight.

Recently I took a nasty loss at a table. The cards in the center were, 3,5,3,6,5 giving me a flush as two of my cards were diamond and three out of the five center cards were also diamond. Thinking that the Flush was very high hand I bet all my chips. But, my opponent had a full house with his hand 3,9 which gave him a 33355 full house. So we need to think consider what all are the best hands that could be made from a given set of five center cards are and if yours is not the best then be careful.

When you learn to play poker in this sort of systematic way you will absolutely, without a doubt, win a lot more poker. This does require practice of course, so if you are starting out or need to relearn then play free poker and practice first, decent free poker sites will have good how to play poker for beginners lessons and are a great way to learn the basics or get rid of bad habits with little or no loss before trying with real money.

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Linda Maze, a Wedding photography Gainesville FL in Gainesville Florida

At all levels of poker, even in free poker online you can find good cunning players who are able to change gears all through the tournament. At the same time they’re also very good at spotting changes in behaviour in other players. So as well as playing unpredictably themselves they can also spot unpredictable play by others and either set counter traps or just use the knowledge to avoid getting knocked out by ambushes.

In this free poker article we’ll go through a good example of this sort of play where the players “suspicion itch” avoided a costly experience at the hands of another cunning player.

BLINDS 3k/6k

PREFLOP:

A has As-Jd and raises to 16k

This is often a standard raise from early position. But notice B’s audacious, but well-timed reraise:

B has Ac-7s and reraises to 45k

B might be planning to pull any joiners to the Flop in order to try a big continuation bet (AKA C-bet) should other players check at the Flop. By reraising he also deters others from coming in which makes the C-bet more effective. In this example though the reraise was not enough for C:

C has 10d-10c from BB and calls 39k (Pot 117k)

At thus stage A might imagine that B had something such as A-K. Also, B has position over A, so A folds.

FLOP: 10s-4c-Qh

C bets 30k

C, who has a Set, now bets very small! This is kind of odd as Sets should be played strong here since there is a high probability of a Straight draw on the Table (a KJ or AK will be good enough to justify calling a 30k bet on a 117k pot). C is probably hoping that B will figure this to be a C-bet, a bluff, and, considering B was aggressive preflop he hopes B will keep on with the aggressive stance by raising. This will produce a good spot for C to move all-in at.

Now if B thought that C did a continuation bet, he then should respond by raising. However, at a 117,000 pot, how big should a continuation bet be? Half the pot? Equal to the size of the pot? Is a small bet a C-bet? (Looks suspicious).

B is now able to think, rightly, that C had a strong hand when he called B’s preflop reraise (another suspicion), after which C strengthened his hand during the flop, and so is value- betting (third suspicion!).

B cannot raise this (if he did C will push all-in); also, B cannot call this for he’s got Ace-rag which is nothing, and so B folds. Good use of a suspicious activity detector ability!

And so there ends the lesson, maybe not so much a how to play poker for beginners one as it is a bit in depth but if you’re more experienced I’m hoping this resonates with you. To get more practice and learn better the right way to spot suspect actions but without risking money it is a great idea to play free poker tournaments at quality free online poker sites sites before you risk cash on your hunches.