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Chapter 1: How to Play Poker
Plotting a strategy
If your goals
are
to play winning poker you need a plan of attack in order to
become successful and to build a knowledge base to learn the game.
While your experiences at the table will benefit you, the
majority of todays top level poker players have solid
grounding and background in poker theory as well as their
over-the-table experiences. You can find a shedload of information
and help to help you learn the game and become successful.
Discipline
Even though
you may have your strategies all worked out, this
strategic knowledge does not guarantee success
and is not the be all and end all to any poker player. Personal
traits, boundaries and characteristics are equally
important. To be successful you must test your
character, and demand a certain quality in addition to strategic know-how.
Take for example, players who do not have the strict self
discipline to play poker sucessfully, struggle to be
consistant, regardless of how strategically sophisticated
they might be. If you fail to have the discipline to discard
non winning starting hands and fold, then all the knowledge
in the world can't overcome this basic human flaw.
In order to become successful and utilise other strengths,
as a player you must discipline yourself with the cards you
are dealt. One of the the keys to playing poker on online
betting is using discipline when using your own money to
make a bet.
You can learn to play poker at a
level akin to that of a journeyman office worker, a
professional singer, and you will be good enough to win
consistently at the tables. It is very possible to earn good
money without being at the top of the poker leagues, and you
don't have to be world champion.
Of course, he skills of a good poker player
Some players do just that, play poker as a living, and they
are very good at it. If you eventually become the very best poker player you can be, that should be
more than enough to ensure that you will be a winner at the
tables, and give yourself a regular poker income.
The Object of the Game
The
basic objective of poker is to win other people's hard
earned cash by capturing their chips or the 'pot',
which contains the different wagers made by the various players (your
competition) during the hand being played. A player wagers a bet in hopes that he has the best hand, or
to bluff his opponents into thinking that he is in a strong
position at the table. Hopefully, this will cause other
players to fold early and not risk any potential (they
think) loss.
The money that you save is just as important the as the money
you win, knowing
when to release a hand that appears to be beaten is just as
important as knowing when to bet. In the majority of poker
games, the
top combination of five cards is the best hand.
Number of players
Any number of
players can player in a poker game, but this typically
ranges from two players to around a maximum of ten players, depending on
the game that is played. Most casino games are set up with eight players
for a seven card poker game like Seven Card Stud poker, and
normally nine or
ten players for a game of Poker Omaha.
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