Poker tips - strategy guide

Poker is a game in which skill and knowledge win. The most informed player at the table is always ahead of his opponents. By reading articles from this list you will get informed.

Fundamental poker concepts and strategies

Texas hold'em, like all poker games, is about risk and reward. Every decision you make will have some effect on your result. The articles you find below are written with Texas hold'em as primary focus, but the most stuff is universal to most poker games.

Used terms and abbreviations

You may come across terms like stack, blinds and all in etcetera in these articles. If you are unsure of the meaning of a certian word, see the reference of poker terms. See also the reference of Poker abbreviations.

Odds & outs

Poker psychology

After you have learned about strategies and odds, you still lack in a very critical side of the game – the psychological. To be a consistent winner in poker you must be mentally strong.

Money management

Money management is how to handle your bankroll. For example how to choose the right limit. It’s not quite so easy to know how this shall be done.

Omaha and Seven card stud

Poker tips for other poker games.

Poker online

Here are some articles about playing poker online. How you start playing and some words about subjects like rake and freerolls. Go to Poker Online main section.

Introduction to poker strategy

This poker guide doesn't promise you miracles like "make thousands of dollars every month". Such things can never be promised in the game of poker (hardly in other fields either), but one thing can be said for sure: the player that accomplishes the following four criteria will be a winning poker player ...

1. Knowledge
2. Experience
3. Continuity
4. Self-control

It's that simple, but at the same time very hard to fulfil. Knowledge is information about strategies and odds. Experience is something you gain by playing. According to the poker legend Doyle Brunson the latter is far more important: "Knowing what to do - the science - is about 10% of the game. Knowing how to do it - the art - is the other 90%".

Continuity is to follow a plan and not play in a restless manner; this subject is closed associated with money management. Self-control finally, is about what the word saying: never lose control when the cards turn against you. How to manage self-control will be explained in the section about psychology.

What the tips in this poker guide cannot do is give you experience at the table. Neither can it give you any guarantees that you will be able to keep sufficient continuity or be able to practice self-control all the time. Nevertheless, some tips about how you could be better in these areas are included.

If you study and learn the instructions that will follow, you should be able to play better poker than the big majority of the players you are going to face on poker tables online and in other places.

Exactly how smart your money is going to be on the green tables depends ultimately on how you practice your strategical knowledge, your money management insights and your understanding of the psychological aspects.

On this page you can see all the articles in this strategy guide. The recommendation is to start with the article on Basic poker strategy and whem continue among the listed articles.