Texas Holdem

When starting with online poker there are couple things beginners must know besides strategy. The most important of them being rakeback. Not much beginners know any phrase besides „poker“ and „texas holdem“ when they start playing. Rakeback is important because it gives back a percentage of the fees that the player pays to the online poker room for arranging the games. This way you can maximize your profits or breakeven when you have a bad month.

Most people start with Texas Holdem because it is believed to be the most simple variation of poker. That is not true. Texas Holdem is something that has a lot of aspects which need to be learned. One of them is knowing how to use your position.

In Limit poker games you might face a raise which might seem small as it is only one bet and calling it is no catastrophy. In No Limit poker the raise can be multiple bets. Drawing hands and small pairs have to be folded in that case and you los eyour bet. This is the reason why in passive games these hands are only good in a late position.

Connected and cards of same suit need at least four or more players in a non raised pot to be profitable. You are only playing them to flop a straight, a flush or a draw. You flop a flush, straight two pairs or a set only once every seventeen times. Flush draw or a straight draw comes once every five times and when you have holed cards, like 9s-7s, then the straight draw hits you once every six times. In addition you need to check that the game would not be too aggressive. In an aggressive game even if everyone calls preflop then it might be hard to get the correct pot odds for calling with a draw on the flop.

In an early position you should play only premium hands, like AA, KK, QQ, AK and maybe JJ and AQ. Raising in an early position means that you have to have a hand which can withstand a re-raise.

With a pair of aces you win 80% of times against one player, 66% of times against two players, only 50% against four players and it only gets worse with more people in the pot. Normally by raising you get into a heads-up situation, pot is the same as with 4 limpers due to the raise. The standard raise in cash games is usually three or four times the big blind. This gets out the drawing hands but you still get some callers.

Lets go over the important things briefly. Definitely look for Noxwin Rakeback or even 888 Poker Rakeback as they are the easiest places where to start. Consider your position, always! Player only premium hands in the earlier positions and loosen up as your position moves towards the button. Do not go crazy! Try to make sense of your decisions and analyze them. Why did i do that? Why did i do it at that moment? And so on. Learn, adapt and win!