The community cards or board cards in Texas hold'em play a huge role in the playing of most hands, and they can help you get a read on your opponents hold cards by simply knowing what's the best possible hand on any street is. Then you just simply figure how likely it is your opponent can have that hand, and if not start working backwards for the next possible hand strength, until you find some plausible holdings that can be matched to what your opponent has done in the hand.
Since there have been a lot of new poker shows on television over the last couple of years that hi-light cash game action - and BIG action at that, a lot of players are getting more interested in playing no-limit holdem cash games. And you know what? That is great! There is surely money to be made in these games, but for new players, I still think that playing low buy-in poker tournaments is the way to go, especially for building a bankroll.
New players still often ask me about position and why it is so important. They see it being talked about it in almost every hand, but the subject seems more abstract than concrete to them. This article and video can help that. Once you learn the basics of playing the game of Texas hold'em, one of the first strategies that you will need to comprehend in the game concerns your position in any given hand. After you've played a few hands you'll realize that your relative position at the table changes every hand. That's because the dealer button moves one position clockwise around the table in order to have a fair distribution of players at the table paying blinds.
I got a hand from a subscriber who was in this $10 multi-table poker tournament. He wanted to know if he could get away from the hand, which was in the late stages and looks to be 3 or 4 tables left. So it was getting close to the final table and some big money. This is how he described it:
Posted in the TournamentIndicatorFourm> So it’s Sunday morning I’m sitting in the library (bathroom) reading a couple of pages of a Christmas present I got from my wife “The Theory of Poker” by David Sklansky. To say this book is dry is like saying the Sahara Desert is wet. Anyway I come across the Fundamental Theorem of Poker in Chapter 3.
I am quitting online poker and becoming a salesperson in an upscale womens shoe store.
After a month of relentless, horrendous, and simply preposterous beats in online poker tournaments at Full Tilt, I have decided to take up a new career.