Well, i would like to think that.So lets formally introduce you to my guide on how to play poker and let start. Everyone has their own reason to become really good at poker.

You want to beat your home games consistently
You’ve been playing for a while but you haven’t won any
You’ve been to a casino and had your butt kicked
You just want to improve your game because you want to become a professional poker player.

Playing for hours will no doubt improve your chances of winning.Besides,practice makes perfect.But just like you who is willing to be better at poker chances are your opponents (in the form of friends, uncles and aunts, and casino) are also improving their play.Playing out in the open and putting your hard-earned money on the poker table can be devastating if you don’t have a plan.I hope this poker player’s guide will help you improve your poker mindset. A fair warning though: this guide is not etched in stone.It serves as a reference on how you should conduct yourself and your game as you go along and win big at poker matches. This guide is not a substitute to the real game. Instead, treat it as some form of reinforcement.

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You can play poker the way those people play but it will take time for you to learn from your mistakes and efficiently correct them. When you read, you’re investing.When you read, you acquire knowledge. And once you have that knowledge, it can never be taken away from you.Reading this guide will help you cut those impending mistakes and let you see different angles of the game.If you use your hard knocks experience coupled by poker analytics you’ll be on the right track.This poker player’s guide will explain the basic rulesof No-Limit Taxes Hold'Em, give a few tips on strategy, and get you started with how you can manage ur bankroll.

Poker Basics

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Think of it this way – you’re like laying the foundation of a building.Without it, the building will crumble.Before you can start putting on ornaments, you need to make sure that your base/foundation is solid to cover and protect the pillars and weight of your building.Once all the structural elements are in order then you can experiment on how you’d like to design and improve your game.Thus, the basic rules of poker and the core game play are important to help youdevelop a strong game plan each time you play.

Poker is number one card game on the planet and everyone seems to enjoy it.You play it with your buddies, your co-workers, your Aunt Mary, and just about with anybody. It’s fun and you can talk about so many things while playing the game.You could be telling inside stories among your own circle and continue playing poker for hours until the sun rises.Others play poker to earn some money.Some, the pros, play poker to earn a living.Nothing can be more motivating than winning loads of cash while enjoying a recreational sport you love. If you put the two together, you’ll have a mix of experience that could make you smarter and wealthier at the same time.Poker is a mind game at best.It hones your strategic side and lets you deal with situational dilemmas that you need to immediately address.If you’ve been in a heads-up scenario, you know you have to deal with it head-on.No turning back.No backing down.

Poker Game Dynamics

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Each player is dealt with two hole cards faced down.If you’re in the hand it means that you’re still at play with your hole cards and you should be the only person to know what hand you’re holding.The action in the game starts with preliminary betting pre-flop with the player under the gun (the player right after the Big Blind) to act first.The action is clockwise with the succeeding players taking turns. Each time a round of cards is dealt, players have an opportunity to check, bet, fold, call, or raise.Any time a player decides to forfeit his interest in the pot, he may release his hand when it is his turn to act (to do something related to betting: raise, fold, check, or call).When a player folds a hand, he is not required to place any more money in the pot.If a player bets or raises and no one calls, the pot belongs to that player, the cards are collected and shuffled, and the next hand is dealt.If there are two or more players still active at the end of the hand, the best hand wins the pot.In game theory parlance, poker is a fixed game with zero-sum results.That means it has its own structure with only one winner at the end of the game. In some tournaments, especially those that take longer hours to finish, players would agree to split the pot among themselves and call it a day.At other times, they would continue with the attrition until two players remain standing, and these two players will play '' heads-up'' until one is declared a champion.

How Do You Win A Hand In Poker?

You can win a hand in poker in two ways.The first is when one or more players reveal and compare the best hand after the betting rounds are done up to the last community card is dealt (the River).This means that two or more players are still in the game after all the betting rounds, but they have to show their hole cards faced up for comparison to determine who has the best hand.The second way of winning a hand in poker is when all your opponents folded their hands after your action.It means that no one at the poker table gives up his claim for the pot that is being contested.

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There are three things to consider when you’ve decided to play poker seriously: strategy, psychology, and bankroll management.In this section, we’ll discuss the first two and deal with bankroll management extensively in the next section.

Strategy: The Mathematics Of Poker

Don’t be overwhelmed when we say math is needed in poker.Strangely enough, most people we spoke to about poker math would brush the idea aside and say, “what for?” or “I’ve been playing poker all my life and I don’t need no math!”For the uninitiated, or those who play poker for recreactional purposes, poker is just about luck or sweet destiny.If you’re taking poker seriously, you can’t rely on luck and i promise you that you’ll be destined to something not sweet – financial ruin.Poker as a game or sport can be analyzed from the prism of game theory and decision science.All i ask is a little patience so that you can understand why and how probability plays a role at the poker table.

Probability is about estimates.That’s the math involved in poker.There’s too much asymmetric information involved (you don’t know what going to happen next) and the best you can do is estimate what is the most like card to come up.Win or lose, variance plays a major role in the outcome of any poker game.Variance refers to the number of times a particular hand in poker is most likely to win.For example, if you’re holding pocket Aces, how many times do you think it’d win during a heads-up match?Your estimates may not be accurate but having a foundation and understanding why things work the way they do helps you not ending up in a mental institution.If you play the game too long, poker math becomes second nature and you’ll start to breathe estimates.You can’t predict your opponent’s cards 100 percent of the time, but you’ll have aninclination what hole cards they’re holding.In poker, this is a big deal.

The Psychology Ingredient: Discipline + Plans + Composure

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Playing serious poker requires mountains of discipline and solid plans.Whether you like it or not, just like in any field or profession, you need truckloads of discipline at poker to achieve a certain degree of mastery over the game.Im not saying you can master poker. Nobody can master the game.But you can achieve a level of excellence if you’re disciplined with the right set of plans as you soldier on in your quest for poker greatness.Besides the crucial number of hours you need to play, an excellent poker player lays out a plan just like a war general who prepares for war.Planning is not just a list of what and what not to do.It involves strategy and tactics.Strategy is your long-term approach to the game, while tactics are the tiny details of your game during small skirmishes.You need tenacity and a strong core to execute both to the fullest.You’ll reap benefits if you treat poker this way. It may be true that you’ll lose a number of games along the way, but in the long run you’ll be a winning poker player.

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You’re probably thinking, “This is getting ‘too’ serious for my taste.”To convince you further, will you invest in something, maybe a car or a house in suburbia, without considering how much you have in the bank?What if you’re running a business? Would you continue operating if you don’t have financial records how your business is doing?In this section, we’ll discuss what bankroll management is and how to have good recordkeeping.

Bankroll Management

According to the poker dictionary Poker Dictionary, bankroll management is a series of guidelines designed to help safeguard a bankroll from tilt, variance, and bad play.In ring games, coin flips can occur where we have only a slight edge in a hand when all the money goes in.Occasionally we will lose these flips and need to have a large enough bankroll to support these losses so that we can continue to get our money in with small edges as well as big ones.There are two ways of looking at bankroll management: upside bankroll management and downside management.1. The upside bankroll management approach or “Quit While You’re Ahead” advises you to quit while you’re still ahead in the game.If you went to a casino and played No-Limit Hold ‘Em with an initial bankroll of $1,000 and after five hours of playing you already have $7,000 in chip stacks, the upside approach suggests that you take your money and leave the table.It gives you $6,000 dollars-worth of winning with only $1,000 as initial investment.The idea is to decide how much is your target winnings for a number of hours of play (or days or weeks). If you meet that target, this approach is inclined to drag you off your seat and run with your winnings.You call it a night.I remember when I was first starting out as a poker player I lost a month’s-worth of salary and had to win them all back for two months.I went every night to my local card club and set a target amount for four hours of play. When I hit that amount, regardless if the swings and odds were to my favor, I leave.1. The downside bankroll management approach or “Give it Up and Go Home”, on the other hand, suggests a stop-gap approach to how you should manage your bankroll when your hands are folding.In this way you can limit the amount you’re most likely to lose if you continue playing with a downswing playing curve.If your bankroll is a maximum of $500 every night and you happen to lose all of it in one hand, the downside approach tells you to leave the poker table even if you have wads of greenbacks in your wallet.The idea is to stave off variance from your skin and come back another day.

Recordkeeping

Recordkeeping is essential for you to know if you’re a successful poker player or not.Without any system of keeping tabs of your daily poker performance, how would you know if you’re winning enough or losing so much money?Businesses and enterprises keep records of their expenses and earnings to ensure their continued economic existence. Without any form of recordkeeping, it becomes impossible for businesses to keep tabs of their costs. The same thing holds true if you want to play serious poker and make a living out of it. I’ve encountered many poker players who don’t keep any record at all. For them, getting enough wins (or hoping to get those big wins) is enough motivation to keep playing.This is not a good strategy at all.I believe players like these are scared to see an awful and hurtful truth that they’ve lost thousands of dollars in the years they’ve played poker.How complicated is keeping a record from your poker games?It’s not really complicated. What we suggest is for you to keep track of two important things: (a) Win Rates and (b) Standard Deviation Short-Term Fluctuations.These two statistical tools are crucial to determine if you’re on the winning side of playing poker.

Tips On How To Keep A Record

It sounds ridiculous but we do suggest that you carry a small notebook with you the next time you play poker.If you find it crazy, use your smart phone or tablet. Use a spread sheet.Relax.You don’t need any computational formula.Poker recordkeeping requires only arithmetic to compute the number of hours you’ve played versus the amount you’ve either won or lost. The secret is to record your hourly performance at the poker table.These are the things that need to appear on your small notebook, smartphone, or tablet computer:

The amount of cash you’ve won or lost in the previous hour
The amount of table blinds you’re playing
The number of hours you’ve played per session

The purpose is to have statistical data of your performance that you can quantify for over long periods.This cumulative data will help you determine if your game has improved or notovertime. You begin with your daily records, then it becomes weekly, then monthly, and then yearly.To compute your win-loss average, you can divide the amount of money you’ve won or lost by the number or play time you’ve spent.This approach will help you arrive at an average of winnings and losses per hour of play.If you can achieve a win rate with less investment then you’re better off playing poker.

For My Last Words, Remember To:

Sharpen your game by learning poker math
Learn to control your emotions and reactions both near and away the poker table
Read more books, websites and whatever poker literature you can get your hands on
Watch and mimic how the pros play
LEARN BANKROLL MANAGEMENT and be diligent with your RECORDKEEPING.

Thank you

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KatUshka @pokertravel