When it comes to hand reading and adjusting to other players the truth is that learning timing tales and

betting patterns are much more reliable ways to figure out what your opponents are doing. For
example, you might notice that an opponent bets small with strong hands and bets big one bluffing. This
type of information is invaluable and should be documented through good note taking while you play.
Here are a few other tales to look out for, like taking a long time to act and then betting bigger raising.
When you see this happen, look out because this is almost always a strong hand. When you see
somebody taking a long time to act and then checking, usually this means the player has a marginal
hand or draw and does not want anybody to bet. So they're taking a long time to have in order to try
and sell that they're strong.

Next trick in playing poker is buying in for an odd amount. If you see someone buying for something like
$39 and 26 cents, it is likely going to be their entire bank roll. And they just came here to gamble it up.

Next that you have to keen of is when players are openly complaining about how others play. Now these
are usually mediocre players who have maybe they've read a book or two. These chronic complainers
think that they already know how to play perfect poker. So make sure you take note of the things they
say and you will learn exactly how they play hands and you can use that to your advantage.

If you have been serious in playing poker, you are probably the type that understands the value of study
and becoming good at anything in poker. Constantly improving and working to eliminate your leaks is
imperative to success. I have found that the best way to do this is to compartmentalize the game in a
smaller, more manageable elements. Rather than trying to work on it everything at once, it's best to
focus on one thing at a time. To use chess is that analogy. There are two games always being played at
the table. There is the fairly rigid, overriding strategic game, which is based on tried and true
fundamentals that have been proven to lead to winning, then there's detective, which is more dynamic
and executes the players plans within the bounds of the overall strategy. In other words, understanding
how money is made and lost leads us to a strategy, which in turn gives us insight on ways to form a
profitable game plan or tactics.

In short, the best way to improve is to first study and learn the advanced fundamentals of poker, and
then use a simple tactical game at first, then as you gain experience, you can incrementally add more
advanced plays to your game. For example, you might work on mastering the most common elements of
the game first, like open raising ranges, that’s sizing see bedding all that stuff. Then later on focus more
intensely on the more complicated elements of the game like three bedding for bedding, flattening, you
know that type of thing.

To aid in your study, there are a few software programs that I recommend that you look into. First off,
there's poker tracking software. There really is no way around. And nowadays, in order to effectively
analyze other players and your own results, every serious player must have.

My favorite of all time is you also must have an equity calculator of some sort. Equity calculators allow
you to compare the equity of various hands or ranges, becoming debt and recognizing what your likely
equity is at any given moment is an important success. And when we talk about that we basically just
told me about is what is your chance of winning the hand by the river At any given stage and a hand that
your next you want to look into hand analysis software. Now This is a little bit advanced. But if you're
like me, and a real poker nerd that you want to invest in hand analysis software such as card runners TV.
This program allows you to do dynamic multi street equity and EV calculations both pre flop and post
flop. I've probably spent, I don't even know 500 hours or longer on this software, perfecting different
elements of my game. It's that good.

Now for you online players, You'll want some kind of table management software. It's really helpful to
automate your table layout as well as many of your actions while you play poker. That way you can
focus more on playing and less on setting up your sessions. To play tight means to play very few hands of
wait for so called strong hands to get involved. Well, this will certainly make a losing player lose money
slower, You will really do nothing to help you become a winning player in today's games. yet. Still, you
will hear this terrible phrase thrown around every once in a while the tide is right.

My advice is to ignore this misleading tip and pretty much any other poker cliche that you hear. A lot of
them are based on Poker 30 years ago and have not much relevance for today. Instead, I recommend
that you learn to understand that winning poker is about playing a style of game that best fits the table
dynamic. So in order to use this information, you usually want to play a style that is the opposite of the
other players at the table. The key to doing this is once you figure out what they're doing, you profile
them and then take good notes on them and then you can use that information against them in the
future. So for example, in general, when playing on a table with loose opponents, you want to follow a
fairly straightforward and somewhat tight strategy. Because this allows you to often dominate their
weak ranges and gain value when they overcommit with marginal hands. The idea is to play mistake free
poker and make your money from the errors of the other players.

On the other hand, if your opponents are very tight, You want to do the opposite and play very loose in
order to capitalize. This usually takes the form of a robust stealing strategy which wins by fighting
aggressively for the blinds while your opponents are sitting around waiting for strong hands. Boat equity
is one of the most powerful concepts to understand in poker. Basically, it is the amount of money you
win through aggressive actions such as betting or raising. The best thing is it does not require you to
show it on your cards. If you Never better raise and you're missing out on a lot of profit due to hold
equity. In fact, based on the money one through fold equity. Anytime you are contemplating an action in
poker, you should always consider the aggressive play first. Only if the aggressive plays not profitable,
should you even consider a passive play like checking or calling. As a rule. If the aggressive plays
profitable, than it is almost always the best play. It's just like most other games, you have to develop a
killer instinct in order to thrive.

I'm sure you've heard that adjusting to opponents is one of the most important skills to develop as a
poker player. In fact, we just talked about this just a minute ago And number five, Even so before you
can adjust, You have to have a baseline from which to adjust from. I call this a vacuum strategy, which
basically just means how you play when you have absolutely no information. for new players. The best
way to get started developing your own Texas Hold'em strategy is to begin with a very basic game plan.
Then as you gain experience, start adding on more and more advanced concepts as you go. within no
time you will be exploiting your opponents like a professional.

Poker is a hard game. The fact that there's so much misleading and downright bad information out there
makes becoming a winning player more difficult than ever. The goal of the seven beginner poker tips
was to help beginners and intermediate players get a head start by learning the things that all top pros
know.

One last bonus piece of advice that I will give you is not to take yourself too seriously. Poker is full of
players already who think that they are God's gift to poker. That type of know it all attitude is the road
under achievement in the game. faster you can take the ego out, The quicker you can get busy
improving and calming the competition.

By the way, I wrote an article on this very subject, both 16 Bible poker tips every beginner should know.
So if you're interested in more ways to get on track toward crushing the competition, go check it out at
automatic poker.com forward slash tips or just click on the link in the description. Thanks everybody for
watching. Have a great day.