Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Getting Better at Poker

By PokerMan Dan

If you like to play poker and you play a lot of it then you must always be on the lookout for ways that you can make you make better. Knowing pot odds, reading books, going through online tutorials, and there are far more tools out there that can be used for improving your poker game. Playing in as many live games as possible and playing as many hands as you can, can be a good way to get better at playing poker. The more you play the better you will understand that game of poker.

When developing your poker game you must try to develop a game that is going to be feared and respected by other players. To do this you will need to develop a poker education that is rivaled by none. To start this education go to your local libraries or book stores and grab as many poker books as you can and read them all from cover to cover. There are a multitude of professional poker players who write books that will lay out the exact strategies that they use to consistently win at poker. Learn what they do and try to incorporate it into your game.

Next, when trying to improve on your poker skills try employing many different strategies in live play. While in the short term this may end up in a loss of money, in the long run you will end up making that back and so much more. Exploring many different aspects of poker is of vital importance as not every person can or should play poker the same way. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and those must be discovered.

Another thing that can be used while in the process of learning that game of poker is the tutorial. These tutorials are found all over the internet and a lot of them are available for free. Using tutorials is a good way to be interactive while learning the game and is unlike a book where you just read, so it can help with the boredom factor.

Knowing the odds of each hand in poker is one of the most overlooked and most important aspects of the poker game. Some poker players like to have a pot odds calculator running while playing online poker. While this is impossible to use at a live game using one of these calculators while playing online may help you in your memorization of the odds of each hand and in turn should help you to maximize your profits while playing both the online version of the game and playing live.

The last recommendation is that from now on when you are watching poker on the television is to watch the way that the other pros talk, don't talk, study, and try to discern the other players at the table. The really good professional poker players take time to study and try to figure out what their opponent may be thinking. The great pros will do their best to glean as much information off of their opponents as possible.

About the Author: