Texas Holdem
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|---|---|---|---|
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| Ultimate Bet | $1100 | Review | |
| Casino Euro Poker | €111 | Review | |
| Pacific Poker | $400 | Review | |
| Full Tilt Poker | $600 | Review | |
| Red Kings | $2500 | Review | |
| Carbon Poker | $600 | Review |
Strategy: Playing Against a Maniac
Playing poker will bring you up against an infinite amount of different personalities.
Watch poker on TV, and the advanced levels of play make it much harder to confine a player to any particular category. Because of their experience, poker players compete at roughly the same level and play their hands by calculating their actual odds of winning the pot.
Even professional players that have a distinct manner of play are competent enough to mask or bluff their styles. To a degree, most professional players seem very similar when watching them in action.
Strategy: Playing Suited Connectors
If you’ve reached the stage where you’ve become a reasonably competent poker player that’s moved to a more intermediate table with a higher buy-in for tournament style games or a high blind level for the round table variety, the chances are that you’ll be playing the game in tight but aggressive style.
Obviously, this style is maximised when holding two strong cards in the ‘hole’ which will determine your level of aggression both before and after the flop.
Playing a tight, aggressive style can be a strong enough strategy to win games against lower level intermediate players but to really maximise your chances, it pays to learn how to increase the range of your hole cards to significantly improve your game further.