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Playing Big Stacks in Poker Tournaments

Having a big stack in a poker tournament is not the solution to your problems, despite the confidence that it (quite naturally) fills you with. When you get a larger stack, your playing style needs to change accordingly and move from being a tight aggressive player to working with more hands and loosening up your game. Then, later in the tournament, your stack is the single best asset you have.

Early On: Looser Calls, Play Aggressive

To keep your lead in a no limit tournament (or, indeed, any tournament,) you have to keep putting more chips in your bankroll. If you've established a lead early on in the tournament (and indeed, as you are playing in the middle stages), don't be afraid to start making make looser calls from the flop, limping in hoping to hit a nut hand. Later in the tournament, you may leave hands like 67 or 78 to the side, but if you can afford to gamble a bit with your chips and be more aggressive, don't be timid.
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Fixed Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Poker

Omaha Hi-Lo poker is definitely a game I recommend starting off in fixed-limit games, even if you're an experienced Omaha Hi player looking to expand their game a bit. There's a whole different style of play that you'll need to adjust to and these pointers can help you get ready once you've learned the basic rules for Omaha hi lo poker.

Position, Position, Position

As with any poker game, playing too many hands from early position ends up costing many players money in fixed limit Omaha hi-lo poker games. By choosing to play from late position, you have the advantage of seeing your opponents act before you need to make a decision. If several opponents raise ahead of you, then you'll know that that marginal hand you're holding isn't worth the effort. However, if your opponents appear weak then a timely bet in a late position can win the pot. Proper position-oriented play ensures that you lose less money when behind in a hand and get to build and take in a big pot when ahead. Read more…

Texas v Omaha Hold’Em – Which one?

There are so many forms of the game that it can be tricky choosing exactly what to do particularly when you want to play poker online for real money. Considering two of the most popular versions of poker, should you choose Texas Hold’Em or Omaha Hold’Em?
Of course, the basic game is the same in both versions – Build the best five-card hand that you can and hope to beat your opponents. The major difference is that in Texas Hold’Em, often known as just plain Hold’em, you can choose any five cards from your hand and the community boards. In Omaha Hold’em, which is generally known as just plain Omaha, two cards must come from your hand. As a result, the potential card combinations are far greater with Texas Hold’Em.
The result of this is significant. For a start, in Omaha you either have the best hand or you don’t, there is not as much room for movement. So trying to deceive your opponent when you have low scoring cards is not usually as effective as it is when you play Hold’Em. The flexibility of Hold’Em also means that there tends to be more action in the game than there is with Omaha. This may impact your enjoyment of the game.
Omaha tends to be more of a tactical game and so where Hold’Em players tend to raise and re-raise, this can be problematic when playing Omaha. Another factor to consider is that Hold’Em is a quicker game, so when you play online you will get more action.

Winning Small Stakes Games

Pretty much every online poker player starts at the low-stakes tables when they decide to move into real-money games, and the reasons are pretty obvious. A lot of players will tell you that low-stakes games aren't profitable, but that's generally because low-stakes players find themselves in on way more hands than the should be. It's possible and in fact practical to play low-stakes poker for profit if you are comfortable with a longer, slower burn at the table with less action. Think Tight Aggressive and crank it up to about 10% past your usual play.

Preflop Strategies

As with any hold ‘em game, position plays a huge factor in low-stakes online poker games. Early position preflop players want to restrict their play to only the absolute best hands: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AQ and AK. Limp in with a pocket pair of TT or lower and AJ is always more tempting than it should be. You're better off folding everything else when playing from the blinds or immediately after.
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WPT for the PSP

Released a few years ago, World Poker Tour for the Sony PSP is actually the best portable poker game made so far and some would argue that it's a better way to play the game than anything shy of a dedicated online poker room or live tournament.

The game's solid structure and realistic experience has been praised by reviewers and poker players alike and the artificial intelligence used makes decisions more than merely calling or folding based on patterns you've seen.

The experience starts early, when you create your character.
While you can base it on yourself (and I did, my first time through,) it actually adds a level of fun to the game when you go all-out with your designs, in particular the clothing and accessories that are supplied by a seemingly endless virtual wardrobe. Read more…