if you can name just one awesome poker strategy that works for you

what is it?

Properly playing your position on the table and taking advantage of others who don't.

Playing basic strategy, with all the info out and forums to discuss hands.  Most players try to get fancy and most of them have HUDS.  So playing basic and showing off a loose play once in a while works well. 

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what he said

Quit overplaying suited connectors, especially UTG.  Negreanu does it a lot, but he cannot figure out why his game has gone to shit.  In SNGs, do more speculating with flops when blinds are cheap, and tighten up when the blinds go up and the players dwindle. 

Also, as a previous poster stated, do not underestimate the value of position.  And pick up on players tendencies so you know how to maximine your winning pots and mininimize your losing ones. 

 

what he said

ditto this-

To me the one thing is to play boringly good poker and then to find the guys at the table that are good enough to bluff. Most of these jokers at the small limit games will call you down with nothing so you need to have good hands. The key is to pick out the guys who can lay down a hand and thus can be pushed off hands but to have the goods against everyone else. This holds true for all of poker  I guess

Find the players online that think the game is rigged.  the ones that complain and complain about limping into pots and then getting outflopped.  save their name, make a note, and search for them every time you go online.  join their table, and take their money over and over, because they play straight to their cards everytime, thinking that if they start with the best hand, they will win.  they are idiots and go on tilt, and you can clean up.  i have about 30 of them flagged on my account and i rarely play a cash table unless one of them is on it. 

Close my eyes and click the call any button.

Money in the bank

know when to hold'em, and know when to fold'em / know when to walk away, and know when to run ...

Give yourself an hour at the table to learn your opponents and the flow of the game. pick your battles wisely!

 

Also, dont ever count your money when youre sitting at the table, there will be time enough for counting when the dealings done.

 

Now every gambler knows, the secret to survival is knowin what to throw away and knowin what to keep. Cuz every hands a winner, and every hands a loser, and the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

 

and somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even!!!!!!!

i just played in a tourno as conservative as i could, only playing on high pairs if not in the blinds and got to the final table of a satellite and was then beaten on a crazy flush draw

Just play your game. Dont "check dark" cuz you saw Hellmuth do it on TV an you wanna act cool. Dont reraise 67suited in into 3 people cuz you heard you gotta be aggressive with suited connectors. Play ABC, tight poker, and dont get impatient and you will beat the low stakes hold em games ($50 and under tourney buy-in and less than $2 blinds cash game) no doubt.

 

Also, if I was teaching/coaching a new player i would tell them to almost never bluff on the beginning. A main problem I see with new/inexperienced/bad players is they jusy have this mindset that they can never let a pot go, they gotta bluff everything and while "being aggressive" is what you always hear the pros preach, that advice is moreso for a tough, somewhat high stakes game with some quality players, not the absolute donk loose drunkfest that most of these low stakes games are. Bluffing is simply NOT a powerful weapon in these loose games im describing, the players are simply too loose for continued bluffing to be profitable. Im not saying "dont bet unless you have the nuts", you still have to throw your c-bets out there and there will be spots here and there where a little bluff is a nice play but my message is, dont get caught up in any all-in over the top bluffs with total air in these games.

 

Start playing supertight and loosen up as you get more experienced, instead of the other way most beginners start off which is playing EVERY hand and slowly tightening up as they get more experience. Aggressive is good, loose is not. Most people cant tell the difference between the two but there is a huge one.

 

Ill post more as i think of stuff, GL

great tips electric 

genius

 

This is very good advice for anyone.....

  The poker player at a local bar that I have had conversations with is completely irrational, but your advice is spot on.  I see him in most poker players that say they rarely lose, and he thinks HE is a genius, but is a lying blowhard instead.

Electric, I would love for you to see his irrational, arrogant blog, and for you to tell me what you think.  Everytime I disagree with HIM and back it up with facts, he just calls me a bitter loser.  I cannot stand that prick.  Under google, type in "Yelle poker" and tell me what you think.      

ok im gonna look at it tonite  

  And.....?

my simple advice is:

1. don't see too many flops - around 10%
2. be tight aggressive
3. count your odds, pot odds, implied odds, outs and make smart decisions
4. don't chase
5. play your position
6. trap...if you flop a set on a rainbow flop, check.
7. start off slow, table will notice that you're not playing too many hands and you will get the rep as a tight player (gives you opps for bluffs).

 

Great post,i do the same thing.I only have 10 of them.Notes are VERY INPORTANT IF YOUR GOING TO PLAY ONLINE

I stick with my best game which is 7 stud !

 

I can play any limit and win 75%  of the time I read the players actions they are so obvious when bluffing or they act weak when they are monstered !

Holdem ehhhhh nothing but a board game like playing bingo !

 

 

In no limit tournaments-you can employ a very basic strategy if you feel overmatched or are new to live tournament play: VERY, VERY selective all-in's or fold. Nothing else. Dewey Tomko has employed this exact strategy at different times during tournaments. It severly limits your opponents-the risk is enormous but, like I said, if you are new to live tournaments, it is an option. Of course you need to develop a game but it will get you table time to settle your nerves etc. The second thing you must do all the time, is to emotionally disconnect from the cards. No love-No hate, play smart and no reaction regardless of the situation. I'm sure someone will tell you this is total bullshit. It is for NL tourneys only and in the circumstances I stated above. BOL