A live player can expect to play 20—25 hands per hour, while a multi-tabling online player can play — hands per hour.

Pay attention to their tactics and which hands they are showing down. Don't allow yourself to get impatient and play a hand not worth playing. Too many players don't have the guts to fire big bluffs, which leaves them exploitable to attentive opponents who will stop paying them off.

In turn, they lose a lot of value. You need be the player who rouses fear and anxiety in your opponents by applying pressure in big pots despite not always having the goods.

Being able to do this effectively will make you a better and more versatile player overall, and will increase your win-rate tremendously.

Unless, of course, you're up against a weak player who folds far too often--the perfect type of player to bluff relentlessly. Every professional poker player has a friend who won big money in a large tournament, then proceeded to blow their winnings in cash games or by registering tournaments at stakes way higher than their usual.

To survive the troughs, you need to act responsibly during the peaks. Medium-strength hands should usually be played passively, since they are rarely the winning hand in big pots.

The exception is when they should be played a bit more aggressively to deny equity. These types of hands tend to play better as bluff-catchers, as they protect the weaker hands in your range--like ace high or weak pairs.

This is very helpful because your opponents will not be able to easily bluff you once you check.

And playing these hands passively is another key to a well-rounded playing style. You should always put yourself in positions where your edge is the largest.

And it will still be there when you are ready. Slow playing is a mistake common among players who are afraid of chasing their opponents out of the pot.

However, when you feel uncertain, just bet. Studying is essential to becoming the best poker player you can be, but at the same time, poker is a game that requires practice.

Many of the decisions you make at the poker table are automatic. This, of course, only gets worse as the decisions become important.

But it's very important you set aside time to study. Reading poker articles , playing around with poker tools , and talking over hands with friends are a few of the many ways you can improve your game away from the table.

This is a mistake many new players make, but also some more experienced players. The situation usually plays out as follows.

Their opponent checks to them on the river and they have a medium strength hand, so they bet On the river, you should be betting with a polarized range.

That is to say, bet with a range that contains both value bets and bluffs, and check everything in between. All you have to do is check and showdown with these medium-strength hands and hope to drag the pot.

Poker expert and game theory wizard Matthew Janda says we should bluff the most on the flop, slightly less on the turn, and the least on the river.

Applications shows that in order to bet with a balanced range a range composed of the optimal number of value bets and bluffs on the river, we need to bluff less on each progressive street.

This is because our bluffs will have more equity on earlier streets, as well as the opportunity to bluff again on a later street.

Think about it So, because we have more equity, we can bluff more often while still remaining balanced. This is one of the most misunderstood aspects of advanced tournament poker strategy.

So, instead of playing defensively, you should be playing solid and aggressive poker early on in order to build up a stack for a deep run.

If you find yourself short-stacked and near the money bubble or a pay jump, then you can start using a more survival-oriented playing style.

Poker is a complex game. You have to weigh many factors in order to choose the best path of action. Bet sizing aside, the choices themselves are not many: you only need to choose between checking, calling, betting, raising, or folding.

But figuring out which one of these actions wins the most is seldom obvious. This is why you should always avoid rushing when making a decision.

An extra moment's thought could provide the crucial insight needed to make the right choice, and it'll help you keep emotions out of your decision making.

Do this and you'll win more, and learn more while playing. That said, it's important to avoid all unnecessary tanking.

You should never, for example, take 15 seconds to fold your 9s5c preflop from under the gun. Not only will it piss off your fellow players, you will actually hurt your own win-rate by reducing the number of hands played per hour.

Building a network of poker playing friends will advance your understanding of the game. You'll bounce ideas off of each other, and gain new perspectives on every situation.

The problem with going it alone is that you're more prone to biases. In fact, it will still be there tomorrow. When you're just starting out playing poker, you want toplay poker, and that means staying in hands that aren't very good just to be part of the action.

But playing more doesn't mean winning more, it usually means losing more. If you find you're staying in on half or more of the hands you're dealt, you need to upgrade your starting hand requirements.

Don't Bluff Just For Bluffing's Sake A lot of beginner's understand that bluffing is a part of poker, but not exactly how. There's is NO rule that one must bluff a certain amount or at all during a poker game, but many players don't feel like they've won unless they've tried a poker bluff.

It's better never to bluff than to bluff "just to bluff. You can't win a pot just by throwing money at it. There may be cases when pot odds warrant a call, but if you're sure you're beaten, and there's no way your hand can improve to be the best hand, you should fold right away.

The money you've already put in the pot isn't yours anymore, and you can't get it back just by playing a hand all the way to the end.

I see a lot of players look at another player's final bet, look at the hand, and say "I know you've got me, but I have to keep you honest," as they throw in a final call.

It may be worth it to see if a player really has the hand they're representing; you're gaining information that will help you later on.

But if you really feel a player has the hand and you're beat, why give him another pile of your money? Those bets will add up over an evening.

Do Pay Attention to the Cards on the Table When you first start playing, it's enough just to remember how to play and pay attention to your own hand.

But once you've got that down, it's incredibly important to look at what's going on at the table. In 7-card stud , pay attention to what's showing and what people have folded when you consider calling opponents.

Make sure you can pick out which hand wins in Texas Hold'em. As you play, one of the single best things you can do is observe your opponents, even when you're not in a hand.

If you know if one player always raises in a certain position, and another has a poker tell when he bluffs, and a third folds to every re-raise, you can use that information to help you decide how to play against them.

Once you know that player 3 always folds to a re-raise on a river, that's when you can bluff and steal a pot. There are many reasons people move up to a higher limit game than they usually play.

Good reasons such as that they've been winning consistently at a lower level and are ready to move up, and bad reasons such as the lines are shorter for higher limits or you want to impress someone.

Don't play at stakes that make you think about the actual money in terms of day-to-day life or with money you can't lose.

The next tip explains more why. You want to be one of the best at the table, not the fish who sits down with sharks.

If you're making stacks of money at a lower level game, why move? You're winning stacks of money. The swings up and down at higher limits are much bigger, and one big night's win won't last long at a high-stakes game.

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