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Most people who play Texas hold'em want to get better at it. Even those who play Texas holdem online purely for recreation usually have more fun if they are winning. While becoming a Texas hold’em master will take some hard work and innate talent, there are a few things you can do right away to start getting better.

1. Stop Playing So Many Hands
The number one mistake most new players make at Texas hold em is playing too many hands, not least in Texas holdem online. If you start out with the best hand, you are more likely to end up with the best hand. If you play any two cards with the hopes of flopping something good, you will often make the second best hand. This will result in you paying off opponents too much. Even if you don't make any hands, your chips will bleed away, since you will pay for a lot of missed flops and not win enough when you finally hit.

2. Try Second Level Thinking
Don’t consider your hand in a vacuum. Sure you have a flush, but there’s a high pair on the board and an opponent is betting strongly. You have to consider that he may have a full house. Alternatively, if a player raised before the flop and the flop comes three low cards, you have to consider the possibility that he was betting high cards and missed, even if your hand is not that strong.

3. Try Third Level Thinking
In online texas holdem, once you’re thinking about what your opponent has, try thinking about what your opponent may think you have. This seems a little tricky, but just try to put yourself in your opponent’s shoes and try to imagine what you might conclude about the hand if you were in his seat.

4. Find Your Comfort Level
To play your best Texas holdem online, you should be playing at stakes that are not so high that you are afraid to make the moves you need to make, but not so low that you play carelessly. If you’re not sure, err on the side of playing lower stakes. You can always move up if you’re convinced that you are not being challenged at your current level.

5. Analyze Your Play
This is easier to do online with downloaded hand histories, but you can do it in live play too. Go over key hands and think about what you did right and what you did wrong, and how that affected your results. If you pinpoint a real error, try to correct it mentally before your next session.

Online Poker ?

One of the most popular ways to play poker today is the free poker tournaments online. A free online poker tournament is a poker game where the players all play until one has all the chips and is declared the winner. Unless the tournament is winner take all, the top 10 percent receive some kind of prize, with the winner receiving the largest share and each player after receiving successively less. Online poker tournaments have the same structure, but are played over the Internet rather than in a live casino. There are lots of sites offering online poker in the form of tournaments. One of the oldest, the site Poker Room is well known for good and exciting tournaments.
A big advantage of online poker tournaments is that you can play them from your own home. While the convenience of playing from home is always nice, it can be especially important in an online poker tournament. Poker tournaments, if you play well enough to finish in the money, can take five hours or more to complete. In a live tournament, you will be spending all of that time in the casino. Some players may not have the endurance to spend hours and hours at a casino. For these players the online poker tournament is ideal. It is much easier to play for hours when you have all the comforts of home at your fingertips.
Online poker tournaments are also nice because you can keep constant track of your standing in the tournament. While live poker tournaments do the best they can, it is impossible for them to provide a running total of who has how many chips and how many players remain at all stages of play. During online poker tournaments, all of this information is easily accessible with the click of a mouse and you can factor this information into your decision making during the game.
You can always find a free poker tournament online. Most casinos run at most one or two poker tournaments a day, but online poker tournaments are run around the clock, so you can get tournament experience as often as you like.

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Texas Hold'em is a success story without comparison. From being a fairly small game only played by old-school Texas gamblers, it’s now played by millions of people online and offline all around the world...
Hold 'em's simplicity and popularity have inspired a wide variety of strategy books which provide recommendations for proper play. Most of these books recommend a strategy that involves playing relatively few hands but betting and raising often with the hands one plays... Although little is known about the invention of Texas hold 'em, the Texas State Legislature officially recognizes Robstown, Texas as the game's birthplace, dating the game to the early 1900s. After its invention and spread throughout Texas, hold 'em was introduced to Las Vegas in 1967 by a group of Texan gamblers and card players, including Crandell Addington, Doyle Brunson, and Amarillo Slim. Addington said the first time he saw the game was in 1959. "They didn't call it Texas hold 'em at the time, they just called it hold 'em... I thought then that if it were to catch on, it would become the game. Draw poker, you only bet twice; hold 'em, you bet four times. That meant you could play strategically. This was more of a thinking man's game."
For several years the Golden Nugget Casino in Downtown Las Vegas was the only casino in Las Vegas to offer the game.
Because of its location and decor, this poker room did not receive many rich drop-in clients, and as a result, professional players sought a more prominent location. In 1969, the Las Vegas professionals were invited to play Texas hold 'em at the entrance of the now-demolished Dunes Casino on the Las Vegas Strip...
This tournament featured several games including Texas hold 'em. In 1970 Benny and Jack Binion acquired the rights to this convention, renamed it the World Series of Poker, and moved it to their casino Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. After its first year, a journalist, Tom Thackrey, suggested that the main event of this tournament should be no-limit Texas hold 'em. The Binions agreed and ever since no-limit Texas hold 'em has been played as the main event. Interest in the Main Event continued to grow steadily over the next two decades. After receiving only 8 entrants in 1972, the numbers grew to over 100 entrants in 1982, and over 200 in 1991.
During this time, Doyle Brunson's revolutionary poker strategy guide, Super/System was first published (you can download Super System from my blog). Despite being self-published and priced at $100 in 1978, the book revolutionized the way poker was played. It was one of the first books to discuss Texas hold 'em, and is today cited as one of the most important books on this game. A few years later, Al Alvarez published a book detailing an early World Series of Poker event. The first book of its kind, it described the world of professional poker players and the World Series of Poker. It is credited with beginning the genre of poker literature and with bringing Texas hold 'em (and poker generally), for the first time, to a wider audience...
In the first decade of the 21st century, Texas hold 'em experienced a surge in popularity worldwide. Many observers attribute this growth to the synergy of five factors: the invention of online poker!
The ability to play cheaply and anonymously online has been credited as a cause of the increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em.
Online poker sites both allow people to try out games and also provide an avenue for entry into large tournaments (like the World Series of Poker) via smaller tournaments known as satellites. Both the 2003 and 2004 winners of the World Series qualified by playing in these tournaments.
Although online poker grew from its inception in 1998 until 2003, Moneymaker's win and the appearance of televisions advertisements in 2003 contributed to a tripling of industry revenues in 2004...

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Scotty Nguyen

Scotty Nguyen came to the U.S. from South Vietnam in 1974 at the age of 14, shortly thereafter getting his start on the card table in back-room poker games in his new home of Orange County. Eventually Scotty was expelled from his school because he spent more time on the tables than he did in class.
Southern California was Scotty's introduction to casino poker, where he took a job as a poker dealer to make ends meet.
Scotty was immortalized in the 1998 World Series of Poker Championship, saying to Kevin McBride: "You call this one, and it's all over, baby!" McBride called, and it was all over. That was Scotty Nguyen's $1,000,000 hand, and second WSOP bracelet.
Name: Scotty Nguyen
Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
Cashes: 180
Total Winnings: $9,126,566
First Place Finishes: 31
WSOP Bracelets: 5

Daniel Negreanu

A native of Toronto, Daniel Negreanu recognized early on in his life he had a knack for gambling and, more specifically, poker. So confident was he that at the age of 21 Daniel dropped out of college - just one credit shy of graduation - and moved to Las Vegas to pursue poker full-time. With two first place finishes at the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Daniel took the world of tournament poker by storm and never looked back. He has since added three World Series of Poker bracelets, two World Poker Tour titles, and more than thirty victories in tournaments across the globe. Negreanu currently resides in Las Vegas with his wife, Lori, and continues to be the model of composure and success for the new generation of poker players.
Name: Daniel Negreanu aka "Kid Poker"
Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
Cashes: 108
Total Winnings: $10,010,299
First Place Finishes: 24
WSOP Bracelets: 4

Phil Ivey

At 27 years old, Phil Ivey has become a force to be reckoned with. Often referred to as the "Tiger Woods," of poker - though he will say he's not deserving of such a comparison - Phil is an ambassador for a new generation of players.
Phil grew up in New Jersey, got his start on the green felt in Atlantic City. It wouldn't take long for his career to get a big boost, when he won his first three World Series of Poker title at the age of 23. Married to his highschool sweetheart, currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Name: Phil Ivey
Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
Cashes: 92
Total Winnings: $9,154,051
First Place Finishes: 16
WSOP Bracelets: 5

Phil Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth dropped out of the University of Wisconsin to pursue a poker career. His phenomenal WSOP run over the past 19 years all started in 1988, when he placed fifth in a Seven-Card Stud High-Low tournament. He won the main event the following year, the youngest player in history to do so – at age 24. He is also one of only three players in history to win three gold bracelets within a single year. He holds a record which is unlikely and perhaps impossible to break – three consecutive WSOP wins in three consecutive days (April 26-28, 1993). In addition to have won over $7,000,000 in lifetime tournament earnings, Phil has multiple endorsement deals, books, and merchandise, making him perhaps the best-known face in poker.
Name: Phil Hellmuth Jr
Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States
Cashes: 134
Total Winnings: $8,644,691
First Place Finishes: 20
WSOP Bracelets: 11

Doyle Brunson

Doyle Brunson a true Poker Legend. WSOP champion in 1976 and 1977 Doyle Brunson is widely regarded by many as the best poker player of all time. He is in 2nd place along with Johnny Chan in holding 10 WSOP braclets each. Last year 2007 Phil Hellmuth has won his 11th WSOP bracelet. Doyle Brunson proved that age is no factor in poker by winning the 2004 Legends of Poker World Poker Tour Event collecting $1,198,290 in what was the biggest ever WPT field at the time. He is regularly to be found at the Bellagio in Las Vegas playing High Stakes Poker with the best players in the game. Doyle Brunson wrote Super System which is regarded as the premier Poker book published and is a must read for all aspiring Poker players. Doyle, along with Gus Hansen and James Gardner were the first 3 players to be inducted into the WPT Poker Walk of Fame.
Name: Doyle Brunson
Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
Cashes: 41
Total Winnings: $5,086,751
First Place Finishes: 12
WSOP Bracelets: 10

Patrik Antonius

Widely regarded as one of the best online players in the world, Patrik Antonius was a tennis coach and model before becoming a professional poker player.
2005 was a big year for the young up-and-comer, seeing eight major tournament cashes, including a first place win on the European Poker Tour. His total winnings for 2007 reached over $2 Million.
Name: Patrik Antonius
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Cashes: 24
Total Winnings: $2,574,578
First Place Finishes: 1

Chris Ferguson

This 2000 WSOP Champion is easily the most recognized face in poker. He is a top professional poker player, both a mathematician and computer scientist with a photographic memory. As of 2004, he had the most cashes ever in a single year at the WSOP. Its hard to miss Chris Ferguson's tall shadowy frame at a tournament. His signature black hat, duster and long hair bring to poker an atmosphere of both excitement and foreboding. Though his clothing may disguise a genuinely nice guy, Chris Ferguson's poker skills are no act. He's played the best all over the world and has found the money more times than anyone can count. He's become a living poker legend, easily recognized and named by people with only passing poker knowledge.
Name: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Location: Pacific Palisades & Las Vegas, CA, United States
Cashes: 113
Total Winnings: $6,978,862
First Place Finishes: 11
WSOP Bracelets: 5

Playing Pocket Tens

How you play tens (or any other hand) is always a question of using the best tournament strategy. That's why you so often hear, "It all depends." There are times in tournaments when you might play tens like you would play deuces, especially in the early stages of a big buy-in event when lots of chips are in play and the blinds are small. You don't put a lot of heat on the pot and you don't take any heat to the hand. You might just slip in and hope to flop a set, not getting too involved if you don’t.
Tens and jacks (closely followed by queens) are two of the most difficult hands to play in no-limit hold'em. Although you'd rather have pocket jacks than tens, one advantage of tens is that a 10 can make a straight, and it is less likely that someone else can make a straight because you have two of them in your hand. Just remember that if you don't flop a set to the hand, there are four bigger cards that can beat you.
The bottom line is that you must be prepared to play in different ways against different opponents in different scenarios. If you aren't willing to modify your style of play according to the situation, you can get broke to tens (or any other hand) very easily.

Raise with small pocket pair ?

You've played a patient yet aggressive strategy, and you've finally made it to the final table. The table is six-handed, and you look down on the button to find a pair of fours. Everybody passes to you. What should you do?
Don't follow the example of so many tournament players on the circuit these days and push in your whole stack. Although a lot of players use this move when they're sitting around back with a pair of fours, fives or sixes, I think it's one of the most horrible plays I've ever seen in hold'em. When you have worked that hard to get to the final table, why take the chance of losing your whole stack with a small pair?
In this situation, it might be okay to make a baby raise, or even a medium-sized raise.

Raise or Re-Raise ?

When you’re playing a no-limit hold’em tournament, one of the first things you need to learn about your opponents is which players will bring it in for raises with smaller pairs. This knowledge is important because, unless you have an opponent pigeonholed as someone who often raises with small pairs, the only two hands that you can reraise the pot with are kings and aces. Raising with queens definitely is out of the question unless you’re in the pot against a small-pair raiser, or unless you’re sitting in a favorable position. There is nothing wrong with flat-calling with two queens or two jacks. Save your reraises for when you’re playing three or four-handed. When you have a medium-large pair—tens, jacks, or queens-you might want to reraise if you’re playing shorthanded, something that you never would do in a full ring.

Playing Pocket Aces

If you limp with aces, you will never get broke with aces. The only reason that you limp with aces before the flop is so that someone behind you will raise and give you the opportunity to reraise. If you flat call with them before the flop and nobody raises, four or five players may limp into the pot behind you with all sorts of random hands. The more people in the pot, the more chance that you’re going to get beaten. So, if one of them comes out swinging on a flop that looks dangerous for your aces—three connected or suited cards, for example—you can simply throw your aces away without losing any chips except your original bet. Nobody has seen your hand; nobody knows that you have limped in with aces, so just throw them away.
If you’re in the stage of a tournament when you have a shorter stack than your opponents, you would be a fool to limp with aces.
Two aces are the best starting hand you can get, but when the board is showing two small pair, for example, and an opponent puts in a big bet or raise on the river, what do you have? Still only one pair of aces, Eke and Ike, American Airlines, against a probable full house...

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