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The decision you make most often during a poker game is if to fold or play the hand dealt. Infact, you make this decision every single hand! Therefore, it is vital you have a solid strategy regarding this!

• If you get your preflop hand selection wrong, then you are setting yourself up for a fall postflop. It will be difficult to recover.
• Find out in what circumstances you should memorise hand charts in advance, and when you absolutely shouldn’t.
• Find out how position and stack depth affects the hands you should be playing.
• We also cover important live poker preflop hand selection considerations.
• Start reading our comprehensive guide, to learn everything about preflop hand selection.

This in-depth guide covers everything we think you need to consider (including reasons, and sizing) regarding poker betting.

• Understanding poker betting incentives, should be a vital part of your overall strategy.
• Thus, we cover a wide variety of poker betting topics – all explained in an easy to understand way.
  • good and bad reasons to bet
  • postflop bet sizing
  • donk betting
  • slow/fast playing
  • equity realisation/denial
  • limping
  • floating
  • indifference
  • random decisions
  • elasticity/inelasticity.

We explore some practical ways to avoid tilt, that you can start doing immediately. Plus, we look at variance and downswings.

• Tilt, in a poker hand, can be defined as any negative deviation from the way a player would have played that hand had he been thinking rationally to the best of their current ability, without letting any emotions cloud their thought process.
• Tilt will likely affect almost every player who plays poker, and can occur for an endless amount of reasons.
• We also explain why variance is great (even though it may not seem that way at first). Plus, how to cope with downswings (which are almost certainly inevitable if you play long enough).
• Dive into our comprehensive guide to avoiding tilt.

Learn about range construction, polarised vs condensed ranges, live poker ranges, and GTO strategies.

• We think it is imperative you always think in terms of range construction, and never just react to what happens.
• Learn all about poker ranges with this definitive guide.

Could you get information about an opponent’s cards, due to their behaviour (i.e. their poker tells)? How do you avoid giving away any information on your own cards?

• When playing poker in person, there are a whole host of opportunities for spotting poker tells.
• Poker tells are voluntarily or involuntarily behaviour, exhibited by players, that give away information about their holding.
• Did you know that spotting poker tells is possible online too, even though you cannot see your opponent?
• Of course, you will not want to give away any poker tells yourself! Avoid a savvy opponent to get information from you. We cover some great ways to avoid giving away information.
• Finally, we cover 2 vital caveats you must consider before using poker tells. These are false tells, and the reliability of a potential tell.
• Dive straight in to learn just about everything about poker tells you could possibly want to know.

Why is the average skill level at a live poker table at higher stakes, so much less than an online table at lower stakes?

• What are the differences between live poker & online poker, and how do these affect which you should pick? Why are live games significantly softer than online?
• What’s the best strategies for the straddle (common in live games)?
• How do you keep notes effectively when playing live?
• Learn all this with our definitive guide to live poker.

Before playing even one hand of poker, we recommend you really think carefully about your total bankroll, cash game/tournament mix, buy-in amounts, table selection, and recording results.

• How big does your total bankroll ideally have to be?
• Will you be more suited to cash games or tournaments?
• How much should you buy in for (cash games)?
• Which table(s) should you pick (cash games)?
• How will you record results?
• We cover all these things in our easy to understand comprehensive guide