Poker play tip

Playing Before the Flop

The most important decision you make during a hand of holdem is whether to enter the pot in the first place. As a winning player, your greatest single source of profit comes from those who play hands they should be folding. The mistake of entering a pot with a marginal or inferior hand can easily be compounded by improving the hand just enough on the flop to continue with it until the end. For example, hands such as 8-6 off suit should rarely, if ever, be played, for the reason that even when they improve, they often don't win the pot. In this manner, an initial mistake of playing a bad hand has paved the way for the rest of the hand, which could turn out to be quite expensive. poker play with web cam

The tip in this post help you avoid this trap, by showing a tight-aggressive approach to approach to hand selection. We can't possible cover every possible situation, but we hope that the use of numerous examples is effective in forming general guidelines in your mind as to how to play holdem before the flop.

By Barry Shulman