Poker Tips for Beginners

When you start playing online poker, you need to make sure you have a few strategies in place; this will help you produce a more profitable game at the beginning of your online poker career. In this guide, we will explore some of these key poker tips that you need to know as a novice.

Know When To Foldem

There are two parts to your game, winning through raising, and saving chips through folding. The later is often overlooked by newbie’s who are trying to win the ‘big pot’ when their actual chances of doing so are minimal. Finding out your hands that you should play pre-flop, then knowing the way that you are going to play them is pivotal. There are only two reasons you should still be in the pot, either because you think you have the best hand, or the odds are right for you to stay in the pot. Never stay in the pot for any other reason when you are a newbie.

Clear Mind

Let it be said that the person that came to a poker table; drunk, angry, tired or emotionally unstable, would only ever walk away a winner if they got seriously lucky. If you do not have a clear head then avoid the tables (both online and offline), it is as simple as that.

Do Not Bluff

Every experienced player will tell you that they wish they did not bluff when they were an amateur. There is not one poker player out there that has made a fortune from bluffing their way to hundreds of big pots. Leave the bluffing to the play money tables, and the professionals.

Stay In Your Bankroll

Before you play any game, you should have looked at our bankroll management page, printed it out, and ensure that you follow it to the letter. The dangers of playing outside your bankroll should be known by everyone. If you play low stakes than you winning potential is not worthwhile, and if you play high stakes than you are effectively giving yourself no chance before you have even seen a hand.

Note Taking

All the poker websites we have listed on this site offer a note taking ‘system’. You need to make sure you take notes on everybody’s poker strategies in order to help you in the future. Poker is a funny game, and you could come up against the same person in the same sort of situation again, and if your notes can save/win your money than they are more than worthwhile.

Playing online poker gets easier when you know what you are doing, but there is often a dangerous stage between making the transition from a play money player to an experienced player. Making sure you can handle this stage, and take a profit from it is one of the hardest things in poker, and this is why you need to ensure you follow all the steps listed on this site.