Strategy Or System
Introduction
Everybody wants to win at poker and everybody wants to win as easily and consistently as possible, so is there a strategy or system that can help a poker player to regularly win their poker games? The fact of the matter is that whether you’re playing online poker or playing poker in a casino, the very best system or strategy is that which you learn by experience in playing poker. In other words, reading articles like this that contain hints and tips is fine and can help you; but ultimately you need to discover your own strategies and systems according to your preferred style of poker play.
Poker strategies
Adopting strategies for playing poker will include things like playing tight or loose, looking for poker tells, bluffing etc. If you’re a relative novice at poker you’re probably playing most, in not all, of your poker online; you will find that you’ll need to adjust your strategies when you make the move to playing in ‘bricks and mortar’ poker room or casino. The mere physical presence of other players around a poker table will unsettle you initially and so you’ll need some extra strategies to combat any potential feelings of discomfort, if you don’t want to start losing heavily.
Poker systems
One thing you can guarantee about poker is that you’ll never be short of advice as to how to play and how this or that poker system could work for you. However, I think you’d do a lot worse than to consider the advice on poker systems given by that doyen of poker writers – David Sklansky. Without wishing to do him a disservice his poker system is simply to keep looking for opportunities to move in before the flop. If you’ve got aces, or ace-king or even just ace-king suited – and someone has raised before you, move all in; if not then fold. Or, if you’ve got aces, any ace-king, a pair or even any same suit connected cards (but not a four or two with a three) – then again move all in.