whatever, with this competition you'll ensure your game is in the best possible shape...

post as a reply to this thread your favourite poker tip... the best three on a monthly basis (as voted by your peers) will be published in our poker school, with a veritable 'tip bank' growing for all you students and aficionados of the game alike...

so, dust off your training manuals, sharpen your pencils and let fly with your words of wisdom...

after all, fail to prepare, prepare to fail...  

my top tip comes from many excrutiating bad beats from the dreaded aa, kk, jj pockets. i deliberately left out qq because you can't go dissing the ladies.

if you find yourself with these terrible money losing pockets, rid yourself of them immediately! if you keep them, you are only asking for trouble and you will allow someone to suckout on you almost every time.

so, in a nutshell, my tip is to fold aa, kk, or jj pre flop so as to save yourself many headaches and badbeat stories down the road.

my br has increased 10x since i started doing this.

i disagree,

the correct play is to try and maximize your high pocket pair by gauging how much you can bet and still keep one or two players in the hand with you. obviously you dont want to many players in the hand or you will get bad beated a lot.

aa wins more pots than any other starting hand, so i dont see how folding it could possibly be a smart move. unless your trying to give beginners bad advice on purpose.

odat

i can kinda see both sides of this yes pocket pairs especially aces are good but also preflop i'm very careful with them i try to put in a good raise if i'm first to act or late position to get rid of ppl as i only want 2 ppl against me not sure of the odds on aa with 3 but i think it's 45% , but there again if i'm in late position and theres a big raiser before me this will get me thinking as i've lost to pocket aces loads calling preflop all-ins to straights and flushes it might sound daft but after the luck i have had with aces i'd sooner have a , k suited over it but who am i to say i've only been playing like 8 months to a year and i'm superstitious lol








I dont need you to tell me what to post Big Boy

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Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo

i have two tips for newer players. one is take all the notes you can on any opponent.  the notes are like your key to victory.

another one i have is the rule of 4.  this is a way to figure your percentage to win the hand.  its not exact but its easy to remember. after the flop figure out how many outs you think you have then multiply that number by 4. thats your percent to win. so if you think you have 6 outs well then 6x4=24 so your 24% to win the hand.

the same method works after the turn or fourth card you take your number of outs and multiply by 2 so once again if you have 6 outs with 1 card to come 6x2=12 so your now have a 12% chance to win. like i said its approximate but its easy

if you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker

i was a bit withdrawn about posting this but i have had some success recently on the multi table tournies.

recently i have been betting aggresively when ive had good starting hands. in the first 10 hands of a multi table tourney you are always gonna get your casino playing raise allin on every hand type players. on most occasions an aggresive bet with decent pocket cards against a loose opponent pays off.

so i triple or quadruple up my chip stack early on in the tourney and sit out until the last table. obviously i keep an eye on the game but i let every one else slug it out. then i come back with 10 people left with my chip stack at around 1000 is usually enough for me to do some damage and as long as i play tight i can usually make the top 5.

not exactly what you call guaranteed money but if i play too long ill loose it all after a few good hands. this way i got a shot at placing and winning some money.

D1EGO - The Ice Man

short but sweet.

a random pre-flop hand raising 10bb to steal the bb from the sb, will always generate positive long term equity. in english, this means you can always push any two cards when you or the bb has less than 10bb.