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Online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker for Beginners
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Online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker
for Beginners
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© August O’Meara - All Rights Reserved
www.onlinepokerbook.net
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Online No-Limit Texas Hold’em Poker for Beginners
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Table of Contents
Introduction ...........................................................................................................4
This Book, Defined .....................................................................................................6
What You Will Learn ..................................................................................................7
Limit vs. No-Limit ............................................................................................8
Definitions ............................................................................................................10
Playing Online ...................................................................................................13
Sit ‘n Go (SNG) with Play Money .............................................................................14
No-Limit Hold’em ..........................................................................................16
The Basics.................................................................................................................16
Starting Hands ...................................................................................................17
Getting Started with a Good Hand .............................................................................17
Limping-in Bad Hands ..............................................................................................21
Pros and Cons............................................................................................................22
Playing Good Hands ......................................................................................24
How Much to Bet? ....................................................................................................24
Playing Group 1 Hands..............................................................................................25
Playing Low Pairs (and the slick) All-in ....................................................................32
Post-Flop Hand Odds ....................................................................................36
Calculating Outs........................................................................................................36
Outs and Odds Chart .................................................................................................37
Odds Scenarios Chart ................................................................................................38
Computing Outs Percentages the Easy Way! .............................................................41
Playing in Position ..........................................................................................42
Tight in front, loose in back .......................................................................................43
Playing on the Button ................................................................................................45
Two for the Price of One ...........................................................................................46
The “Pot-Committed” Falacy ..................................................................48
Lay Down a Loser .....................................................................................................51
Playing the Blinds ...........................................................................................53
Bluffing ..................................................................................................................55
A Bluffing Example: .................................................................................................55
BAD BEATS ......................................................................................................58
How to Avoid Bad Beats ...........................................................................................59
END GAME .......................................................................................................61
Steal the Blinds! ........................................................................................................61
END GAME Phase 2.................................................................................................64
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ACTING!: ............................................................................................................67
RULE #2: DON’T BE 4 th ..........................................................................................70
BONUS: .................................................................................................................73
What I Have Learned from the “Super System” ........................73
Bluffing, Doyle’s Way ..............................................................................................75
Complete Miss ..........................................................................................................75
Betting, and the “Super System”................................................................................77
My Conclusions of the “Super System” .....................................................................81
Conclusion ...........................................................................................................82
Basic Rules to Playing Winning Hold’em..................................................................83
Bibliography .......................................................................................................85
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Introduction
If you are reading this, I am guessing you’ve seen the WSOP on ESPN and have
said to yourself, “That looks like fun” and now are ready to try your hand at a bit of
Poker. This is a very common thought as, more and more, Poker has made it into our
lives.
If Hollywood had held off, and released the movie Rounders, starring Matt
Damon and Ed Norton today; it would be a blockbuster. Poker has taken over sports
television that used to be reserved for lesser-known sports like skeet, and inline hockey.
Poker isn’t just for the bad time slots anymore. The WSOP is shown in prime time on
ESPN. This is time ESPN used to use for Major League Baseball.
The question that I have heard asked is, “Why is poker so popular now?” It is
true. The WSOP has been held for 30+ years. ESPN has been around for 25 years, yet,
all of a sudden, there is poker on all the time.
The reason is the Internet. Folks no longer have to travel to a card club, or a
casino, or Vegas or wherever to get a game of poker. Also, they don’t have to schedule
their poker play around their friends’ schedules. With the Internet, anyone with a few
bucks can head to an online poker room and play with complete strangers any time of the
day or night. At PartyPoker.com, it is rare to see the number of people on the site less
than 15,000 at any given time. And that is just one site.
Another reason poker is so popular now is the “hole card camera” that they use on
TV. The camera is used to see what cards the “best” players in the world are holding, and
how they play them. This is intriguing, and educational. You can learn the game by
watching. Television gives us that education.
A third reason for Poker’s explosion in popularity is the game itself. No-limit
Texas Hold’em is what is advertised and played on TV in the WSOP and the WPT. This
is THE game. This game is a different animal altogether. It is not 5-card or 7-card stud.
It is definitely not Omaha.
Everyone only gets two cards. Then they all use the 5 community cards to see
who has the best hand. With everyone holding so few cards in secret, there is a very
FINITE amount of hands that can be made with the community cards. Hands that are any
good that is. More importantly, possible hands that can beat your hand.
The game itself is genius. It is simple. It is easy enough to know if you have the
best hand possible. It is also a game that can be played with a lot of skill, and a bit of
luck.
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The final reason for poker’s current popularity is that the general masses finally
see the game as a skill game. A sport. It isn’t exactly gambling. Most folks look at
playing cards, playing poker, as gambling. Or they used to. With all the media attention
devoted to No-Limit Texas Hold’em, the general public is finally figuring out that this is
a game of skill, not luck. If you get better at your skills, you will be a better player. You
can work to hone your skills, to “think correctly” throughout a game.
I hate to mention Rounders again, but quoting Matt Damon, “Why does this still
seem like gambling to you? I mean, why do you think the same five guys make it to the
final table of the World Series of Poker EVERY SINGLE YEAR? What, are they the
luckiest guys in Las Vegas? It's a skill game, Jo.” While that isn’t exactly true anymore,
as the number of folks entering that tournament has more than tripled in the last year,
increasing the odds of getting unlucky, it still reinforces the point about Hold’em being a
skill game.
Next in importance is the stage that the media shows us. It only shows us
tournaments. We all know that “gambling” is “morally” wrong. Or you should know.
That is, if you ever went to church, you heathen. (smirk) Television doesn’t show us the
bad side of the gambling lifestyle. The guy that goes down to the card club with a cap of
$100, loses a lot, hits the cash machine twice, and leaves down $400. This is the morally
wrong side to poker, and gambling in general.
What the media shows us now is tournament poker. Specifically Hold’em. There
is a set buy-in. The chips aren’t real money, they are just chips. If you lose all your
chips, you are out. Game over. If you win all the chips, you are the winner and collect
the top prize. There is no going to the cash machine and trying to “win it back”. The
game that is presented on television is in a buy-in format, and when you are out, you are
out.
Granted, the buy-in for the WSOP is $10,000, but there are many ways around
paying that. PokerStars.com hosts many satellite tournaments to win your way into the
WSOP. As you probably know, PokerStars.com put 316 qualifiers into the WSOP in
2004. The winners in 2003 & 2004, Chris Moneymaker and Craig Raymer, both
qualified through PokerStars.com. Neither of them paid anywhere CLOSE to $10,000 to
win their millions.
Your dreams can come true playing poker. And you can have fun doing it.
“Enough blather already, get to the information”, I hear from the back of the
class. Okay. It’s time to get down to business.
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