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1. Tight is Right. The most common mistake made by limit hold’em players is that they play too many hands. Look, no one enters a casino or logs on to an online game with the intention of folding hand after hand. But when you look at the entire universe of possible two-card starting hand combinations you might be dealt.
2. No-Limit is a game of outplaying your opponent - maximizing your wins, minimizing your losses. You play for stacks, and look for opportunities to put your opponent to a decision for all of his chips. In Limit Hold'em poker you play the fine odds and work at exploiting the meager statistical advantages. Your Goal in Limit Hold'em Poker.

Hold'em was offered only in tournament settings, but it has recently been offered in many card rooms as a regular ring game.
Most no-limit ring games have a set buy-in (for instance, $200) or a range of buy-ins (for instance, your buy-in might be for any amount between $200 and $400). Of course, if you lose all of your chips, you can buy back in. The games have a

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blind structure and minimum betting structure just like regular limit games. A game may be called $200, 1/2 no-limit, which means that the buy-in is $200, the blinds are .50 and $1, and the minimum bet the first two rounds is $1 and the last two rounds is $2.
Because of the structure of no-limit, upswings and downswings are magnified. For this reason, if you decide to play no-limit Hold'em, you may need a large bankroll -- especially to start with.
No-limit ring games like these can be profitable for the better players. A strong recommendation is to play extremely tight when you first sit at a table until you get a feel for your opponents. These games allow solid players to use all of their tools in areas such as bluffing, pot odds, psychology, and solid game skills. Drawing hands go down in value and made hands (such as pocket pairs) go up.
For players who have a solid understanding of pot odds, no-limit Hold'em can be a gold mine. Because of the ability to place any size bet, you can manipulate pot odds to force your opponents to pay too high of a price to draw to their hand or make the price low enough that it is correct for them to call when you want them to. This fact alone makes the understanding of the correct use of pot odds imperative to anyone hoping to be a successful poker player.
Tight/aggressive play is the only way to be a successful no-limit Hold'em player. Good players rarely call in no-limit. They almost always fold or raise. This doesn't mean that you should never call; it just means that as you gain experience, rarely will you find yourself behind at the beginning of a hand. Instead, you allow your opponents opportunities to make mistakes because of this aggressive style of play combined with tight starting hand requirements.
While playing no-limit Hold'em, your first instinct will probably be to move all-in when you see pocket aces. In a typical game, this will win you the pot, but you will likely win only the blinds since everyone else probably folded. When you have a great starting hand such as AA, KK, AK, or QQ, your goal should be to raise enough to make all but one or two opponents fold. Then, if you are reraised before the flop, you can move all-in. Winning the most pots in a session is nice, but winning the most money is what counts. For this reason you must consider how to maximize your winnings with your best hands. The strategies concerning

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checking, raising, and check-raising are all tools you can use to make money at the poker table.
Texas Hold'em is a game that is simple to learn, but difficult to master. These tips should provide you a nice base for a lifetime of poker fun. Good luck!

For more information about Texas Hold 'Em Poker and other variations, try the following links:

• To see all of our articles on poker rules and advice, go to our main article on How To Play Poker.
• Some Poker Basics are essential before you sit down at the card table.
• For a more complicated version of hold 'em, learn How to Play Omaha Poker.
• Get to know the previous 'most popular game in poker', in How to Play 7-Card Stud Poker.

Limit hold'em. There, I said it, and the world didn't fall apart.

I know that among a certain subset of the poker community, it's quite fashionable to treat fixed-limit hold'em as something like a polyester suit — it was fine a generation ago, but now is part of the past.

Is it just because you can't shove all in? Because you have to earn your money one pot at a time rather than in a couple of massive double-ups? Because you basically always have to play four streets of poker?

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And there's this thing about profit — sometimes it's fun to make money at poker without working hard at it. That brings me to my story.

I was at a casino recently and thought I'd sit down and play a little poker. Wander into the poker room and they've got a game going.

Me: 'You got a seat?'
Room manager: 'Yes sir. $3/$6 limit hold'em. Are you familiar with that?'
Me: 'Yeah, I played it a time or two.'
Room manager: 'How many chips would you like?'

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I sat down and built up my five perfect stacks of $1 chips. Unlike no-limit, with all its mixing and matching of colors, a good limit game has exactly one color chip in action. Everything's easier. But I digress.

Folks, as I watched and played this game, I realized I was seeing something that I hadn't seen in years — the most honest, transparent game of poker imaginable. They all limped in so they could hit a flop. If you raised, they called, because they wanted to see the flop. After that, they checked and called if they thought they weren't drawing dead. If they bet, my goodness, they were beating top-top and you simply had to evaluate your chances against a Very Good Hand.

A check-raise promised at least two pair. It was never on a king-high board, it was never a draw — it was the goods.

Furthermore, the average pot I played was far bigger than the average pot that I play in a $1/$2 no-limit game. That's because I'd raise after a handful of limpers, they'd all call, and we'd be off to the races.

And race it was, because when you make it $6 to go with after three limpers and they all call, you have to drag your kings through a minefield. But I'll tell you what — they stand up way more than their share of the time, and when they do, you drag a two-scoop pot.

And if you hit a Real Hand, with two (or three or four) people all calling a couple of big bets on the turn and river ('I have to call — look at the size of the pot'), then you've got a three-scooper and it's as big as any pot you see every 45-60 minutes in a $1/$2 no-limit game.

I'm telling you, sometimes it's fun to play poker without the giant peaks and valleys of unlimited betting. You just bang your bets out there when you have the best hand and hope it holds. You call when you have the right price to draw, which is almost always.

And friends, you pay attention when they bet, and don't play head games with yourself. Because I promise you that in that game, and ones like it, when they bet or raise, they mean exactly what they're saying, and in fact, it's usually an understatement.

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Limit Hold'em Strategy

Your no-limit instincts will generally keep you in good shape when playing limit hold'em, as long as you remember pot odds. That specifically means:

1. You are never getting anybody off a decent hand, nor should you try. Furthermore, it's not correct for anybody to give up a 'decent' hand when they can get to a showdown for a relatively low price. So don't try to 'represent' a hand better than top pair and think they're going to fold top pair.
2. No-limit hold'em pot odds calculations are generally of the form 'I'm getting 2-to-1' (or 2.5-to-1 or 3-to-1) — numbers of that magnitude. Limit hold'em routinely offers prices like 10-to-1, 15-to-1 or even 20-to-1. At that price, you can do a lot more gambling — be sure to take that into account.
3. Please don't make hero folds on the river with a decent hand in a big pot. Throw your last one big bet out there with the anticipation of saying 'Nice hand, sir/ma'am.' People are bad at estimating small probabilities; trying to decide if you're better or worse than 19-to-1 against is not most people's strong suit.

One of the beauties of poker is the variety of forms and fashions it offers. If you can play limit hold'em, sometimes you'll have the opportunity to make good money playing a fun game against transparent, honest, but eminently fun and enjoyable opponents. Our game is rarely better than that.

NB: With the Spring Championship of Online Poker coming up at PokerStars, you'll have ample opportunity to flex your limit hold'em muscles. Your SCOOP opponents won't be as honest or transparent as my friends at this small casino, but many of the same principles apply — and you might find you really enjoy the game.

Lee Jones first joined PokerStars in 2003 and has been involved in the professional poker world for over 30 years. You can read his occasional Twitter-bites at @leehjones.

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