The lifestyle of a professional poker player looks attractive on the surface, but the most successful players work very hard to attain such a lifestyle, with all it’s trappings.
If you want to become a professional poker player, you’ll need to study, be physically and mentally fit, and work hard to maintain your bankroll and grow it consistently.
With the 2019 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker underway, we catch up with Team Pro Lex Veldhuis to see how he prepared for the grueling 2.5-week-long grind and to hear what advice he’d give to players giving WCOOP a shot for the first time.
If you’re a poker beginner, in order to improve you don’t just need to practice playing, you need to adopt winning strategies. In this article, Cardplayer Lifestyle Senior contributor George Epstein shares three strategies, namely the A/K/Q rule, the Hold’em Caveat, and the importance of game texture, which are critical to keep in mind when playing.
Having taught hundreds of senior citizens how to play Texas Hold’em, George Epstein knows that, especially if you want to become a winning player, you’ve got to master the basics.
In this article, Cardplayer Lifestyle’s Senior contributor lists 6 great Texas Hold’em tips that are certainly worthwhile to internalize.
It can be very difficult to navigate your way in multiway pots, so playing those spots correctly is critical to both protecting your own hands and getting other players to fold their drawing hands.
Here are three tips for how to play better in multiway pots. Be sure to integrate them into your arsenal of poker tools so that you’re equipped to act correctly next time such a spot comes up.
When you hear that an online poker operator has just debuted a new, speedier version of the game, there’s a natural tendency to want to check it out and give the new game a try.
That said, you should be aware that speedier versions of poker tend to increase the elements of luck, which for the skilled poker player is disadvantageous. More details in this brief strategy article.