Trent Barstow asked:


Building your bankroll is critically important for your poker career success. The larger your bankroll, the more money you can make, provided you have the skill. If you have the skill without the bankroll, your income potential is very limited.

Starting Bankroll

The limit you play at should be directly proportional to your starting bankroll. You want to play at a safe enough limit that you won’t go broke from bad luck or occasional bad plays. A safe bet is to play at 20x your bankroll. If you have $1000, play $50 buyins.

Re-Invest Your Earnings

A lot be beginners make the mistake of wanting to take money out of their bankroll too quickly.

Instead, your bankroll will grow much faster if you just re-invested it instead. If you must withdraw from your bankroll, take out 30% of your earnings at most.

If you’re occasionally losing money due to bad luck and taking money out when you win, those two factors combined are enough to put you at risk of going broke.

Experiment

Rather than just sticking with the arena you’re comfortable in, try experimenting with other types of game. If you’re used to cash games, why not try your hand at SnGs? If you’re used to limit, why not try no limit? If you’re profitable, also try multi-tabling. You can often increase your hourly earnings significantly doing so.

Track Your Stats

Are you actually profitable? What’s your hourly earn rate? What’s most profitable for you per hour: SnGs, cash games, tournaments, etc? Do you earn more playing 1 table, 2 tables, 4 tables or 8 tables?

It’s important that you keep very careful track of your statistics. This enables you to know how much you’re earning on average. It’s also a great way to make sure you’re actually profitable. Unfortunately, a lot of beginners will actually be losing money when they think they’re doing well.

These are some of the more important aspects of managing your Texas Hold’em bankroll. Manage your bankroll well and it’ll pay off for you over time.



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quinlanmurray asked:


Omaha poker games (also called Omaha hold ‘em, Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) are variations of the world-famous Texas Hold ‘em games. The game has acquired millions of patrons worldwide, mainly because it is much easier to get into. In Omaha, the player gets to choose his cards from a set of 9 cards. This is the main difference between Omaha poker and its spiritual predecessor, Texas Hold ‘em poker. Different variants of Omaha poker exist, the most important ones being ‘high-low split’ and ‘8-or-better’.

In ‘high-low split’, the persons with the ‘high-hand’ (highest total of card values) and ‘low-hand’ (lowest total of card values) at the end of the game split the winnings. This variant has gained popularity among amateur players, because there is always double the chance of winning something.

In ‘8-or-better’ variant, the high-hand must contain cards of denominations 9 or higher, while the low-hand must contain cards with values of 8 or lower. This is why the game is called ‘8-or-better’. In this game, in case there are no qualifiers for low-hands, person holding the high-hand will walk away with the entire amount won. Even with this risk, the higher chance of winning at least half the spoils of victory lures many players to this game.

One can easily spot some differences between Omaha poker and Texas Hold ‘em games. These include,



Just like Texas Hold ‘em, if there are three or more ‘suitable’ cards on the board, a flush is possible. But unlike Texas Hold ‘em, a player will always need two cards of that ‘suitable’ type in his hand to play the flush. For instance, if there are three diamond cards on the board, the player with spades and hearts in his hand cannot win. He must have at least two diamond cards in his hand to win the game.





Two pair on the board would make a full house for a player with a single matching card in his hand in Texas Hold ‘em games. In Omaha, it is not so. Similarly, if there are three cards of a kind on board, a player must have two matching cards in his hand to make a full house.



These differences may make Omaha Poker (a tad confusing to new players, but otherwise, this game is actually simpler than Texas Hold ’em. The game is gaining popularity rapidly around the world and may soon gain just as much support as its predecessor.



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Michael Greens asked:


Start Playing Texas Hold’em

The “button” is used to indicate the dealer position, after each hand it moves one place to the left. Before any cards are dealt, the first player to the left of the dealer posts the “small blind”. The player to his left posts the “big blind.”

In a $2/$4 Texas Hold’em game, the “small blind” is $1, and the “big blind” is $2. Blind bets are live, real money bets, and when the betting comes round to them, they have the option of folding, checking, calling or raising.

Beginning with the small blind, each player receives two cards face down, one at a time, in a clockwise direction.

The player to the left of the “big blind” is first to act, he must either fold, bet the minimum bet, raise or check. The next player must either fold, call the current bet, raise, or check (if no bets have been made). This continues all round the table until all players have bet the same amount of money.

There can be 1 bet and 3 raises maximum in each round of Texas Hold’em betting.

The Flop:

After all bets are equal, 3 cards are simultaneously turned face up in the centre of the table; this is called the “flop”. There now follows a round of betting, starting with the player to the left of the dealer.

The Turn:

After betting is equal, the fourth communal card, the “turn”, is turned face up in the centre of the table. This is followed by a round of betting.

The River:

After betting is complete, the fifth and final communal card, the “river”, is turned face up in the centre of the table, alongside the previous four.

A final round of betting now follows. Once betting is finished the players show their best five card hand made from the 2 hole cards and the 5 communal cards. The first person to show their cards is the last person to bet or raise. The best hand wins the pot.

In limit Texas Hold’em poker, the lower limit is used for the first 2 rounds and the higher limit for the second 2 rounds