Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro

On any given night, thousands of players are playing Texas Holdem poker for real money on the Internet. This poker book is an excellent tool for players at all levels to be successful at limit Texas Holdem poker with general poker strategy concepts and Texas Hold'em poker tips focused on Internet play.

A comprehensive overview of Texas Holdem poker tips is presented including general Texas Hold'em strategy and concepts such as probability and odds, bluffing, raising and check-raising. Various Texas Holdem deceptive tactics are also discussed such as free cards, slowplaying, and inducing bluffs and calls. You'll learn the correct Texas Holdem strategy for starting hand play as well as playing on the flop, turn, and river. You'll learn the intricacies of playing Texas Holdem poker on the Internet and differences in Texas Hold'em strategy between Internet and live play. Finally, you'll be able to practice all of these Texas Holdem poker tips and poker strategies on over 200 actual Internet hands.

Guest columnist Lou Krieger is author of many books on poker as well as the host of Royal Vegas Poker.  Is there a writer who ever played this game and hasn’t observed that poker’s a metaphor for life? A metaphor for life! If true, there should be important life lessons everyone can take away from the poker table -- lessons which once learned and applied -- ought to make it much easier for a poker player to survive in a world where the majority of people haven’t learned these advanced lessons for living.

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Guest columnist Lou Krieger provides some pointers on how to improve your game.  Lou is the host of Royal Vegas Poker and author of numerous books on poker including The Poker Player's Bible and < em> Hold'em Excellence .

Do you want to become a better poker player? Read on.Here are six things you can take to heart, and every one of them will improve your game.

This column was jointly written with Kathy Watterson, my coauthor on “Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games.” Some of the material in this column will be found in that book, although it will appear in a somewhat different form.

If you’ve wondered about whether playing poker on the Internet is for you -- whether in play money games just for practice, in learning environments such as Poker School Online, or for real money in cyber casinos -- but you just haven’t gotten around to it yet, this piece should be spot on. We’re going to answer most of the frequent questions we’ve encountered about playing poker online with facts, and with as little spin as we can muster.

This is the first article in a series to be coming over the next several months from Lou Krieger. This article looks at important poker concepts essential to the beginning player. Kathy Watterson, who is my coauthor “Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games,” coauthored this article with me. Some of this material appears in that book, though in a somewhat different form. This piece is aimed at beginning poker players, particularly newcomers to “brick and mortar” and online casino poker, or those who might have been playing for a while, but never stopped to think about what it takes to become a winning poker player.

selected as the Article of the Month, February 2007
The contest articles can also be viewed at the Internet Texas Holdem Forum

Turbos have taken off lately due to their reputation as a quick and exciting way to play tournament poker. In this two-part article, I’ll explain how to adapt your game as you move through the blind levels of a Turbo SNG. The first part will explore early and middle play, and the second part will focus on bubble and heads-up play. My SNG of choice is the Stars NL 2-Table Turbo, so the blind levels illustrated below directly correspond to it.

Those who have seen Phil Helmuth play will know that he loves to put someone on an exact hand, although experience shows that he usually puts you on a pair of eights. Is it possible though? Sure it is. Are we going to show you how? Sure we are (well we'll try to anyway).

Have you ever found that sometimes you start tournaments well and in others you just can't get 'tuned in'? Sometimes you make finals but when the money counts you make mistakes and have difficulty focusing? What should you do about it?

This monthly column recaps the large online events, and shares information on freeroll tournaments, satellites to WPT and WSOP events, and high buy-in online events. This month, read about an ITH member's big win, a $1000 online tournament, and big tournaments in Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Atlantic City, and the Bahamas.