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Hands range by position

There’s a strict connection between position at the table and playable ranges and one of the most common mistakes between rookies is playing considering only the strength of the hand rather than including into the thinking process also an evaluation of the position at...

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Delayed continuation bet

In the previous articles it has been discussed the basic strategy for a successful cbet and the opportunities within a double barrel on the flop and cbet on the turn. The last topic yet to be covered is an advanced strategy regarding when to delay the continuation...

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Continuation bet on the turn

In our previous article it has been already explored the art of the continuation bet. For a quick recap, a continuation bet is a bet made on the flop after having already put pressure on your opponent preflop. It can be executed either in bluff or for value, depending...

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Squeeze play

An interesting weapon to have in your poker arsenal is the squeeze play, an aggressive move that will enhance your imagine at the table, making you being considered an even aggressive player. What’s a squeeze play? A squeeze play is a move that you execute when a...

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What’s success in poker?

Plenty of times you can find yourself wondering how’s your poker career going and where you should be in 1 year from now to consider yourself as a long term winning player. Before answering this question, which is fairly difficult to approach, let’s go back to basics...

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How to beat weak players in heads up

You have played an excellent tournament and now it’s time to get the most out of it and win the 1st placement prize. Between you and the crown there’s only a small set up: your opponent. If you are playing against a strong player, everything gets more complicated on...

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How to win big in poker freeroll

As we have seen in the analysis of the Indian poker rooms, all of them do offer freerolls to incentivize players to signup and start to build a bankroll out of nothing. Freeroll are indeed free money offered by the poker rooms and if you have the right attitude...

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Level up!

Reaching the higher stakes is the dream for both poker enthusiasts and pro-wanna be. The action and the thrills you can get playing larger amount of money, with the plan to win bigger of course, are widely desired, but can you handle the pressure? Let’s see some...

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Play monster hands preflop

Nothing comes better in poker rather than calling an all in with pocket Aces. Playing monster hands preflop is pretty straightforward and highly remunerative, but sadly you can’t do that all the time and even more sadly, it might as well happen that you do no end up...

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Best online poker room in India

POKERSTARS

Everybody knows PokerStars. It’s the biggest and most famous poker website worldwide and now you can join the party and give a shot to the best tournaments ever scheduled.

Since April 2018 and following the regulation of the Indian online poker system, it opened its gates to the Indian players and it promises to deliver the best experience possible to poker enthusiasts.

THE SPARTAN POKER

TheSpartanPoker feels like home for Indian poker players. It’s good to know that there’s a place made by Indian people for Indian people where to play one of the best poker experience possible. As soon as the Country started to show interests in online poker, TheSpartanPoker applied for license and started to deliver a clean, smooth and entertaining poker journey to all the enthusiast around.

ADDA52

Adda52.com is one of the most known indian poker website and, as their mantra states, “go play” is their easy approach with online poker games.

Founded in 2011 it can count nowadays on over 1,000,000 players and it’s surely a solid rock in the Indian online games scene.

Is Online Poker Legal in India?

Yes. It is 100% legal and safe if you live in Goa, Sikkim, Daman and Nagaland regions. On a general picture, India is not the most friendly country when it comes to talk about heavy gambling, but online poker enthusiasts are safe to play on licensed Indian websites and the whole country is slowly moving ahead to find a common licenses’ system.

The Supreme Court stated that games “based on skill rather than luck” are not illegal.

Following this ruling playing online skill games like Rummy and Poker is clear as long as the websites providing the services have obtained a regular license for operating in India or at least in some of its regions.

Casino and some types of poker games such as cash game are, with the current regulation, not allowed, while sports betting, daily fantasy sports and mostly poker tournaments – sit and go and multi table – are spreading thanks to new opening by international major websites

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Let’s Learn Poker Rules

Poker is easy to learn, but hard to master. Poker Strategies are straightforward but every hand has its story to tell and can make or break your tournament.

What we are about to learn here is how an online poker game usually runs, which are the options a poker player has every hand step by step and the value of the cards and points that determines who’s taking the chips home and who’s leaving empty handed.

HOW TO PLAY POKER?
The deck is a full one, 52 cards, but how many people join an online poker game? It depends on the game mode but the most commons consider:

  • 2 people (one vs one), also called heads-up
  • 6 people, also called short handed table or 6-max
  • 9/10 people, regular full ring table
HOW DOES A GAME START?
Assuming we are playing a regular 9 people table, each player receives a card and the one who got the higher face value will be the “dealer”. The two players sat on the left of the dealer will be the “small blind” and the “big blind.” Blinds are mandatory and the amount is always fixed; the small blind will always be half of the value of the big blind.
POKER HAND RANKING
  1. Royal Flush An ace-high straight flush
  2. Straight Flush Five cards of the same suit ranked sequentially in order
  3. Four-of-a-Kind Four cards of the same numerical value
  4. Full House Three cards of the same numerical rank combined with two other cards of the same numerical rank
  5. Flush Five cards of the same suit
  6. Straight Five cards ranked sequentially in order regardless of suit
  7. Three-of-a-kind Three cards of the same numerical rank
  8. Two Pair Two cards of the same numerical rank and two other cards of the same numerical rank
  9. Pair Two cards of the same numerical rank
  10. High Card The card with the higher numerical value e.g. A high
HOW TO MAKE A POKER HAND?
The winner will be the player with the highest score using one or both his hole cards, in combination with the 5 community cards on the board. After the first player revealed his hand, the second one can muck, which means toss his hand away and concede the pot, or reveal his hand and claim the pot with an higher score.
HOW TO WIN AT POKER?
Playing poker is pretty simple. It’s just a sequel of actions and reactions, based on the strength of the hand hold by the players involved. Check, bet, call or raise will be soon part of your skills, among many other aspects, but for now just focus on these three points:

  • the hand starts when all the players have the cards and they begin the preflop actions (fold, bet or raise)
  • postflop action is split between flop, turn and river
  • there are two ways for winning: either showing the highest score or betting and force your opponents to fold

Now that we made clear how a poker game works, we can move ahead and dig deeper in the poker strategy.