Not all strategies for Texas Hold Em actually work. It sucks right? Don’t be tricked into using a failed strategy. Find out the ones to avoid.

No matter how experienced you are at playing Holdem poker, you, like me, always have a thing or two to learn. And the fact that you are reading this means that you are very likely to become a successful poker player. The bad thing is not all strategies for Texas Hold Em are actually successful. So you need to avoid the bad ones like the plague.

As you read these strategies you will start to become more aware of some of the small mistakes you are already making in your game. And that’s great because when you realise the things you’re doing wrong you can start to fix them up and can immediately become a better poker player.

You’ve finally made it! You’ve played Texas Hold’em for hours and hours, dodged some scary all ins, caught a couple of breaks and now you are sitting at the final table playing heads up poker. Once the joy of making the final table has subsided you will have to get down to business and stake out your opponent. Hopefully by now you have got a good read on the player, their tendencies, strengths and weaknesses. However, it may be important to know that poker players often switch modes when it comes down to heads up play. A poker players heads up play may be completely different than their regular play. Here are some tips to help you improve your heads up Texas Hold’em poker strategy.

Tip#1 – An Ace in the Hole

There are plenty of people who make a living playing online poker professional, some of these are even as young as 18 or 19.  Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, who is currently a sponsored professional poker player for Full Tilt Poker is only 22 and already has a poker bankroll worth over million in online poker.

However while it is true you can make money playing online poker using the correct strategy and technique in addition to maths, all of this is pointless unless you apply sensible poker bankroll management to your game.

Poker bankroll management means limiting how much of your total bankroll you risk at any one time, as well as choosing the right stakes games to play. Conservatively, if you’re playing cash games you should never risk more than 5% of your total bankroll at any one time.  This allows you to lose a few buy-ins (up to 20 in fact) without damaging your bankroll or making you go bust early.  You have to realise that poker is a game of luck, and while you can play with +EV (expected value) and expect to win money in the long run playing perfectly and reading a plethora of poker strategy books and articles, in the short-term you are always going to face variance and downswings.