5 Beginner Tips to Significantly Improve Your Poker Game

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By no means am I a good poker player, but I believe that these five tips that I follow have significantly improved my game. By understanding and implementing these tips, I believe that you’ll be able to improve your game too.

The five tips are…

1. Learn pot odds

2. Understand what ranges are and stop playing every hand

3. Pay attention to positioning

4. If you don’t know how to bluff, don’t.

5. Be rigid but flexible

1. Learn pot odds

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Let’s say some charges you $2 for a coin toss.

If it’s heads, you win $3.

If it’s tails, you lose.

If you were a rational person, you wouldn’t play this game because you would lose money on average.

Since the odds of it being heads or tails is 50%, then your expected payout would be as follows: