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Some people say that Texas Hold'em is a game of luck, but there are in fact a number of strategies employed by its best players. Knowing how to bet, reading your opponent, and knowing which cards to play are all very important to successfully playing this game. Also calculating odds, and knowing the percentages, will give you an advantage.

Steps

1. Learn which starting hands are statistically favoured to profit in the long run so when you are dealt cards, you only play the hands with a positive expected value.
   
2. Learn how to bet against the people you play regularly so that you can get the most chips out of a pot. Pay attention to their playing styles and habits.
   
3. Make sure to raise when you believe you have the best hand. If you play no-limit, make your raise a sufficient size to chase away drawing hands that could end up beating yours.
   
4. Learn to calculate odds. There are some very easy methods that require little math skills. You can learn to safely call bets on a hand that is favored to lose if the pot is large enough. Learning your pot odds will enable you to call or fold at the right times, earning much more profit in the long run.
   
5. Take notice of your position to the dealer button. Try to minimize to play hand out of position (positions just after the button) and try to maximize your hand on the button, and before it. The small blind is the worst and the button is the best position.
   
6. Read! There are several sites and forums dedicated to poker strategy, and amazing amounts of books and magazines on the subject of gameplay.
   
7. When first starting out, it is advisable to adopt a tight-aggressive strategy until you understand the game mechanics. You can make a profit at lower limit games by simply playing the strongest hands from the best positions, and either raising when your hand is strong or folding if you feel it is beaten.
   
8. If you induce a bluff, make sure the "story" you tell is right. Imagine that you have the best hand and try to bet that way. If you pre-flop raise, you opponents most likely assume you have high cards like A-A, A-k, A-Q or A-J, if the flop comes, and you pre-flop raised and the flop is showing some high cards, you should bet because you need others to believe that you have high cards, if the flop doesn't show, high cards, you shouldn't raise because then is your story incorrect and other players will know that you were bluffing the pre-flop raise, and you will most likely get dominated by better hands, you should then check instead.
   

Tips

• Chasing for cards is a risky move.
  
• Don't play too loose or you will lose your chips.
  
• Don't be afraid to take a risk if the outcome shows reward.
  
• Don't give away information about your cards by shaking or other movements.
  
• Playing a hand the "correct" way is more important than winning the pot. In the long run, correct play will be far more profitable than a single win.
  
• The most important stat of any poker player is their BB/100, or Big Blinds per hundred hands. The higher this number the better the player, in Limit, 2 is very good, in No-Limit, 4 and higher is good. To maximize your BB/100, make sure you are making full advantage of all bonuses and rakeback opportunities you can, it can turn a break even or losing player into a profitable one.