Planning to Play Some Texas Holdem

After reading around bwin.com and in particular the page https://poker.bwin.com/poker.aspx?content=texasholdem I realised that I had not really played poker with any sort of regularity for quite some time. So I brushed up on my skills thanks to the bwin poker school. After reading the material on the poker school page I felt I was ready to re-emerge onto the poker tables.

Texas Hold ‘em is known as the Cadillac of poker; it takes a moment to learn and a lifetime to master. I bet you have heard that before, but it really is true. One of the quickest emerging markets in the world at the moment is Australia and lots of Aussie poker players are finding their home at bwin.com. I pointed this out to one of my friends that said there was no point in playing poker because there were no new players coming into the game that he could beat. He suggested I should wake up very early in the morning to play them and I might just do that.

There are lots of new players coming onto bwin.com to play poker but you need to sign up quickly because they have the help at hand to improve via the bwin.com poker school tuition. At bwin.com there is even an EV calculator so you can analyse the real strength of certain hands against a certain amount of players in any position. Running a few hands through this calculator will really help you improve in the fundamental math that lies behind every hand and every decision you make. I plan on running a few hands through this calculator as I play more poker and seeing if my knowledge of when to play a hand hard is correct. If your math is right, your profits tend to follow over time because the math never lies.

It is important to have a structure and plan to your poker playing. I have found this incredibly important for me personally and I am sure others feel the same. I want to know the time spent in front of the computer is worthwhile which is why I would advocate playing in an office setting or in a particular timetabled way so you feel this is “your job” for this time. If you simply play every so often you can feel removed from the world and a little isolated. Poker is something that demands full concentration and when I am thinking about what I am not doing whilst sitting at the poker table this makes me play less than optimal poker strategy and is probably a major reason why I have not done a lot better at the cash game tables.

I have made most of the big decisions. I will play at bwin.com over four tables for a minimum of two hours per day and a maximum of three hours. I use poker tracker for my stats which automatically stores my hand histories for me to agonise over later and eliminate the errors that I will make in the beginning. I have a thirty unit bankroll and will drop down in limits if I get to less than twenty buy-ins and I will move up in limits when I get to 25 buy-ins for the next level up, again moving down if my taking a shot fails by five buy-ins. This seems sensible. I have no stop loss in mind but if I feel I am playing really badly I will stop playing, but I will push myself to do the two hours where possible.

Wish me luck! I will report on my website and in these articles how I am getting on. You will have some interesting and self-deprecating and some self-rewarding hand history articles to look forward to on this site as my challenge progresses.

By Malcolm Clarke

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