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This
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Poker variant is, without a doubt, the most popular poker
‘breed’ ever. Its name a clear indication, it originates from Texas and
was probably first played in around 1900. It was supposedly brought over
to Las Vegas, Nevada, by a bunch of Texan gamblers (the likes of Amarillo
Slim and Doyle Brunson) and popularized via the Golden Nugget
Casino.
When the Dune Casino took over the nurturing of this relatively young
poker genre in 1969, its popularity exploded as it offered excellent
grounds for pros to take advantage of the huge influx of fish the casino
provided. The game really took off to world fame when the Binion’s
Horseshoe accepted it as it’s main event for the - now world famous -
World Series of Poker.
The game itself is played with a 52 card deck and as such, it allows for
22 players at a table, (or 23 if they decide not to use burncards).It is a
positional game as the dealer’s position (known as the ‘button’) remains
fixed and it moves in a clockwise direction around the table with one
position after every played hand.
What I didn’t yet mention, is the psychology-aspect of the game and all
the different strategies it can involve. Keeping all these in sight you’ll
soon realize it is in fact a game of an overwhelming complexity.
As far as basic poker strategy goes, experts recommend the
tight-aggressive approach, preaching that that is the ‘sound’ way to play
poker. In order for you to understand what tight and aggressive is first
of all we need to put a few poker-concepts behind us:
According to how many hands they get in on, players are classified into
tight and loose players. A tight player folds often and only plays a few
solid hands, a loose player, on the other hand, attempts to see at least
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Based on their betting-approach players are classified into passive and
aggressive. A passive player calls a lot and never raises (these players
are also known as ‘calling stations’) an aggressive player raises and
checkraises all the time to make the others suffer.
No limit Holdem is what they play in the WSOP and WPT main events, where
basically any amount of raise is accepted at any time during a hand. Often
players go all in, (betting all their chips) and thus the game becomes
rather spectacular, though it’s not something I’d recommend for beginners. .
In Pot Limit Holdem players may only raise the amount of the current pot,
so things are a lot less likely to get out of hand.
In fixed Limit Holdem there’s an actual pre-determined limit to the raises
people can make during the game.
In the relatively recently developed online poker world Texas Holdem is
also the most popular of the bunch. Though most poker rooms offer Omaha
Hi-Lo and other poker games as well, Texas Holdem is the one players flock
to.
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