Here are the 20 best poker tips I can give you. I highly recommend that you learn and apply them, they will improve your poker game! Remember that experience and knowledge are vital in poker, the more you play the better you become.

1. Make sure that you know all the rules for the game you are playing, whether it be Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud Poker or one of the other popular versions.

2. Don’t get stressed if you loose, you should only ever play for money which you can afford to loose, and even the best players loose a hand every now and again.

3. Practice, Practice, Practice! Remember that you can always play for free in most poker rooms, try and find a poker room where they only give you a certain play bankroll per day, like Dream Poker, as this offers a more realistic game than the poker rooms which give you infinite play bankrolls.

4. Keep a careful eye on what your competitors do, and avoid bluffing too often.

5. Play as much as possible, hopefully you enjoy the game so this shouldn’t be an issue. The more you play the more sophisticated your game will become and hence the better you become.

6. Remember that the value of your hand will decrease the more players are sitting at a table. What I mean by this is that if you are sitting with a pair of Queen’s then that will be an ok hand at a table with 2 or 3 players but on a table with 8 players the chances are that someone else might have a pair of kings or better.

7. If you have a risky or poor hand then it is better to fold it at the start rather than the middle of the round, you should only go for risky hands if your bankroll is good and you are on a good sequence of wins and also if you know what you are doing.

8. Treat each hand as a new hand and forget the money you may have already won or lost.

9. If you are sitting with an unbeatable hand, don’t bet to heavy from the start, it is better to suck other players along and increase the betting after the turn or river card when people are already committed to the hand.

10. Don’t try to beat other players, instead let them try to beat you, in poker a more defensive strategy is often better than playing to aggressively.

11. Call an opponent if you think your hand is good enough to take the pot, don’t call just because you think he/she is bluffing.

12. When you are learning to play don’t try to bluff other players when you have poor cards, this really is advanced poker and you need to know exactly what you are doing and when to do it.

13. You must expect and accept loosing the pot if you don’t think you have the best hand on the table.

14. When you have lost a lot of hands in a row it is important to stay cool and not panic. Having a loosing streak is something that happens to all players sooner or later, the best thing to do is walk away from the table, calm down and go to another table where they don’t know you. A player who appears desperate to earn back his lost money is an easy target for an experienced poker player who will exploit your desperation and cause you to loose even more money.

15. If you have a sure-fire hand raise the pot but not until after the turn card, this way you force the other players to call to see your hand and thereby increase your winnings.

16. Mix up your playing style in terms of defensive and aggressive, this keeps the other players on their toes, the biggest mistake is to become predictable in your playing style, this will make you easy pickings for an experienced poker player.

17. If you are playing with friends on a real table try to maintain a poker face at all times, i.e. don’t show any emotions whether you have a good hand or a poor one, even if you win the pot don’t show too much emotion. Obviously this is not so important in online poker but here only use the chat function if you want to make other players believe you are better or worse than you really are as a kind of extra bluff, be careful with this though.

18. Never ever trust another poker player at your table. Remember that their motivation is to beat you, as yours is to beat them, and anything they tell you will very likely be a misdirection. Focus on your own cards and the options available to you and your opponents.

19. I can’t stress this next point enough, CHOOSE A QUALITY POKER ROOM!! The poker rooms that we list are all good quality but there are unfortunately a lot of shady ones out there as well.

20. When you are playing poker eliminate all other distractions, poker is a complex game and requires your full attention if you are to become a good player who can read your opponents moves.