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- Be selective with what starting hands you play, play the premium hands mostly. In a normal game your seen flop percentage should be 20-30%
- Get used to let hands go, not folding marginal hands that might seem doubtful should be easy. Trust your intuition.
- Table selection is important. Choose the games where you are better than your opponents. That is how most players win easy money.
- In no limit and pot limit games a player should respect big bets and raises, they are seldom bluffs.
- Play when you are having a good time and are not bored. If the game is good and your opponents and really bad so stay in the game. Leave is you are tired and feel you play bad poker.
- Don't use alcohol when playing serious. It's ok in a social game with friends but not otherwise. It will make you loose judgment and distract focus.
- A player must afford to lose at the levels they play, if a player risks all his money in one session they play too high. That is called to be playing with scared money and will most of the times end with the player loosing all the money.
- It is better to raise than to call in many situations. For example in draw situations where you can win the pot right away by raising out your opponents with a hand you would not otherwise have won with.
- It is a mistake to not raise before the flop with the best hands. You risk your opponents to get in the pot cheap with weak hands and outdraw you later.
Also with best hands you still have the best chance to win the pot so try to build a big pot from the beginning.
- Learn from your mistakes. If you have experienced a bad period try to understand what has happened and analyze the reasons for you losses. It will improve your game quicker and you will have more experience that way.