How do you maximise your wins at the cash game poker tables and dominate your opponents? Here are 6 tips that will get your game up to speed.
The most profitable poker for you to play at are going to be those that have as many losing players as possible. Think about it! Where does your profit come from in poker over the long term? Is it from players who are better than you or worse than you?
Of course, it’s from worse players, especially those who are big losers in the game (i.e., a 50bb/100 hands player is ideal. But a losing player of any level will help make a game profitable).
In cash games, you can leave a table at any time. So, if your table is full of regs or doesn’t have many juicy fish for you to prey on, stand up and find another table where you can be profitable.
As rake continues to increase in both live and online games, the biggest winners are going to stay afloat, while the smaller winners are going to turn into breakeven or losing players.
n poker, variance can be sickening. To accommodate for these swings, it’s incredibly important to follow proper bankroll management to ensure that you’ll never go broke. (This fact especially goes for No Limit Hold’em, where all the money that you have currently on the table could be in the pot, in an instant.)
If you’re a recreational player, keep 20 buy-ins at a minimum for whatever stake you play. For example, if you play $0.10/$0.25 games online with a buy-in of $25, you should have a minimum bankroll of $500 to be able to play this stake.
People say that position is everything in poker. This statement is true because when you have position on your opponents, you can always see how they act before you in each post-flop betting round.
This situation gives you the most information when it’s your turn to act. It also allows you to put maximum pressure on your opponents by forcing them to likely make mistakes out of position.
As a result, playing a poker hand when in position will yield you the highest profits. Therefore, the better position that you have in a poker hand, the broader range of hands you can play (by either opening yourself or flatting/3betting an opponent).
The further you are away from the button, the more you must tighten up your range of hands to make up for your lack of position (because you’ll need to make stronger hands to be able to win profitably when out of position).