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When you start playing poker for the first time you will probably not be the best player in town. Not to worry though, cause even though it might seem like a pretty easy game to master it really isn’t a game you can learn in a couple of hours.

Sure, you can learn the basics of the game but to truly understand the game you must be willing to dedicate more than a few hours into the game. And not only learn the theories of the game and learn things like pot odds and preflop odds but more deeply knowledges and of course things like poker rules.

Like how to play against a certain type of player or how to react when you’re two million outer misses on the river in the monster pot. A certain amount of poker knowledge you can only learn by sitting at the tables or in front of a computer for hours and more hours. Here you can get a certain feel for this wonderful game that no book or instruction video can ever teach you.

Another thing that you must learn if you are committing yourself into the game of poker is all the rules there are out there. And there are sure a lot of different rules that applies to the game. Even though you might think that you know all there is to know about Texas Hold’em, you probably don’t know as much about seven card stud or omaha high-low.

The easiest solution to this is of course to only play online poker. Here you don’t have to think about rules since the computer takes care of this for you. At many live games you can get help to since there is people that can help you out if you feel lost in the jungle of poker rules.

But since it doesn’t always feel good to always have to ask someone every time you feel confused it might be a good idea to learn some for yourself. And once you master the basic rules and feel confident about yourself you will find out that there are many unwritten rules that you have to find out about by yourself.

Slowplaying, if only used at the right time, can really help. It is actually also called as trapping or sandbagging and is the opposite type of bluffing. In slowplaying, you would make opponents believe that you do not have a winning hand when in fact you really have. The goal would be for you to make sure your opponents would continuously play and make bets to strengthen the pot.

Ideally, you should not slowplay too often most especially if you do not know how you can pull it off later part. For better results, only slowplay when you have great set of cards and are up against aggressive opponents.

If you have been playing the game Poker for some time now, then you are most likely aware that aggressive players are players who love to raise most especially in the early part of a game. They love to secure upper hand and give out money whatever set of cards they are holding. They do not care if they give away money for right reasons or not. Hence, they are typically a great source of income.

However, although it is more ideal to slowplay only when you are up against aggressive opponents, be sure that before you decide to slowplay you really have some great cards. It would be safer for you if they are cards that no one can beat, winning cards in short. However, nothing is sure when you are in a poker game. Thus, you must be always open to every possibilities and you must play cautiously.

Aside when up against aggressive players, you can also slowplay when the pot is bigger and other players are short-stacked and have the tendency to unwisely bet. But still you must be careful and make sure you have some great cards.