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It is not too difficult to find a free poker strategy source nowadays. There are plenty of poker sites providing you with a lot of information on any variant of poker you can just imagine. But the articles are pitifully mixed. When there is some classification it usually does not help too much as the division into Beginner/Intermediate/Professional is quite relative and even illogical. Plus there is a great number of sites which duplicate each other and sometimes it is almost impossible to find an article on a certain topics. So, we decided to improve the situation and created this Poker School.

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Knowing When to Fold in Limit Holdem

To win at the game of Texas Holdem a player needs to pick their spots and make the most of them. To play the game in this manner means that you’re going to have to lay down a number of hands. So under what circumstance should you fold your cards?

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Working With Mid-Range Pocket Pairs

Some things in the game of poker are self-evident. If you your pocket cards are a pair of 2s, you can be reasonably certain that this is a good time for a potty break or a trip to the drink cart. Conversely, if you find yourself holding a pair of Kings or Aces and don’t reflexively raise before the flop, you probably don’t belong at the poker table anyway. What can be confusing are those middle pairs that may show up in your hand.

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Should You Post Your Blind Immediately

When joining a game at a brick-and-mortar casino or its online cousin, the new player is given the burden of posting the Big Blind. Doing this immediately is not mandatory. The choice exists that the player may either pay the Big Blind now and participate immediately, or wait a few hands until it is their natural turn to post the Big Blind.

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Fighting for the Blinds Before the Flop

In the game of Texas Holdem we are conditioned to defend our blinds more strenuously than we may fight for other hands. It is, after all, your money sitting in the pot, right? Perhaps under this circumstance you would be more willing to play a hand that you would otherwise fold.

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The Power of Tells

When it comes to lying, the body and mind are not on the same page. Our minds find it very easy to be deceptive but the human body treats lying in the same manner that it would react to eating a chili pepper. In short, the mind is willing but the body is weak. This means that when somebody is bluffing, chances their body will somehow betray them and give off subtle clues that the player is not being truthful.

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The Wire Act

If you ever get into a debate about the legality of online gambling, the wire act is one of those facts that you are expected to know if you want to argue either side with any amount of credibility. The wire act is the little statute that everyone points to when they want to claim that online poker is illegal, and all of the pro-gambling folks are putting their own spins and adaptations on it so that they can justify their recreational activities.