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No-Limit Texas Hold'em Low Stakes Strategy


The key to this strategy is to minimise your own mistakes. Other players make enough mistakes that you do not need to capitalise on every one if you are good enough to do this then fine, but personally, despite being a consistent winning player, I know I am not this good. That does not stop me making money!

 

The way to capitalise on other peoples mistakes is to look for cheap flops with hands that will, when they hit, make a set or above so that you can call big bets and bluffs with a decent degree of confidence. Of course you won’t win every time, but you should be able to count the losses from memory at the end of every session and you hope that most of these were Bad Beats and not Mistakes.

 

As stated above, this is a starting point. If you feel that you have a read on an opponent such that you can make a call or a bluff that isn’t covered in this strategy, go ahead and do it. Just keep track of whether you were right or wrong and if you are wrong, be honest and record this as a Mistake. As you get better, you will undoubtedly find yourself adding plays, especially bluffs where you represent a strong hand you do not have – a side effect of always turning over a winning hand at showdowns is that people start to expect you to have big hands.

 

If you play this strategy right, players will start saying to you, “You always get lucky when it’s a big pot.” But you know its not luck, its choice. You only get involved in big pots when you are confident you are going to win them.

 

Finally, a piece of advice that is frequently found elsewhere, you should always buy-in for the table maximum. You aren’t going to make a mistake for your whole stack, but you want the maximum profit when someone else does.

 

 

Top 10 Starting Hand Requirements

1. A-A

2. K-K

3. Q-Q

4. A-K suited

5. J-J

6. 10-10

7. 9-9

8. 8-8

9. A-Q suited

10. 7-7

These 10 hands should be the only pocket cards played by the beginner in low limit Texas Hold 'em. This makes the game much simpler before the flop, however, as you can probably guess, the tricks of how to play these 10 hands after the flop can get complicated.

As a general rule though, bet these top 10 hands aggressively. The higher in the ranking, the more aggressively they should be played. Your strategy after the flop will be determined by what hits the board and the actions of your opponents.

Play these top 10 right in low limit Hold 'em games and you will make money. As you build your bankroll and your confidence, you can increase your starting hand requirements.