This guide will teach you the basics in a number of small, interactive steps. The best way for beginners to start to the game is to master Texas Hold'em. Over the past 10 years this has become the most popular form of poker in the world. Poker is a game of your best five cards whatever version you play. There is a lot more to Texas Hold'em poker than the basic rules an d getting great cards. So at this early stage, you'll get a better investment out of your playing time if you bet low, take some losses and concentrate on learning the poker strategies of your opponents rather than on winning each hand. Bluff at your own risk. Use some common. Poker Starting Hands is where players become fish, simply by not having the ability to fold weak hands before the flop. Here's our Starting Hand Strategy showing which hands to play and which to just throw away.

This is a Texas Hold'em stratgy guide for beginners. The same topics are covered inthe main strategy section, although all of the articles here are unique. This guide covers basic winning Hold'em strategy.

So here it is, a one-stop Texas Hold'em guide for the essentials of winning money from Hold'em. There are thousands of strategy articles and guides out there for you to learn from, but below is a selection of the most important Texas Hold'em strategy articles for you to get your teeth into.

If you can grasp a solid understanding of the strategy provided below, you will have a better understanding of the game than 90% of poker players. If you are better than 90% of poker players, you will be able to win money from Texas Hold'em. Easy.

Texas Hold'em articles guide.

Basic Strategy

Further Strategy

Fresh Texas Hold'em.

This Texas Hold'em guide used to be on the old FreshTexasHold'em.com site, which was a smaller site I made that focused on training beginner players with a unique/awesome writing style. All that has happened is that I have picked up all of the strategy articles from that site and placed them on here.

So if you were wondering what the hell happened to FreshTexasHold'em, now you know. It's just got a new home.

Who is this Texas Hold'em guide useful for?

I'm confident that all amateur players will be well on their way to winning money from Texas Hold'em after thoroughly reading through this section. I'm not going to brag, but the articles above strike the perfect balance between entertainment and education.

All new players will benefit from this Texas Hold'em guide. Fact.

You can find similar articles in the main strategy area of this site, but they have a more formal writing style. Furthermore, the articles have not been laid out in so much of a step-by-step or guide-like fashion, so you know where to start and where you are going to up in this Texas Hold'em guide.

Where do I go from here?

If you've absorbed all of the information from this guide and you are looking for more specific and/or advanced strategy, I'd highly recommend you head to the Texas Hold'em strategy section. There are more specific articles there for you to choose from, which should help you to refine the finer aspects of your game.

I will also strongly recommend that you look to invest in some tracking software from the poker software page. As a developing player, this software will prove to be invaluable to you later on down the line. It will help you to fix any leaks in your game and help you to track your progress.

Poker room guide.

Quick Poker Rules

If you're after more of a guide to online poker rooms and advice on where to play, you should check out the poker rooms section of this site. Alternatively, my friend Adam at OnlinePokerEd.com runs a pretty cool poker guide that has a bunch of information and reviews on many of the top online poker rooms. It's definitely worth a look.

Requirements

Poker Hand Simulator is a Java-program, so you need to have Java Runtime Environment (version 1.6 or greater) installed on your computer to use the program. You can download the Java Runtime Environment at http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp.

Running the program

You can run the program from the command line using the following command:

java -jar Poker_hand_simulator.jar

To open the command prompt in Windows, go to the Start menu run the program Command prompt. Go to the directory where you downloaded the program using the command cd, and then run the command above.

When the program is run, you might see a dialog saying that the saved settings could not be loaded. Just press OK, and the program will create a new settings-file for you and save it when you exit the program.

Starting a simulation

When the program is started, you can begin a new simulation clicking on the Start new simulation-button in the upper right corner of the window.

A new window will open where you can select parameters for the simulation.

• Game type: The type of poker game to simulate.
• Number of hands: The number of starting hands included in the simulation.
• Number of simulations: The number of times the simulation is run, i.e. the number of times a new deck is generated and cards are dealt to the hands (and to the board, if applicable). A larger number means the simulation takes longer but gives more accurate results.

When you press the OK-button, the Simulation starter-window opens. Under the section Available cards you can select what cards to add to each starting hand. The cards available are visible in the upper left section of the window.

To select a card, just click it with the left mouse button, and it will be selected and turn grey. To deselect a card, click on it again.

The button Unselect all will unselect all cards in the Available cards-section, but will not remove cards already added to a hand or the board.

To add cards to a hand, press the Add-button below the hand (circled in red in the picture above). You can clear all cards from a hand by pressing the Clear-button below the hand.

When you are done adding cards to the hands and the board, press the button Start simulation in the lower right corner (circled in red in the image below).

After the Start simulation-button is pressed, the program will simulate the hand. This should take at most a few seconds if you've used the default number of simulations (10000). More simulations increase the computational time linearly.

When the simulation is completed, the results will be visible in the main window.

The Win, Loss and Tie-columns show how often the hand in question will win, lose and tie in the situation specified. The Equity-column shows what the pot equity of the hand is.

Poker Hands Order

Modifying settings

To modify the settings for the program, open the Main-menu in the upper left corner of the main window and click Settings (red arrow in the image below)

A new window will open where you can modify the settings.

• Number of threads to use: How many threads to use simultaneously when running a simulation. If your processor has more than one core, you can speed up the simulation significantly by using multiple threads. To enable maximum simulation speed, use as many threads as your processor has cores, i.e. if you have a dual-core processor, use two threads, and if you have a quad-core processor, use four threads.
• Number of digits in result: Results from a simulation are rounded to this many significant numbers. Note that high selections don't actually increase the accuracy of the result if you don't at the same time increase the number of simulations.
• Default number of simulations: The default number of simulations that is suggested when starting a new simulation
• Show minor error messages: Show pop-ups for errors when adding too many cards to a hand or the board. If this is not selected, the program will just ignore your command when you add too many cards.

To accept the new settings, press OK.

Text user interface

A text user interface is also available. To start the text user interface, run the jar-file with the command-line switch -text:

java -jar Poker_hand_simulator.jar -text

External poker links

Beginners Guide To Poker

If you are unfamiliar with poker rules or the rules for specific games, the Wikipedia-links below should help.