I have a hint for you at the very low stakes. Pay very special attention to the *BET SIZES*. You won't always know what hand you are opp has but you'll very often have idea when your beat.

Here are a few more....


1. Don't worry about getting bluffed. Fold when you are beat.


2. Value bet more and bluff less. Use small bet sizes to bluff, for value bets determine the value of your hand and bet that amount. When you have the nuts, go all in by the river. Do NOT slowplay big hands.


3. Consider going all in with AA. Not too long ago my all in was called by AK with ~250 BB. I won and doubled the max buy in. My opp was in disgusting miserable shape on this hand -- for mucho BBs. Let them make huge mistakes.


4. Consider min raising PF with speculative hands like small pairs, weak suited aces, suited connectors in late position or on the button.


5. Copy and past interesting hands to your word processor, then go over those hands. If you lost ask yourself if you could have lossed less and when you win ask yourself if you could have lost more. Also consider copy and pasting very large pots that other player are in, and hands where people go all in PF, etc.

Figure out answers to questions like, "when I have AK how many bb will I call when someone goes allin ?".


6. Don't pay any attention whatsoever to what you see on TV. TV poker, High Stakes poker and WPT are completely different poker than low stakes. Pros get more value from deceiving each other and those games all have antes which increases the pay off for bluffing.


7. Finally, for me, the most important thing to remember is what I call THINK TIME. When I'm acting too quickly I'm playing poorly. Take your time, think thru what you are doing. This is most especially true when you get raised, you are facing a big bet or you are thinking about going all in.


Take your time.