Tips Nr:1 - Know the odds. This involves simple Math and can be the difference between winning and losing.

Tips Nr:2 - Never play in a game or hand you cannot afford to be in (one of the best money saving tips)!!

Tips Nr:3 - Always change your playing style. Switching habits and patterns will disguise your cards from other poker players.

Tips Nr:4 - Try and think like your opponent play with understanding, do not be blinded by ego or competitiveness.

Tips Nr:5 - Memorize the Hand Rankings one of the most over looked tips. Full House beats a straight, and a flush, but not a straight flush!

Online Poker Terminology

Hands:

AA - Bullets, Rockets, the Nuts
22 - ducks
95 - Dolly Parton
88 - Snowmen
KK - Cowboys
QQ - Ladies
10 3 - Brunson

I know there are more hands but thought I would leave room for you to post them.

Terminology:

Action - Opportunity to act on your cards

Backdoor - Catching both the turn and river card to make a drawing hand.

Blind - Forced bet

Buy - To bluff hoping to “buy” the pot without being called

Caling Station - A weak passive player who calls a lot but doesn’t raise or fold much. The kind of player you like to have in your game.

Cap - To put in the last raise permitted on a betting round, usual only in limit games

Draw Dead - Try to make a hand that, even if made, will not win the pot

Family Pot - A pot in which all (or almost all) of the players call before the flop

Here are represented some opinions about Stud strategy from Gambling forum.

1. First three cards (2 down 1 up) you need to look at whether you have a pair, a possible straight or a potential flush. One of the ways of doing that is looking to see the up cards of everyone around the table. Look to see how many of your “necessary cards” are already gone. From that you will know whether to call or fold.

2. Next you want to watch what is coming down on 4th and 5th streets. Are they the cards you need. Are most of your cards to make a great hand gone already or not. If they are then fold.

3. If by 5th street you don’t have a made hand then you are just plain gambling that what you do have will stand up.

These are probably the best three points I can give you at this time. If you want more I can put more in. But try playing the game using this guideline to start with and see if that helps.

Actually 7 Card and 5 Card Stud are probably the easiest games to learn because you do not have any community cards. You are strictly playing your cards against the other opponents cards.

What makes it easy is that you get to see at least 4 of their cards to compare against your cards. This gives you something to measure your hand by and if you don’t have a hand by 4th street and someone is betting and showing and Ace and a King then you can be sure that they have possibly doubled up on one of them. However, if by 4th Street you have a 4 cards str8 and are drawing to and outside str8 then it is worth seeing 5th Street. If it doesn’t happen for you then and the big bettor is coming out big again… Then unless you really want to gamble at this point on the drawing of the right card you must fold in the face of adversity.

That was one of the first games I learned and I still love 7-stud. When you are learning it is really nice to see what each person could have by what is “up”. You can also compare - if there is a player who is ahowing a potential straight flush, and you can see that another player has the fill card then you know you are ok if you have the nut flush. So that does make it easier if you pay attention.

1) Play good starting hands.
Only play hands like AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, AK, Aqs until you get comfortable playing the rest. They are easier to play and don’t get you into as much trouble as the KJ, KQ etc.

2) Play within your bankroll.
Do not take shots, play in games you are comfortable playing in. I remember when I started I played 5-10 NL one time with only 2k in my account. I was super scared, won a pot and left but I easily could have lost. I definitely was not comfortable in that game. Even today I play 1-2 and 2-4 NL and PLO sometimes because I feel super comfortable in them.

3) Do not tilt.
I cannot stress this enough, I believe mental stability is paramount while playing poker, especially no limit holdem. The ones with the clearest minds will definitely prevail over the long run. That’s what I accredit most of my success to.

4) Learn all the games.
I did this when I started out, if there were no good no limit games but a really good mixed game I would play the mixed game because I knew how. It gives you a chance to take a soft spot and exploit it, something most NL players are not capable of. I like HORSE and I think that’s a good place for people to start.

5) Don’t riffle chips if you are new.
If you don’t know how to riffle chips in a live casino, don’t try to do it while you play. It’s hard enough concentrating on everything going on but if I see you riffling your chips and not knowing how, I’m gonna know you do not know how to play this game very well and probably play a lot of pots with you.