A lot of the
content on this website is heavy reading for the beginner who doesn't yet
have the basics of poker down. This is intentional: becoming a solid
winner at poker requires a lot of studying and experience. If you
want to delude yourself into thinking you can instantly become a big
winner at poker by looking a chart of starting hands for hold 'em, or by
playing a simple memorized strategy, that's your choice. Not only is
this plan not profitable, it is very boring to always do what someone else
tells you. (Don't we play poker to have fun?) But the
dedicated players, who study hard and use experience as their guide, are
able to develop their own unique style of play and win big at the tables.
However, there
are some characteristics that all winning poker players share, regardless
of their style. You will find these in