Want to learn how to play poker with the best of them and make
yourself a nice profi t into the bargain? You’ve come to the right place…

Welcome to the fi rst of our three colourcoded strategy sections. Here we’ll teach you the very basics of the game and give you all the skills you need to make the move to competitive real-money play.

First off you’ll learn the rules of Texas hold’em, as well as some basic strategies for beating it.

From there, we’ll take you through the most popular betting variants – limit, pot limit and no limit – and give you an insight into some key concepts such as position and hand selection. By the way, online play is usually in dollars, so it’s this currency that features throughout this book. Read on and some of them could soon be coming your way…