3 Ways To Impress Your Poker Friends.

(Warning: The following tips are likely to cause severe losses to your bankroll during Poker sessions. However, you will look damn good in the process. )

For some, Texas Hold'em Poker is all about getting the better of your opponents and winning money. However, that's an old school way of playing.

To be a great Hold'em Poker player these days, you need to go out of your way to play in style, so that your opponents and friends know that you mean business. As long as you look good, nobody is going to care about how much money you might be winning or losing.

Use these quick tips to help you become the star of the Texas Hold'em table, wherever you decide to play.

Use lots of flashy plays

Check raises
Randomly large bets
Min raises
Ridiculous calls

These sort of plays are key in the game of Texas Hold'em Poker.

If you want to look good, you have to play like you have no idea of what's going on at the table. It's the ultimate deception.

The wilder and borderline foolish you can be with your plays, the more respect you are going to be able to command at the table. Checking and betting is for the weak. How about mixing it all together into one obscene manoeuvre to create the mother of all plays?

Learn chip tricks

It's not about how much you bet or when, it's how you play with your chips in between.
Nothing screams inexperience louder than a Poker player that is not twirling chips in between making decisions. These players are simply looking to get run over by all of the other guys at the table.

Stand your ground and learn how to do the butterfly with your chips. When the other players see this, they will think twice about continuation betting the next time you are in a pot with them. Everyone knows that the best way to defend against an aggressive player is to do a knuckle roll.

Explain your actions at the end of each hand

Did your opponent have a better hand? Let everyone know that you were aware that they had you beat before you made the call.

Did you fold the winning hand? Congratulate your opponent on playing so deceptively, but don't forget to remind them that it will not happen again.

Did you win the hand? Be sure to let everyone know how your superior poker skills led you to make the winning call at the end.

Bluffed your opponent? Go wild. It's your time to shine.

Overview

The more you play Texas Hold'em Poker, the more you realise that it gets harder and harder to establish yourself as a great player and let everyone know about it through solid strategy alone. Most of your good plays will go unnoticed, and nobody will be aware of your greatness.

You really have to go out of your way to push those edges, and take those steps to ensure that your presence at the table is felt by all the other players.

Just as with anything in life, the more you practice, the better you will get.


Best of luck.