Poker Cash Game Strategy

By Sniper, Contributing Editor to Bonusbabe.com

Although it’s the top tournament players that get the media exposure and become household names that all the young players want to emulate it’s the cash games where the real players can be found.

As Paul Newman playing Fast Eddie Felson said in the Color of Money “It’s all about the money, and the person with the most is the best.” Although he was talking about pool hustling, the same rings true about poker.

Even though you can watch poker most nights of the week on television these days, you’ll be hard pushed to find a televised cash game. However, the cash games are where millions of dollars change hands on a daily basis and where lots of very good players that you’ve never even heard of can make a very good living.

Short Handed Poker Strategy

It’s interesting how when you change one small aspect of a poker game, like the amount of players at a table, the strategy completely changes. Short Handed poker games are becoming more popular lately, because of the higher action and larger edge it gives to bigger players. You really have to open up your hand selection and ’start playing poker’ to make it in a short handed poker game.

Stud Hi Lo Strategy

This is another game that can either be one with a high or a low hand. In stud you’re dealt 3 cards (two down, one up) followed by one additional card and a round of betting until everyone has 7 cards. After learning the basics of the game, the aspect that separates the winners from the losers is the ability to remember all of the known cards that were dealt. This will help you tremendously in calculating your odds.

Razz Strategy

Razz is like played out like Stud Hi/Lo, without the high. The goal is to get the lowest possible five card hand, with A2345 being the nuts. Suits don’t have any effect, and pairing cards hurts you, because you at least need five unique cards for a hand. Razz becomes a game of psychological warfare that revolves around figuring out what your opponents hidden cards are.

In Limit games, the general rule is to have 200 to 300 times the big bet. The swings in Limit play aren’t as bad, and more than likely they’re swings from hand-to-hand rather than from your bankroll. This means your bankroll won’t take as big a hit as in No-Limit, but it also means you have to play longer and more consistently to come out ahead.

There is really no “one” answer regarding the best way to manage a bankroll in a cash game, but these particular style games, should provide you with a foundation that will help you on your path to poker success.

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