Hot Poker Tip 1 – Poker is about reading your opponents. The better you get at it and the better you see through their ruse, the better will you be able to play even when you’re not being dealt the best of hands. If you are still at the beginner’s level and cannot judge your opponents too well use the simple timid-aggressive rule. If your opponent is timid, bet aggressively against him to push him to fold but against the other kind, never bluff.

Hot Poker Tip 2 – A player who bets on the flop but not on the turn should be called on the flop and definitely bet on the river. If they bet a little too much, you can try calling them down even with a weaker hand.

Hot Poker Tip 3 – Mix your style as much as you can. Sometimes check-raise and bluff at other times. You can go for three bet with nothing too and, at other times, bet all the way till the flop. The more you change your style the more trouble your opponents will have playing you.

Hot Poker Tip 4 – Don’t get greedy at the Poker table or lose your cool. You must keep the balance so that you don’t fold when you should be calling or raise when you should be folding. It is a matter of Poker patience and practice that involves a little common sense and self control.

Hot Poker Tip 5 – When playing the small limits it is better to play tight. In case you’re sitting with bad kickers like A,6 don’t pay off any bets but pay off check raises, in case of a big kicker, on the turn.

Hot Poker Tip 6 – Build your nerves because Poker is a psychological game. It is best that you keep physically fit too so that you can have spare energy even when your opponents are wilting under pressure. Many players break under the strain of Poker and it is advisable not to take to drugs or alcohol because of this. All you need to do is build your courage, mind and body because Poker is for the tough! The higher the level of Poker games you play, the tougher will be your opponents who are even able to read the value of your hand simply by the way you sit! Players at the higher levels specialize in building pressure even if they feel that they have a small edge.

Hot Poker Tip 7 – Start picking up the statistics of Poker as soon as you can. At the highest level of Poker, players know all the odds, tells, strategies and more. They have a very high intelligence and understanding of the game. The only way you can get anywhere close to them is by getting your own statistics right so that even if you goof up on a hand, you can really break your way through with a good hand.

Hot Poker Tip 8 – Be kind to yourself and develop patience. You will need to take time at understanding the play during a Poker round. You will need to practice a lot and improve your judging powers before you start winning. Don’t be too harsh to yourself in the learning process but then don’t get addicted to Poker either. There’s a world beyond it too! Let Poker enrich your life and vice versa.

Understand my friend is a great poker player, and I’ll concede a far better player than me.  His bankroll and his results put mine to shame.  So, it’s kind of a sucker bet, because unless I got lucky he was going to win $100 before I did.  Except, I thought it was a sucker bet the other way.  For starters I didn’t know you could play Mobile Poker.

I didn’t know any of the sites offered a platform for Mobile Poker in any way.  Thinking that none did, I thought he was taking by far the worst of it.  After all, I just had to win a $100 on my computer at some point and time before Mobile Poker begins to exist, whenever that would be.  He may be a good poker player but he’s not the most tech savvy guy in the world, so I thought it was easy money.

Running a Mobile Poker game is a tough objective, unfortunately somebody’s figured out how to do it.  Turns out he plays on bwin, and turns out bwin’s been offering Mobile Poker for some time now.  Which one of us is tech savvy again?  Apparently, it’s really him.  Not only is he a better poker player than me he’s also a bigger tech geek too.

So we made the bet at his house, and I decided to stay and watch the rest of the soccer game that just started on TV after he challenged me.  After that I planned on going home and firing up my computer.  I was going to play some sit ‘n goes and cash tables until I won $100 on one of them.  As were we watching the game he starts text messaging people.  I think nothing of it, because he’s not much of a soccer fan, as he always says he rather be playing it than watching it but I’d never seen him so focused on texting.

The game was pretty good with three first half goals.  Meanwhile, he’s nonstop with the texting.  Eventually, I ask him who he’s talking to?  He says “Talking?”   I say “Texting.”  He smiles and says, “Oh right now, I’m with Apple_fan83 and a couple of her friends.”

Oh okay, whoever that was.  The guy dates a lot it could be any number of girls.  I could barely land my girlfriend and he gets a phone number every time he goes grocery shopping.   Except it wasn’t some girl he met picking out vegetables.  Apple_fan83 was on his cash table, and my buddy was in the process of killing a Mobile Poker game.  All that texting? Just him playing the game.

Halfway through the second half, I decided I wanted to see what Apple_fan83 and her friends were texting about.  I walk across the room and look over his shoulder and I see he was sitting on $92 in a Mobile Poker game.  He smiled and said, “I started with $20.”  I didn’t say a word, I just grabbed my keys and ran to my car.  Just as I got home and was getting online he sent me a picture mail.  It was his phone, the cash table and he had $123 on it.  He texted “Ship it!”

This link will usually give you a few options. Depending on your home country you may only be able to use some of these forms of deposit, or if you are lucky all of them. Double check to make sure when you created your account your home country code was accurate, so you can deposit money in the correct currency with the proper options available to you.

One of the most widely used options to deposit money is by using a credit or debit card. This may be the most convenient form of depositing poker money. Most sites will accept Visa, MasterCard, the Maestro Card, Diners Club, and some other cards that they will list. Sometimes there is a small fee attached to the deposit but a 2 to 3% charge is worth the ease of having the money immediately ready to play. Credit and debit cards are great options for that reason.

Prepaid cards are another form of depositing. Unlike credit cards you’ll never have to worry about going over your credit limit. Some players prefer this element of self-security. At most sites these cards don’t incur a fee and also enable you to play immediately. Of course, as prepaid cards limit the amount you can deposit to what you have on the card, some players prefer to have the larger credit line of their credit cards.

Popular prepaid cared options include Paysafecard, Ukash, and FreeBet. At bwin, you can deposit as little as $1 US or GBP 1 if you use a FreeBet Card. This is a good option to get started if you are playing poker for real stakes for the first time as you can ease yourself into the game and let the limits of the cards be the limits of your risk.

Ewallets such as Paypal or Neteller are another relatively hassle-free option. Like a prepaid card you are limited, in most cases, to the amount you have in your ewallet to deposit. The ewallets often have restrictions and different rules depending on your home country. It’s important to familiarize yourself with their policies and fees before deciding on using them as your method of deposit. Some ewallets have deposit minimums as well, so make sure to research more than just the fees. Usually, poker sites won’t charge a fee for this method but as the payment processor often do, you’ll have to factor that in when deciding on your method of choice.

The final method most sites use is bank draft deposits. The negative in this method is the long time it takes to get the money into your poker account. If you want to play “right now” this option is not for you. Some novice players use this method to deposit knowing they’ll have up to a week to wait on their funds and can learn about the game until then. This is kind of a fail-safe to prevent them from jumping into a game too quick. Of course most players prefer to use a method that puts money into their poker account immediately.

Always make sure that you play poker at a safe poker site such as: https://www.bwin.com/texas-holdem-poker. See you there!

This is a fact for some people and it is usually to do with losing something that many people cherish above everything else…..money! If you honestly and truly cherish many other things more than money then you will no doubt be the type of person who tilts less or even doesn’t tilt at all. So losing in poker is inevitable and something that cannot be avoided and what is more, you will have the capacity to lose a lot of money relative to the stakes that you are playing. The more you cherish money and the more you hate losing then the more poker is going to be a nightmare experience for you.

At the end of the day you are trying to control events that cannot be controlled. You can spend ages waiting for opportunities and finally get your opponent all in for one hundred big blinds with AA against their JJ and the flop comes 9-8-7 with a ten on the turn and you are history. This happens because in order to maximise your earn rate in poker then you have to accept marginal situations or situations where you are not a shoe in to win the hand.

I think that one of the major issues with people who play Texas Hold em poker is that essentially they either do not understand gambling concepts or they do not accept them psychologically. Either way they are attempting to control an environment that cannot be controlled and this can lead to tilt and anger and a whole host of negative emotions. So I think that what Benyamine meant was to accept all that poker is and see poker for what it really is. All too often though people put their own interpretations to poker or any complex event for that matter and so they never really see the truth.

I am not saying that I have all the answers when it comes to playing poker because I haven’t. The game is so complex that you can never master it and all you can do is to take your game and your mindset to a level where you can be considered an expert. But the definition of “expert” does not mean that you know everything that there is to know about poker. But I will repeat myself by saying that you have to love poker for what it is and it is a bit like a partnership with the opposite sex. It really doesn’t matter who you are with, they will have faults and flaws and accepting them is part of being with someone.

There are many psychological factors behind why many players fail to be successful in poker. Although one of the reasons why things get rather hazy when it comes to the definition of “success” is that many define it differently. There must be millions of people the world over who define themselves as successful poker players who in my opinion are not. This will mainly be to do with them having had some decent or half decent tournament results. With the very high level of variance in poker tournaments then I would never define someone as merely successful simply because they had won a couple of events.

I have heard of WSOP bracelet winners being so broke that they had to sell their bracelets and tournament players needing people to stake them because they had no money. But yet these are the same people who would have called themselves “successful poker players” and who would have been looked on as “successful” by other people. In tournament poker then the definition of success is always dollars won over dollars spent over a very long period of time. The online databases that give tournament winnings do not even begin to tell the real story. Most players sell pieces of themselves, have backers or people who stake them or they simply owe money to people and so their tournament wins are rarely their own money.

You are faced with a very difficult problem when someone perceives themselves as “successful” because these are players that would never ask for coaching. Once again this is down to mindset and is something that I try to alter whenever I coach. Most people these days look for ways to play hands better but yet this isn’t really where the money is for most people. If you do not have the correct attitude to risk then you will never play high stakes poker or even middle limits for that matter and so this means that working your way up through the levels will be impossible. Irrespective of the mindset and the level of understanding then you will never reach substantial levels. But once again this gets back to mindset and knowledge of not just the technical side of poker but on the other factors that go to make a good poker player.

The structured nature of the game means that the pot size will usually be universal within a small range and so waiting for big pay offs in limit Texas Holdem simply will not materialise and so you need to fight ferociously with regards to the pots that you play for. Even if you have the worst hand here and your opponent has something like A-9 then the combination of your position and the possible dead money by both blinds folding means that a raise will usually be +EV.

In this example our hero merely calls and the big blind also calls and the flop comes Qh-8h-7d. The big blind bets and the original raiser calls and now you have basically no hand other than a shaky draw to a king or a backdoor straight. But imagine if the big blind were betting Q-9 while the caller had 10-9 for a straight draw. Had you three bet pre-flop like you should have done then the big blind would likely have mucked their Q-9. Then you are heads up with position against an inferior hand and what could be better than that?

But our hero manufactured his own downfall here by not being aggressive pre-flop. This is where you need to strike the proper balance in limit and I often see players become aggressive at the wrong times with the wrong types of hands. An example could well be the following; it has been open raised by the hijack and our hero three bets with A-6. This play is aggressive but too aggressive. You need to play more respect to the position of the raiser and the fact that your ace could be dominated. An A-6 has what is known as reverse implied odds and if an ace arrives and your opponent has a bigger ace then you are in pay off territory.

In fact if your opponent had a hand like A-9 and you three bet with K-J and the hand was heads up then you could win this pot in numerous different ways. For instance if the flop came 10-8-4 and they check and you bet and they call then you still have the initiative as many players will call a flop bet. If the turn came a queen to give you an up and down straight draw then you could continue the betting and force your opponent off their ace high hand and win the pot without a showdown.

His approach to bankrolls sort of set me thinking about the game and I decided to try what I called a “no bankroll” approach. This sounds a little strange when you first hear it but let me explain. What I found or used to find when I first started playing poker was that negative runs used to affect me but on reflection it used to affect me because of how much of my bankroll I had lost. So if I had a bankroll of 500 big bets at say limit hold’em and I went on a 250 big bet downswing then I would really worry about losing 50% of my bankroll.

This would have an adverse affect on my game which led to me playing worse and potentially compounding the problem. So I decided to try a new approach to how I looked at bankrolls. I knew that I had to become really aggressive to compete in these modern games but having a finite bankroll may not allow me to do that as it had the possibility of affecting me psychologically. I knew that I had the income to constantly top up if I lost so I had the idea of having an infinite bankroll. This allowed me to play far better and more powerful poker.

So if I went on a downswing then I had not lost a set percentage of my bankroll but something that could not be quantified in terms of percentage because the bankroll was in theory anyway an infinite one. In reality of course the bankroll wasn’t infinite at all because there is no way that I would have continued losing money at any level of play. But if I needed to make a light call down with an entire buy-in then I wasn’t under pressure to do so based on my bankroll or my attitude to it.

This is not the best way or the optimal way to approach having a bankroll but it worked for me personally. It allowed me to play at some levels that would have been unthinkable to me under normal circumstances. So it is clear then that you can afford to be creative with poker bankrolls as long as what you are doing suits you personally and fits in with what you are trying to achieve long term.

My own personal record is spinning up $100 into $8000 at no-limit Texas Hold’em poker. But there is an art to doing this as most people tend to win money and then bust out through trying to push the boat out too far.

What you have to remember when you attempt to spin up is that you are in fact practicing absolutely terrible bankroll management. If you buy into a NL100 game for $100 and through careful aggressive play, double that to $200, then you now have two buy-ins for that level!

But most players who attempt to spin up then take the $200 and sit in a NL200 game where they are not only back down to one buy-in again but are now playing against better players than they were before. But lets say that they get lucky again, now they win another $200 and are now sitting with $400 to their name.

So now they try their luck in a NL400 game with the $400, back down to one buy-in again and this time mixing with even better players. Many professionals play at this level and the games will now be far more aggressive. Let us say that you keep replicating this process and take $600 into NL600 and $1000 into NL1000, just how long do you think that it will take to lose just one buy-in…..the blink of an eye that’s what.

If you are going to make spinning up work for you then you basically have to avoid treating the entire process like a poker tournament. If you sat down in a 1000 man online poker tournament, irrespective of how good you were, the overwhelmingly probability is that you would get knocked out at some stage prior to actually winning.

The increasing blinds and high variance would make the entire process heavily luck based irrespective of how well you played. But yet this is precisely what you would be doing if you attempted to spin up and take it too far. Compare the difficulty in winning an actual tournament with regards outlasting half the field.

Coming 500th in a 1000 man poker tournament could be achieved a very high proportion of the time but winning is a different story. The analogy with spinning up in cash games here is clear. Take the profits too soon rather than hang on and be greedy. The entire process is thrown a curve ball when an otherwise good NL100 player is then playing with opponents several levels higher and is now outclassed.

Suddenly the moves that he could make and get away with at NL100 are now getting played back at and three bet and the games are far more aggressive. He now finds that every time he attempts to steal the blinds that he is getting re-raised and his big hands are not getting paid off.

So my advice for anyone who is considering trying to spin up is this. Ignore what you read and hear and even if you hear of someone turning $100 into $8000 like I once did…..ignore it. That was exceptionally lucky and I may never again replicate that and nor would I want to. In fact with more sense and knowledge now, I would now take the profit sooner and probably cut-out at about $500. Do not ever get into a situation where you have to catch lightening in a bottle in order to win money. Otherwise all you are doing is paying for entertainment in a roundabout way.

Risk taking and playing hands quickly is the norm with tournament poker. It may seem rather obvious but the winner of any poker tournament has to get their hands on every single chip that is in circulation. People instinctively know this but yet do not adjust their play to compensate for it.

Many cash game poker players don’t shift gears enough when they play tournaments and exactly the same thing happens in reverse. I have often heard it said that cash games and tournaments should not be mixed and I believe that to be true mainly.

It is the mindset that is difficult to shake off when you switch games. If you are a regular cash game player and especially if you play full-ring then suddenly switching to a tournament mindset could prove difficult. Some players can do this and do this well but I would not recommend it for most players.

What tends to happen is that cash game players and especially full-ring players play too slowly and try to amass their stacks too slowly in the same way that they would in a cash game. I don’t believe that six max players fare any better to be honest.

But it is exactly the same with tournament players who switch to cash games, they are used to playing with stacks that are small compared to the average blinds. Only in the very early stages of a poker tournament does cash game play really come to the fore. Even then there is a lot to be said for playing faster than usual as your time restriction is still severe.

This is why many tournament players play fast and loose even in the early stages because they know that the early stages where the blind to stack ratio is high will not last long. They also figure that whatever dead money is around will be less likely to be around in the middle to late stages and they open up their game to try and get their hands on some of that. I have tried my hand at tournament poker several times and at the start, the transition from playing cash games was difficult.

I think that my hyper aggressive tournament style would do very well long term but this is why I don’t play live tournament poker, I would absolutely hate the prospect of travelling to heaven knows where to play a poker tournament really aggressively only to then bust out after one or two hours of play.

So online cash games definitely suit my personality and I try not to impede on that by playing tournament poker. I see tournament players in cash games all the time race with hands like AK on flops like A-10-5 for their entire stack. Sometimes this may be players simply over playing their hand who have yet to learn the nuances of cash game poker. Other times of course it is something else and that something else is often when tournament players drop in who are still playing far too quickly for the type of poker game that they are currently in.

Essentially then this player has sat in this poker game through a lack of choice. So if this game is full-ring then they could be playing full-ring even though they prefer shorter handed play. Likewise they could be playing if this game were six handed even though they preferred full-ring. However the situation is vastly different in large online card rooms with lots of active games at many different forms of poker.

If a player sits down in a full-ring game online then they have purposely selected that game above anything else. So what can we make of this? Well firstly it is a strong indication that this player prefers games with relatively low blind pressure compared to six handed or heads up play. It is also an indication that this player probably has a game more suited to full-ring than six handed play as well.

Whereas we could not tell anything with regards the mindset of the player who sat down in the live poker game, in this situation then we clearly have something to go on. This is where specialising in one form of poker is ideal as you get a good feel for the average ranges of the players and what types of hands they get all in with. These are different from six handed play to full-ring and they need to be for obvious reasons.

But I do think that a player who selects games with low blind pressure has a more defensive and cautious style of game than a player who plays six handed. A true six handed player has to be prepared to play five and even four handed when players sit out or drop out but five and four handed play would horrify many full-ring players who would quickly leave the table.

In no way however am I saying that full-ring game players are cautious tight playing rocks compared to their six handed counterparts. All that I am saying here is that they are more defensive minded when it comes to preferences regarding blind pressure and other factors. The average hand that a player will get all in with for their entire stack in a deep stack situation will be vastly different in full-ring. In six handed play then it would be often correct to get all in for 100 big blinds with a hand like J-J pre-flop. In full-ring this is rarely correct and hands like Q-Q are too weak to get all-in for 100 big blinds pre-flop.

If you are going to enter the pot then you should do so with a raise. I will leave off why that is in this article but suffice to say that there are several strategic advantages to raising. So when you see someone limp in limit hold’em six max games then you can rest assured that this is not a strong player.

Attacking limpers is something that is far more effective in pot limit and no-limit play than it is in limit play. If you attack a limper in no-limit then you can raise whatever amount you like. This cuts down the pot odds and implied odds of anyone who may have been thinking of coming into the pot. This will allow you to either get the hand heads up with position or will allow you to win the pot pre-flop.

This will not always be possible in limit hold’em and in fact it will not be possible to do this at all. If a player limps in no-limit then you can attack from the button with a hand like As-4s. But in limit play, both the big blind and the original limper will almost certainly call due to the pot odds and implied odds being so good. In fact the small blind may even call as well so your chances of winning the pot post flop will be reduced by extra players entering the pot.

So you will need to have the best hand far more often to win pots in limit Hold’em than at no-limit. The knock on effect from this is that attacking limpers with weak hands or mediocre hands is not a good poker play at this form of poker. In limit play then you have several objectives, one of your main goals when you consider playing a hand is in asking yourself if your hand has good equity in multi-way pots.

This is because more players will enter the pot in limit than in no-limit. If your hand does not play well against several players then you should fold. The exception to this rule is if you can get the pot heads up. A very aggressive player may find that a 9-6 can be profitable against a very tight playing rock with K-10 if their post flop aggression helps them to win the pot.

Usually the 9-6 will not be profitable but the superior post flop play of the aggressive player can turn losing and marginal hands into slight winners.

Let me explain, if you are multi-tabling then using software like Poker Office will help you to know important facts about players that it would be impossible to find out watching and playing in so many games at once. This is where tracking software really comes into its own. The problems stem from how players misuse the software or expect too much from it.

People have a habit of blindly following technology as if they are the ultimate Holy Grail. I have heard countless stories of motorists getting lost simply because they blindly followed their satellite navigation systems. This is the same in principle with tracker software, it needs to be used with common sense and not blindly followed.

But let me give you an example of how you can find information out about players that software like Poker Office cannot pick up. Let us say that you are playing NL400 on bwin poker and the game is six handed. You are not in this particular hand but you notice that one player suffers a particularly vicious outdraw. They then proceed to raise the next two hands.

Now it is possible that this could just be a coincidence and the player could have been dealt two good raising hands in succession. But the likelihood is that this player is tilting from the outdraw! There is no way that any tracker software can pick this up as a piece of software cannot detect subtle changes in human emotion. They are merely very good tools that are recording data and providing averages.

If a player has VPIP of 23% in a six handed no-limit game then this does not mean that they will put money into the pot in 23 of the next 100 hands that they play. That 23% is a long term average when all game factors and dynamics have been taken into consideration. Depending on current game dynamics then correct VPIP could be substantially higher or lower than what is often considered optimal.

This means that a player who may at first glance be playing optimal poker with good tracker metrics could have terrible leaks in their game at certain times. Maybe every time they win a big pot they loosen up for the next 100 hands or so. You can often feel this happening even in online poker. If you join in mid-game which you always have to do with online poker then it isn’t possible to know what certain players are feeling. It is for this reason why I often watch games that I intend to play in for at least fifteen minutes prior to sitting down in them.

Perhaps this is the most popular of all poker game variations; and therefore, it is widely played in the whole world. In this game, cards are dealt  face  up in each player in the vicinity of all players at the table  and the idea  here is  to form a winning  combinations  from all the cards that  a player is dealing. It is a community poker variation and this means that players can use their own as well as the community cards to form a winning combination.

In Texas Holdem, there is the dealer button that is usually positioned on the table in front of the player who is dealing that hand. It is a kind of an indicator. Just a small disc; it revolves around the table with all the players having to deal a hand in their respective turns. During the start of the game, the player , who is going to be the first dealer is determined by the highest card draw where all players are dealt one card each and the one with the highest card gets to start as the dealer. Perhaps, the reason why this game is so popular is that it gives every player a turn to play early or late. If two players get lucky and at the same time draw high cards, they are ranked according to their suits; that is, from spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs.  It is a very fair game with almost nil chances of cheating.

In Texas Holdem variant, there are two types of blind bets that are placed by two players, since there are only two bets.  The small blind bet is placed by the player who is to the immediate left of the dealer while the big blind bet is placed b y the player who is next to the player who places the small blind bet. The small blind bet is normally half the lowest stake while the big blind bet is equal to the lowest stake value.  

Betting in Texas Hold’em

Betting in Texas, Hold’em is done by all the players in that it is rotational. In fact, all activities on the table are rotational starting with the dealer because the dealer button rotates around the table in the clockwise direction. Betting in this game can be divided into four sections where we could have the first betting round, the second betting round and the third betting round as well as the final betting round.

In the first betting round, betting starts with the player who is next to the player who has the big blind bet; he has the option to bet, raise or fold; all the players are then going to follow suit by calling, raising or folding.  To call someone’s bet, or to call on the table is to bet exactly the same amount as the last player who bet before you.  In this case, if the first player folds, the next player will have the option of placing a bet while the others will have the option to call in that order. In the first round, the bets are set to the lowest limit of the stakes. Say, in a game of $50/$30, the value of a bet will be $30.00

The second round of betting comes after there has been a flop. A flop is an instance when the first three community cards have been dealt. In this round, the first player to the left of the dealer button gets the first opportunity to act. He can bet, raise or fold.  While he/she is at it, they also have the option of checking which is where a player decides to refrain from betting. If a bet is made, the other players will have the option of calling, raising or folding but not checking.

In third round betting, which is usually after the “turn” which is the instance after the fourth community card has been dealt, the player to the left of the dealer button will bet first.

Straight poker is the oldest type of poker where a complete hand is dealt to each player while all the players bet into the pot in one round. Straight is the oldest poker family that is known to man. For the showdown, straight hands of five cards are used mostly but other conventional hands can also be used so that as much space as possible can be left for other additional strategies.

In stud poker, cards are arranged beforehand in combinations of face downs or face ups. Also called street poker, it generally but gradually progressed  from  3 card betting of  times  past and  today, it has progressed  up to  seven card stud poker where seven  cards are dealt per player.  This one {seven card stud} is the most popular of all variations of poker. Two extra cards on top of the common five are dealt per player in every round to make the game a combination of twos: three face downs and four face ups. Each player tries to make the best possible 5 card hand from the seven.

In draw poker, complete hand is dealt to each player on the table. All cards are face down and after betting into the pot, all players are allowed an opportunity to change their hand. The motive for doing this is to try and improve the hand. As the player gets dealt with new cards, they discard the old ones   to try and come up with a winning combination. Draw poker is the most famous of all variations of poker today.