Tips, Strategies and Tips for Casino Hold'em

Back around 2003 or 2004, no-limit hold’em exploded on a global stage. With television shows airing all over the world, poker became extremely popular in a short period of time, and though its popularity has cooled down a little at times, it’s still extremely popular. Casino hold’em is a great game that’s based on the same hand structure, but you can play it by yourself against the dealer instead of going up against other players. There’s a good bit of strategy involved in this game, and there are elements of video poker with the payout table, so it’s a fun game with a good bit of depth.

Generally speaking, strategy in casino hold’em is going to require you to fold the worst of your hands and play with the majority of them. The reason for this is that folding is very expensive, and it should only be used as an option when the dealer is going to have a big advantage over you. If you have any kind of pair or good draw, then you’re going to have the advantage most of the time. It’s hard to hit good hands on just a flop, so the dealer is unlikely to have much to go on.

So if you want to have the best chances of winning, you need to figure out how often you need to fold. If you’re folding about 20 percent of hands, then you should be playing pretty well. If you fold less than 15 percent of the time, then you aren’t folding nearly enough, but if you’re folding more than 25 percent of the time, then you’re folding entirely too often. If you want to get a better feel for how this works, you’ll need to do some tracking of your own play.

There’s a simple way to do this. Have a piece of paper and a pen ready when you start your session, and keep a tally of how many hands you fold compared to how many you play. After a few hundred hands, you’ll start to notice trends towards how often you’re folding in total. You can adjust your play to compensate for whether you need to fold more or less often, and that makes it easy to systematically improve at this game. Overall, casino hold’em is a lot of fun, and it requires enough strategy to keep competitive players interested.