Winning Poker Hands Most Often Arrive at Fifth Street

One of the greatest and most important poker rules of thumb that a Texas holdem poker player can remember is that even when he seems to be “behind” with his poker hands, he may yet rally on the draw and see the nut poker hands arrive on Fifth Street, (AKA the turn), and to not get overly discouraged when he doesn’t have the nut or superior poker hands on the flop. By the same token another one of the wiser poker rules of thumb is that poker players sitting at the poker table, regardless if it is at an online poker website or at in person casino poker card room, should not count their poker chips before they are surrendered and to not get overly cute with good poker hands that, while strong, can still be beaten on the draws.

It is often profitable for Texas holdem poker players to stay with poker hands that may not be the nut moment at the precise moment of the draw on the flop or Fourth Street, (AKA the turn), but that have a sufficient amount of outs that make drawing on such poker hands both logical and reasonable. In both online poker and at person Texas holdem poker tables more poker players nowadays will draw on nearly all kinds of poker hands so knowing when to challenge these aggressive action oriented poker players and when to throw your poker hands into the muck is paramount to the long term Texas holdem poker success of you as a poker player.

Another one of the better poker rules of thumb is to raise with good but not great poker hands that likely are the best poker hands at a particular moment such as on the turn or Fifth Street but face the possibility of getting outdrawn on Fifth Street. If you are at an online poker or in person Texas holdem poker table and suspect that one of your poker opponents may be on drawing poker hands that need that fifth and final card on Fifth Street to make the nuts it is one of the most absolute poker rules of thumb that you charge them a premium price in poker chips to see that final draw on the river and not allow them to draw potential nut poker hands on the cheap.

Part of knowing how to play your poker hands and how to read your poker opponents at the online poker or in person poker table is to analyze their motivations and actions at the poker table. To put it another way a poker player should ask himself, “why did he do that”, when analyzing the acts of a poker opponent and then merge the board reads and poker hand reads together for the answer.