Poker strategy is simple really, or should be simplified at least.  Sometimes I think we over complicate things in life.  On a recent High Stakes Poker episode it was very interesting to hear Patrik Antonius say that he had never read a poker strategy book, everything he knows about poker was self taught.  Wow!!! and to have got to the level where he is, that is incredible!

But then again I was reading Alan Schoonmaker’s column in the CardPlayer magazine, “Winners are Selectively Aggressive”.  And it is so true.  He talks about three sentences that stuck in his head when he read a poker book by John Scarne.  And these were:

When you have nothing, get out.
When you are beat, get out.
When you have the best hand, make your opponents pay!

Now it doesn’t get more simple than that!!!  The complication comes in knowing when you have the best hand or knowing that you are beat… ha!

But still keep it simple, is a good motto to follow and those three sentences are worth remembering for basic poker strategy.