Poker Strategies

Welcome to Two Plus Two, the world's largest poker strategy resource online and in print. Our online poker forums, are home to over 400,000 players. Two Plus Two publishes best selling poker books written by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, and Dan Harrington among others. Our strategy books are available at local retailers as well as online through Amazon. For additional poker news and for poker strategy articles check out our poker magazine published monthly.

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The general poker strategy is to open-raise your strongest hands from under the gun, then open more hands as you get closer to the button. If someone else opens in front of you, you can 3-bet, call or fold using similar near-optimal ranges of starting hands. Things get a bit more complicated once the flop is dealt. The top 5 strategies for novice poker players, and intermediate-level poker players include the following: Opening Hands, Bet Sizing, Limping, Folding, and Positioning. Once you’ve mastered these 5 Texas Hold’em poker strategies, you’ll be able to incorporate many other strategies into your overall game plan.

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The Two Plus Two Poker Forums provide thought provoking discussions on poker and gaming topics. With one of the strongest poker and gaming communities, members can expect to find up to date news, poker instruction, gossip, and even book reviews.

We are proud to say our poker forum has approximately 500,000 members and more than 50,000,000 posts including the poker archives, making us the leading resource for online poker strategy. Our poker forums cover all aspects of gaming and other topics of interest to the poker community.

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Our online poker strategy magazine is available each month and offers top quality poker and gaming information, vigorous debate, and a little bit of fun. Our monthly poker magazine is free and includes articles written by many of the 2+2 authors. The February 2+2 Poker Strategy Magazine is now available.

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Poker and Gaming Strategy Books

Two Plus Two publishes the finest books on poker, poker strategy and other gaming topics. Our books are written by the best authors in poker and gaming, such as David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, Ray Zee, Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie along with John Feeney, Matt Flynn, Nick 'Stoxtrader' Grudzien, Donna Harris, Geoff 'Zobags' Herzog, Sunny Mehta, Ray Michael B, Ed Miller, Collin Moshman, Dan Paymar, Alan Schoonmaker, and Sylvester Suzuki

Two Plus Two gaming and poker books are available at booksellers. Titles include some of the top selling poker strategy books online, including Theory of Poker, Sit and Go Strategy , Harrington on Holdem, and Harrington on Cash Games among others.

Two Plus Two poker books are now translated into multiple languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian, Finnish, Russian, Polish and Portuguese.

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No Limit Hold 'em For Advanced Players: Emphasis on Tough Games
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In 2003 poker was put on television and no-limit hold em quickly became the most popular form of poker played in casinos, public cardrooms, and on the Internet. At first, because of the newness of the game to most participants, they could be easily be beaten by players with only a moderate knowledge of sophisticated strategy. more ...


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Poker is a game of many different concepts and ideas, and the relative importance of these ideas has changed over the years as different forms of poker gain and lose popularity. more ...

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Real Poker Psychology
by Mason Malmuth

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During the last few years, there has been much new information produced that comes under the heading of poker psychology. The idea is to cover that area of poker which is less strategic but still important to one s overall success at the game, and a new area of mental coaching has appeared. more ...

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Harrington on Modern Tournament Poker
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Over the last ten years, the enormous growth of interest in poker and poker tournaments has led to an intense focus on the theory of tournament poker. The result was a re-examination of old ideas and the introduction of many new ones. The fundamentals of no-limit hold em did not change, but the game was revealed to have more depth than many older players could have anticipated. more ...

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Applications of No-Limit Hold ’em
by Matthew Janda

One of the most daunting moments in a poker player’s career occurs when he realizes his knowledge of how to play a specific hand well is incomplete without the additional understanding of how to play every other hand in his range well. This task would be impossible if a player had to actually think about every other hand in his range, but by understanding theoretical sound poker, he can quickly design balanced ranges using the proper bet-sizing while playing. more ...

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