3 Common Mistakes Poker Beginners Make

Playing only stronger hands and swiftly folding weaker ones. Not knowing the art of Bluffing. Continue playing low hands against a raise. I’m sure poker players out there can resonate with me on this.

Few of these early poker-playing mistakes are still visible in my gameplay. However, playing thousands of poker hands taught me a lot.

This blogpost is intended to help the new players to refrain from making the mistakes I made as they get started playing with the poker game.

A common mistake that beginners make is playing too many hands instead of being selective enough with their starting hands.   

You should understand that not every or any hand can win. Although there is no denying that some hands are more likely to win than others and will help you win big, while others will help you lose.

So the takeaway is that you should choose to play the good hands over the bad ones. Following are some of the top 5 starting hands for the new players to the poker game to stick to: