Hold'Em - Ring Game Strategy

Ring games are the easiest games to play. These are basically cash games that you can drop in and out of as you please, playing as many or as few hands as you want.

Winning ring games requires different skills from tournaments. A ring game is one you can sit down in and start playing immediately, and leave anytime. You bet with you own cash, and each win or loss add or depletes from this cash(unlike tournament poker where you pay a set buy-in fee, and get a set number of chips in return which aren't yours to keep, only if you do well in the tournament do you receive a prize).

Thus the best tips are:
(1) Choose the correct table. You will find tables from $0.25/$0.50 to $50/$100 or even more. The higher tables offer greater payoffs, but also greater losses! As well, as this expert players who know exactly what they are doing, are more likely to be playing at the higher tables. So, start off at the smallest table, and work your way up one step at a time. If you start losing at a higher table, go back one step down until you feel ready again.

(2) You will not win every hand. Thus you should have enough chips in your bankroll to cover 30 losing bets. e.g. if you choose to play on a $2/$4 table, you should not come to the table with less than $4x30=$120. Why? (a) Even if you play totally correct strategy, you will be outdrawn many times, but over the long term you should do well if employing correct strategy. Thus a sufficient bankroll to ride through any losses is a must (b) If you do lose more than 30 bets, it's time to stop. Things clearly are not going right for you, and the table isn't right. Move down one level.