This great expert advice for playing in Texas Hold'em poker games will improve your results at the casino and at any home game. Here are our top 10 tips for cash games.

One new poker book which hasn't reached my hands yet is James McManus' Cowboys Full, which details the entire history of the game of poker. I've read parts of it in CardPlayer Magazine and he's the author of one of my favorite poker books of all time, so I wanted to read it long before it made its way to year-end "best books" lists. If you've got a real poker fan on your list, it'd make a great gift. Buy it here

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Whether you've been playing poker one month or for decades, we all started out beginners. I've been playing poker for (yipes) close to 30 years now, but I didn't start playing seriously til I was in my 20s. For me, one of the "eureka" moments that helped me when I started taking my game more seriously was someone telling me that just because you've thrown in a lot of money into a pot, that doesn't mean you have to stay in it until the end. Before, I'd think, "Well, I've already put so much in the pot, I have to stay in now." But that's not smart: You can't win a pot just by sticking around. You can try and bluff and there may be other reasons to stay in, but you don't get to win just because you've put a lot of money out there. What poker advice would you give other players? What were your "A-Ha!" moments?

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