What is poker if you do not know the strategies of playing and winning it. There are so many strategies of winning in poker. The basic thing is that you should play in a smart way. Mental agility and being mentally active is the utmost important thing in poker. The very foundation of strategies of poker is that every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponent's cards, you gain, and every time your opponent plays his cards differently from the way he would play them if he could see your cards, then too you gain.

A poker player tries to induce his opponents to play in a different way than they would if they could view his cards by set the ploy of deception. Another main trick in poker is bluffing. It is a form of trickery to tempt the opponents to fold their superior hands. The opponents won't call his bets unless and until they have good hands, rather than very good, if they come into observation that the player never ever bluffs.

Slow playing is another deceptive trick in poker that is more or less the opposite or reverse of bluffing. Opponents can catch in on the hints of weakness if one does not succumb to playing slow. Also, the players come to know how their opponents get to act, if they are in the late position. Moreover, one should be smart enough to interpret the present and future moves of his opponents.

Thus, intelligence while playing is the greatest strategy in poker