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Going for Knockouts in Tournaments: Is It Worth It?
So-called "bounty" or "knockout" tournaments have become increasingly popular over recent years, especially when it comes to online poker. These are tourneys for which part of the prize pool is set aside to reward players...
The Importance of Suitedness in No-Limit Hold'em
One debate that frequently arises in discussions of no-limit hold'em strategy concerns the relative importance of suitedness. For many, when faced with a marginal decision over whether or not to play a hand, having two...
Sevens, Eights, and Nines in Omaha/8
Omaha/8 (a.k.a. Omaha Hi/Lo Split-8-or-Better) has grown in popularity over recent years thanks in part to the fact that online poker rooms are now regularly offering it not just in its traditional fixed limit format...
Using Blockers in Hold'em and PLO
We're all focused on the NFL playoffs here in the U.S. right now, what with the Super Bowl being just a few weeks away. The playoffs are a time when individual players often emerge as...
A New Year, and a New Idea for Tracking Poker Results
For poker players, the start of a new year often occasions at least a couple of familiar ideas. Like everyone else, poker players are inspired to make resolutions when the calendar turns to January 1,...
The Information Game
Years ago -- before the tidal wave of poker strategy advice and theory that accompanied the "boom" and collectively improved the thinking and skill sets of many -- one frequently heard players describing themselves betting...
Building a Strategy for Double-or-Nothing SNGs
A little over three years ago, "Double or nothing" sit-n-goes started to appear as a new option on online poker sites. Usually these are 10-handed, single-table tournaments in which the top five finishers get double...
Producing a Dynamic Poker Game
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Playing Small Pocket Pairs
Being dealt a small pocket pair in no-limit hold'em is like receiving one of those fortune cookies containing a vague promise that something good may happen in the near future. You know, something about being...
Mix It Up: The Benefits of Learning Other Games
Most of us first began playing poker by learning one particular variation of the game. Very likely we didn't necessarily choose the game, but it "chose us" -- that is, we played whatever game our...
Dealing with Post-Flop Min-Bettors in PLO
The other day I was sitting at my usual low-stakes online game -- six-handed pot-limit Omaha -- when I realized an opponent seemed to be doing a lot of minimum-betting after the flop. And when...
Blind-vs.-Blind Fury in No-Limit Hold'em
We all have love-hate relationships with the blinds, I think. On the one hand, playing from the blinds mostly stinks. They're doubly disadvantageous, really. Not only are we forced to commit chips without seeing our...
Poker and Driving
Over the past couple of year, on the Betfair Poker blog, writers have compared poker to a whole range of subjects including poker and warfare and poker in the classroom but what about poker and...
Smaller Preflop Raises Late in Multi-Table Tournaments
You've noticed it, I'm sure. Players in later stages of multi-table tournaments are no longer raising three times the big blind -- at one time a universal standard, it seemed -- often preferring instead to...
