Beginner Tips 
Tourney Strategy: The Stop-and-Go
Being short-stacked in a no-limit hold'em tournament is never ideal, whether during the early, middle, or late stages. Whereas a big stack affords you a wide range of options both before and after the flop,...
Taking Hands Off
Say you're in a no-limit hold'em cash game. After struggling for most of the session, you've just won a nice pot and now suddenly you're back in black. The next hand has begun, it folds...
Light Three-Betting in No-Limit Hold'em
Once upon a time a preflop three-bet -- that is, a reraise over an opening raise -- was an unmistakable signal of strength in no-limit hold'em. When it came to preflop play, the vast majority...
Push 'em Provides Chance to Sharpen Short-Stacked Strategy
There's a new game debuting on Betfair Poker this week called Push 'em, a variant designed to provide action in a hurry. A no-limit hold'em cash game, Push 'em requires players to buy in for...
Bet-Sizing in No-Limit Hold'em
Those of us who have been playing no-limit hold'em for a while sometimes forget what it was like when we first started out. While the rules of the game are relatively easy to pick up,...
Single-Suited Flops in No-Limit Hold'em
It happens more often than you might think in no-limit hold'em -- a flop containing three cards of the same suit. About once every 19 hands or so (a little over 5% of the time),...
Playing Fixed Limit Hold'em Tournaments
You might have noticed how my partner in crime YorkyPuds has been playing in the Grand Series of Poker VIII over the last week-and-a-half (both the GSOP and Mini-GSOP). There are still a few days...
Opening Raise Sizes with Premium Hands
I recently reviewed Nathan Williams' Crushing the Microstakes and interviewed Williams as well. As the title suggests, the book focuses on the lowest-limit games, with Williams' concentrating primarily on NL2 and NL5 full ring no-limit...
On Open-Shoving from the Small Blind Late in Tournaments
If you play a lot of sit-n-gos or multi-table tournaments, you've probably seen it -- the small-blind open-shove. Particularly late in tourneys when the stacks become relatively shallow, you'll see players sometimes opting to push...
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,...
