Live Cash Games 
Freeze Right There. Are You Bluffing?
Most people have heard of the term "fight-or-flight" at least once in their lives. It is used to describe how animals and humans react when faced with immediate danger or threats, we either run away...
Telling The Story Of A Bluff
One of the most fun, exciting and exhilarating moves a poker player can make at their table is a bluff. Anyone who tells you differently is simply wrong. The very act of bluffing goes against...
The Art Of Folding
Everyone talks about poker as being a game of pure aggression where betting and raising are the best plays to make in the vast majority of situations but unless you are a rare breed of...
Warming Up and Cooling Down
One of the great properties of the game of poker is there are no physical requirements to play the game. It does not really matter if you are an extremely fit 19-year old or an...
Why Position Is Vital In Poker
As a general rule the average poker player in today's game is much more skilled, or at least more knowledgeable, than they were as little as three years ago. There are a number of reasons...
Where to play low stakes cash in Las Vegas
Poker players heading to Las Vegas for the first time have plenty to choose from when it comes to low stakes live cash games. While not every casino in Sin City includes poker among its...
What is "The Straddle"?
One of the features of that has become very popular on the televised cash games is the addition of an extra optional big blind, or 'straddle' added by the under the gun player. This is...
The Floating Explosion
One of the key changes that has affected all games in the last twelve months or so has been the massive increase in the number of players refusing to believe flop bets. It used to...
The Steam Point
A topic first introduced to the general public by Barry Greenstein in his excellent poker book Ace on The River, the 'steam point' of a player is roughly defined as the amount of money/number of...
Making adjustments when playing live
With the huge changes in the online poker landscape in recent weeks, many players will be turning their attention to live games, and with numerous events like Betfair Live and the WSOP coming up, the...
Following the action - Importance of observation
One feature that truly unites all the greatest poker players is their undying observational skills. Weak players generally just focus on the hands they are involved in (and often not even on that), but absorbing...
O'Sullivan, Ungar and Instinct
One of the things that has always raptured the audience - and the betting public for that matter - with a player like Ronnie O'Sullivan is that he only really has two gears. He is...
Playing against weak live opponents
Following a question on my Twitter feed from wongkarwai, I wanted to look at one of the basic adjustments you should be making against weak live opponents other than just the obvious of playing strong,...
The Sir Alex Ferguson effect
A recent study by the Guardian newspaper has revealed something that many football fans have long suspected, but has now been confirmed mathematically: Manchester United get more extra time when behind than they do when...
