Live Tournaments 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...
Turbo Tournaments
Turbo tournaments are gaining in popularity both in online poker circles and in the live arena but there are a core section of poker players who are dead set against them. They often cite the...
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...
Bounty Tournament Strategy
Betfair recently announced the schedule for the eagerly anticipated Betfair Poker LIVE! Tour and along with the great destinations it was also revealed that the Man Event's on this season's tour are going to be...
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...
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...
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...
Odds versus ranges
Bad poker players will usually tell bad beat stories along the lines of something like this: 'Well I had pocket eights and I just knew he was bluffing so I got my stack all in...
Stealing
Most of the greatest poker players are born thieves when it comes to their table play. Although (for the most part anyway) people of the highest integrity off the table and in terms of respecting...
