No Limit Holdem 
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...
Using Blockers in Hold'em and PLO
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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,...
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 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...
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...
Adjusting To Deepstacked Play
More and more poker tournaments live and online are being played in a deep-stacked structure, especially live events. In these tournaments players usual start with around 200 to 300 big blinds in their stacks, like...
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...
Player Identification
The modern game of online poker is one that seems to be dominated by those who use poker tracking software, heads-up displays and other statistic providing avenues but what happens if one day these become...
Adjusting To Loose Players
Most of the money that you make from No Limit Hold'em cash games will come from the weak players at your table, this should make perfect sense and need little explanation. A common trait shared...
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...
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...
Evaluating Backdoor Draws in No-Limit Hold'em
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