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...
Table Dynamics
One of the most important factors in determining how to play a hand and approach the game of poker is the dynamics of the table, that is how the table is playing and how the...
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...
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...
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...
Managing False Starts
Most experienced poker players recognize the importance of learning how to quit sessions when it is in their interest to do so. Psychologically speaking, it can be incredibly difficult to leave a game when down....
Can We Assume No-Limit Hold'em Always "Plays Bigger" Than Limit?
Back during the World Series of Poker I recall a certain "WSOP Hand of the Day" between Matt Matros and Jonathan Lane that came up during Event #52, the $2,500 Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) tournament eventually...
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...
Altering Bet Sizes Against Aggressive Players
One area that many poker players struggle with is playing against an aggressive opponent who has position on them. For the most part good players try to avoid these situations but sometimes they cannot be...
Blind Defence: Calling Preflop
In a previous article we covered defending our blinds by becoming the aggressor preflop and three-betting them in an attempt to take the pot down before the flop for the most part. Three-betting is the...
Blind Defence: Three-betting
Almost every poker player worth his or her salt knows that stealing their opponent's blinds and antes can be very profitable strategy, but one area where a lot of players struggle is when they are...
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...
