Multi Table Tournaments 
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Acknowledge When You Run Good
I never hit my draws when I need to. Ace-king always hits for my opponents but never for me. Why do they always have aces when I have kings? How often have you heard or...
Leading instead of check-raising
Leading into a preflop raiser can be an extremely profitable play to make in low stakes games, even more profitable than check-raising them. The reason the play works best in these games is the fact...
