Re-Stealing Stacks Late in Tournament Poker
One of the hardest stack sizes to play in no limit tournament poker is one of between fifteen and twenty five big blinds. This is because it occupies a sort ...
Dealing with hyper aggressive recreational players
One of the most common fish types in the modern era, the hyper aggro weak player is becoming an increasingly common sight at the tables, and keeping on top o...
Hand Value and the Number of Opponents
One of the core skills that all good players have is the ability to think about their hand carefully and well depending on the key factors that drastically a...
Exploiting weak players
Most great skill games have areas that are extremely counter intuitive. Put another way, they have nuances where the correct play seems to defy common sense ...
How and when to defend your blinds
No poker player alive can play profitably long term out of the blinds. The forced nature of the bet, the fact that you are out of position for the whole hand...
Heads up against loose aggressive players
As anyone who has had the misfortune of playing a very high grade loose-aggressive player heads-up will testify, at points in battles with these players it c...
Importance of stealing in poker
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 of...
What to do with Top Pair but a Weak Kicker
One of the core hands that strong players win a huge amount of extra money with, and also lose far less than a weaker player will, is top pair bad kicker. Th...
Understanding bad players
With poker forums often mentioning about how dealing with bad players is often very different to how you deal with good players, I thought it was worth looki...
Early stage play in online turbo tournaments
Although the importance of generally playing tight in the early stages of turbo sit and goes, but then becoming much more aggressive later as the blinds quic...