Regardless of the type of poker that you are playing, be it tournament or cash, betting for information is extremely important in NL Hold’em. There are plenty of players that simply will not do this and it is more than likely the reason that they are not very successful at the game of hold’em. At [...]
This style of play has become very popular over the last few years. The young, internet generation of poker player has no fear and no respect for anyone else at the table. They are going to fire at any pot and if they hit, they will come right at you regardless of their kicker.
There isn’t a poker player alive that participates in tournament poker that has not found themselves card dead in the early stages of a tournament. You go in with a plan that you are going to double up early on that one big hand, but it never seems to come. The next thing you know [...]
PokerTracker, Sit N Go Power Tools, Sit N Go Shark, do any of these names sound familiar to you? If they don’t, you are probably making more deposits than withdrawals into your poker account. In this day of poker, if you do not have at least one of the many forms of poker tracking software [...]
Sophisticated card-playing robots – known as “poker bots” – have now been playing online for years and the trend is accelerating. The increasing activity on poker bots forums and the growing interest generated by the annual poker bot competition (organized by the university of Alberta) are prime indicators of this trend. Of course, online poker [...]
If there is one thing that is certain in poker, it is that television and Online Poker have changed the complexion of the game forever. Going back as little as ten years ago, ABC poker players were very successful. As TV started showing horrible river suck-outs time and time again, the younger generation of poker [...]
If you have spent any amount of time playing in MTT Hold’em tournament, you know how frustrating it can be when you make call downs on draws and they never hit. The next thing you know your stack is down to nothing and you have little or no choice to go all in with a [...]
I am sure we have all enjoyed the amusement provided by the “Matusow Blowup” and Phil Hellmuth’s endless rants. I always get a kick out of watching someone lose their mind after a sick beat or an unbelievable call. But what about when the explosion is from you? Is it all part of the game [...]
In my last blog, I touched on the importance of manipulating your table in a manner that makes the poker game profitable for you. In today’s game the importance of table image can not be over looked. Long gone are the day’s of six years ago, when you could sit at a table as still [...]
In the early stages of the tournament, we were able to avoid losing any chips in marginal situations, as well as doubling up our stack with a premium hand. The blinds are now becoming large enough that merely winning a few blinds, will help to increase our stack significantly. As a result, it is time [...]
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