Making Tough, But Good Folds
Someone on CardsChat posted this hand up the other day and I thought it was a good hand that demonstrates how to use hand reading and poker combinations to make [...]
5 Things Every Poker Player Should Work On
There's one thing I think every poker player would agree with - the longer you play poker, the more complex it becomes. Like with everything in life, once you [...]
Top 10 Poker Strategy Books
Top 10 Poker Strategy Books There are so many great poker books on the market today, much more so than there was 15 or even 10 years ago. We [...]
Fantasy Sports Isn’t Gambling
Yeah, that's right, it's not gambling. I've never played fantasy sports, and likely never will. It is a concern to me that this is such a controversy, because of its [...]
You’re playing no-limit not limit Holdem
So this is the standard polarity swings of the memes in poker. Early on people folded way too much in their blinds. They feared, and rightly so, that playing out [...]
Bet or check the turn w/ 2nd pair?
Here's a hand I played the other day that I posted in my coaching thread. A pretty common spot and it highlighted a point I wanted to make in the [...]
When to trust your poker reads?
At some point in every poker player's career, there will be a point where you need to throw common sense out the window and really trust your gut. That's especially [...]
Checking Range OOP on paired dry boards
I don't normally play FR. But I like checking paired dry boards OOP into people and seeing what they do on the flop, because I can generally get a pretty [...]
Why poker stats matter – PT. 3
So continuing on with my mini-series on poker stats, I want to talk briefly about pre-flop 3-betting. Really I think this should be a pretty easy area for people [...]
Value your opponents bad range
So here's a common spot that happened in a hand while a student of mine was observing and sweating me. We were playing 6-max against a fish that was [...]