One method many online poker players have adopted in recent years is called “short stacking”. This is an approach one can take in no-limit hold’em cash games. Online poker rooms have a minimum and a maximum buy-in for their no-limit games. Usually, the minimum buy-in is 20-40 big blinds and the maximum buy-in is 100-200 [...]
Harrah’s has really improved the World Series of Poker main event this year. While the Main Event has always had pretty good structure, allowing for a lot of play, they have made it simply amazing this year. The blinds move up very slowly, allowing for more play and skilled players to increase their advantage over [...]
If you’ve ever read any poker book before you will undoubtedly have read about how it’s better to bide your time and play only premium hands. For a long time I subscribed to that school of thought but I came to realize that the theory is flawed, particularly in a No Limit Hold ‘Em tournament. [...]
Stu Ungar perhaps one of the most famous poker players of all time once said that he never put a single chip in the middle of the pot until the ante came into play and that playing before that level was not worth it and just asking for trouble. Then there’s the other school of [...]
If there is one aspect of your poker game that will always need improvement it’s your heads up game. Unfortunately the majority of us do not get enough practice with the mano a mano situation and when we reach that elusive stage in the tournament we seem to forget the most crucial aspect of playing [...]
Slow playing is the act of limping in a pot with a premium hand such as pocket aces to incite your opponent to raise with a weaker hand. Slow playing is not meant for the beginner because there are a lot of factors to consider that if are not taken into account can end up [...]
One of the most popular games when it comes to poker is the No Limit Hold ‘Em cash game. In a tournament, when your chips run out, your day is over, you spend a lot of your time protecting and defending you stack, where in a cash game it pays to be aggressive, and if [...]
Novice poker players are quite straight forward when it comes to playing the cards that they are dealt. As ones poker knowledge increases, we learn to bluff, and semi bluff, we learn to put opponents on hands, and one of the most important things we learn is fold equity and that is what leads to [...]
In my experience, perhaps the most difficult hand to play in tournaments is Ace-King. I’m no where near an expert, but I feel I’ve made enough mistakes with this hand to have a clearer picture of how to play it optimally. Earlier in my poker career, I could have saved myself thousands of dollars in [...]