Playing more than one table at a time is something that a lot of beginning players may find intimidating, but it is something that you are going to have to do if you want to be a successful online poker player. If you keep popping from table to table, you are hurting your chances more [...]
Getting to any final table is a great accomplishment in poker. When you get down to the final three or four, the play can get difficult and the swing from first to third is still pretty dramatic. Regardless of the chip lead that you have, there are times that you have to start thinking about [...]
Bluffing is something that far too many players try far too often. The main reason is that amateur players see these moves on television and don’t realize that it may have taken the player hours to set up that one move on one specific player. The program edits out the hundreds of hands that led [...]
The new school of poker teaches that aggression will always pay off. What a lot of the current younger players don’t understand is that there is a phrase that is missing from that teaching and that is ‘well timed’. When you constantly play the same way, all you do is allow yourself to get set [...]
Re-buy tournaments can be a lot of fun, but they can also kill your bankroll of you are not careful. Many poker players get excited about the guarantees and then figure that it is only $x and it’s no big deal as long as they don’t re-buy and add on. The problem is, unless you [...]
While most players look at this as a perfect slow play opportunity, the board and amount of players left is going to dictate exactly how you proceed when you flop a set. Now before we go any further, you need to realize the difference between a set and trips and yes there is one. Trips [...]
Poker is unpredictable, no matter how much you think you know what the other player’s are holding in their hands, there is always the chance that you could be wrong, this uncertainty challenges the mind and makes the game into a contest of skill, memory and psychology. Elements that make the game exciting, different and [...]