One of the most frustrating things that you can ever be involved in when you are playing poker is to be sitting at a table with a bunch of very tight players. If you normally play this way yourself, you will find that big pots are few and far between and minutes seem like hours [...]
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 [...]
Suited connectors are a hand that comes under much scrutiny in the poker world, but it often from those that do not understand the value of how to play the hand. These are cards that can be played from virtually any position at anytime and can bring a huge bounty. You will often hear the [...]
We have gone over how to play this very tricky hand in the two most dangerous positions, early and middle, and now it is time to go over how to play them from the catbird seat. Regardless of their size, small pocket pairs in late position can be very effective if you vary your play [...]
In part one of the series, we talked about the unenviable position of looking down at small pocket pair in early position. You want to play the hand, but there are a lot of ugly scenarios that an inexperienced player will end up doing nothing more than donating their stack. In poker middle position is [...]
