Stealing the blinds in no-limit hold’em is an effective method of adding chips to your stack, it is especially effective in tournaments. If you are in late position preflop and your competitors have all folded to you, put in a standard X3 raise, this should be enough to win the blinds outright, because the players in the blinds are [...]
Making the correct size bet is something that novice poker players should try and master when they first start foraging into the no-limit game. It is a skill that will let you control the game and dictate how your opponents play by giving them the wrong odds when they are thinking of making a call. [...]
Making the correct size bet is something that novice poker players should try and master when they first start foraging into the no-limit game. It is a skill that will let you control the game and dictate how your opponents play by giving them the wrong odds when they are thinking of making a call. [...]
There used to be a time when poker writers would advise players to play a wider range of starting hands in early position, any pair from 77 upwards and suited cards from 10-9 to A-K, and also unsuited cards like A-10 and K-J. These days it does not pay to play all these hand ranges in an [...]
It can be a mistake to play a hand preflop, that will be easily dominated by another player. It may be tempting to play cards like A-7 in a raised pot before the flop, but if another player also holds an Ace but with a higher kicker (second card), your hand is going to be dominated [...]
It was in 2006 that Chris”Jesus”Ferguson decided on starting his bankroll challenge. The idea was that he would start with$0 on Full Tilt Poker with the intentions of building it into a bankroll of $10,000. By following a strict set of bankroll rules he achieved his goal in just a year and a half. The basis is, [...]
Ladbrokes Poker is one of the largest and most popular poker rooms in Europe. They currently do not accept players from the US. As well as having a great variety of games, including Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five- Card Stud and Five Card Draw, they also offer three different ways of playing, classic play, 3D [...]
Tom”durrrr” Dwan’ met his first challenger in Patrik Antonius, who stepped up to the plate on Wednesday to play the first session of the head to head challenge. The pair played 1,541 hands of the required 50,000, on four tables on Full Tilt poker. The game was pot-limit Omaha. The rules are that they must [...]
If you are new to no-limit poker, or poker in general, one of the basic poker principles you are going to encounter is, what hands should i play?. Now you may have seen poker on the television, where players make big plays when holding basically any two cards. But as an inexperienced player, you would lose [...]
It can be too easy to make the mistake of over-valuing suited cards, especially if they are low cards. Your suited cards only improves your chances by a small margin, and if you do hit a hand, chances are you will be beaten by a bigger flush. And of course, if you hit a pair on the flop, it [...]
If you have read any of the poker forums on the net, particularly on the subject of single table tournaments, you will be aware of this book. Colin Moshman goes way further in his strategy for this type of tourney than the usual strategy tips, such as, play very tight in the early rounds, and [...]
This years main event attracted a 680 strong field packed with the worlds top tournament players and internet qualifiers, all vying for the AUD $2 million top prize. It was Stewart Scott, who took the win and became the first Australian to win the Main Event. Scott went into the final day as chip leader by [...]
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