Actions before the flop: Exploiting the “Bubble”
During the bubble phase, be more aggressive, raise with a wider range of hands just before reaching the money. The person who finishes on the…
Poker strategy
POT-COMMITTED TO THE BANK
What Does It Mean to Be Pot Committed? When your pot odds are better than the odds of winning the hand, you are pot committed.…
Heads-up against David “The Dragon” Pham: All-in re-raise against the Poker Pro
This happened in March 2004, when the poker boom triggered by Chris Moneymaker was just beginning. I registered for a $1000 No-limit Hold'em tournament at…
Actions before the flop: A poker professional’s re-raise with All-in
One of the challenges in major poker tournaments is playing against poker professionals. Professional players are significantly more aggressive and raise pre-flop much more often.…
Actions before the flop: Raising aggressive opponents
If you start playing in larger tournaments or tournaments held in the same casinos, you will often start encountering the same players. This provides great…
Statistics in Poker – Second Level Interpretation
The result of all this is another link in the chain (we talked about this earlier). In the second example (from this article), it was…
Statistics in Poker – Interpretation
Introduction In this article, you will learn: How to correctly interpret statistics Why it is important to consider context when relying on statistics The dangers…
Statistics in Poker – Statistics and Their Levels
Statistics and Their Levels First part of the article: Statistics in Poker (1) – Basics (1) The Pyramid system – is a scheme that illustrates…
Actions before the flop: Which raises seem stronger?
We all know that a re-raise looks stronger than a simple raise, but some re-raises are stronger than others. Example: You have J♥-J♠, it's the…
Poker Rules
Where is the best place to play poker? Note that there are many different types of poker, which have a lot in common, but the…
