Pre-flop action: when your stack tells you to push all in after an opponent's raise
Go all in after an opponent's raise when you have less than eight times your original bet. You need to keep increasing your chip stack to win...
Go all in after an opponent's raise when you have less than eight times your original bet. You need to keep increasing your chip stack to win...
If there is no raise yet, push All in preflop immediately if you have 9BB or less. Even the best plans sometimes don't work. Your chip stack is low and...
In November 2002, I played in my first WPT (world poker tour) tournament at the Lucky Chances Casino in Colma, California. A very interesting fact about Colma is...
Stealing from the small blind. One of the interesting facts about tournament poker is that people are very passive in blind vs blind duels. While the player on the...
When everyone is down to your Button, don't wiggle, just stick it in. Everyone knows that if everyone crawls up to you on the Button, you have to crawl in anticipation...
There is already so much material on A-K that it can be overwhelming. Today, some players just immediately push all-in pre-flop, and...
When the tournament is halfway through, start the rounds with the same colour switches in position. Suited connectors are difficult to play with at all stages of the tournament. Early in the tournament, you want to be able to...
During the bubble phase, be more aggressive and use a wider range of hands just before you get to the money. The person who finishes on the bubble is the one who is the last one out...
This was in March 2004, when the poker boom caused by Chris Moneymaker was just beginning. I signed up for the 1000$ no-limit hold-em tournament at the Reno Hilton casino, along with...
One of the challenges of major poker tournaments is playing against poker professionals. Professional players are much more aggressive and are much more likely to call pre-flop. Often, they even...