There are essentially three reasons why you bet all three streets in no-limit Texas Hold’em deep stacked poker games. Most players are aware of two of these reasons but not the third. If you have a strong hand or the nuts then it is clearly in your interests to bet and raise on as many [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 13, 2010
This article is about extraction. Possibly because I was at the dentist this morning trying to get medication to rid myself of a nasty gum infection and avoiding a tooth extraction this article popped into my mind. The extraction I speak of is the much more pleasant experience of extracting chips from your opponents stack [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
When you check in poker you put no chips into the pot. This is often perceived as a sign of weakness as you are indicating that, at the point of action, you are not willing to risk anymore money into the pot currently being contested. Often this will lead to your opponent betting into you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Raise when you have the best hand, fold when you are beaten. If you could implement this one sentence as your poker strategy when you play internet poker from now on you be one of the biggest winners in online poker and you would become very rich very quickly. This is, in effect, perfect poker. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 19, 2009
Poker players use various tactics to create their deception. Being deceptive in your poker play is successful when poker players at your table assume you are playing one poker strategy style but you are disguising a different style. Deception can be conducted by doing the same thing in various spots, like always raising three times [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Every poker player gets dealt around the same hands over the long term. Yet our profits vary widely from player to player. What determines whether Player A or Player B makes a living from poker and which player is the perennial losing player? Poker is certainly not about only the cards you are dealt but [...]
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