There are undoubtedly many players in this world better at poker than me but that number will diminish very rapidly to the amount of players who have worked harder than me. There is a tremendous amount of delusion within poker even by players who can be considered good and experienced. I have had several players [...]
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The Long Slow Poker Grind part two
I can hear many people screaming at me, “well just how are you supposed to learn the game then Carl?” Books are a constant in what is a forever changing environment despite the fact that there are some very good poker books out there.
It is a well known but not often contemplated fact that the [...]
The Long Slow Poker Grind part one
I have made a lot of mistakes during my life and a lot of mistakes during my poker career. I don’t just mean during the actual hands themselves because with poker being a game of incomplete information then mistakes during the play of the hands are inevitable. I am talking about much more serious errors [...]
Read MoreDownshifting from Tournament Play
Because tournament poker is so radically different from cash game poker then sometimes it can be difficult to shift your mental state across to the other form of poker properly if you have played them both in a relatively short time frame. Tournament players that drop into my games while waiting for a tournament to [...]
Read MoreAdjusting to your new poker environment
An often little understood factor in playing poker online or anywhere for that matter is that unless you have done it before then it can feel very strange. Even if you are in fact an experienced online or live card room player then if you are playing in a different game or playing against different [...]
Read MoreWhere The Money Comes From in Poker part three
While we are on the subject of switching sites this brings up something else that is very important, that of site selection or switching sites just to get a sign up bonus. Buying into a site primarily to get a sign up bonus is what LOSING poker players do. There are ALWAYS other far more [...]
Read MoreWhere The Money Comes From in Poker part two
Having a couple of strong players to your left could be all it takes to turn what may have been an otherwise profitable game into one that is only break even. You see, there are different types of position in poker but the overwhelming number of amateur players who understand position only understand it by [...]
Read MoreWhere the Money Comes From in Poker part one
In this article I am going to delve into where the money comes from in poker and it is not always from where you think it is. There are very important reasons why you need to be alert to just who is sitting in the two seats to your immediate left and also the two [...]
Read MoreSupersystem examined part six
Carrying on from part five then and we can see that it highlights the need to balance your poker game so that you are not predictable to your opponents and it also highlights the difference in what constitutes a good hand in no limit poker from a dangerous hand. An A-Q in limit play is [...]
Read MoreSupersystem examined part five
You simply cannot let your opponents know that each time that you raise before the flop that you either have Broadway cards or a premium pocket pair. This would just encourage players to call your raises with mediocre hands and wait for you to miss the flop.
So you have to inject some level of uncertainty [...]
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