What scuppers many players in Texas Holdem poker tournaments is the lack of ability at playing short handed. Some of the weaker players who either bust out early or survive until the middle stages or if they are lucky, just squeeze into the money in most cases have no experience of heads up play or [...]
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Limit play from the flop onwards part one
Right, so what do you want me to say and tell you here? Poker goes way beyond giving people a few hand examples. You could put five hundred hand examples in a book, in fact make it a thousand and it will still not prepare you for actual play. Do not be disappointed with what [...]
Read MoreA Hand in Action at No Limit Holdem part two
Having another strong player at Texas Hold’em hold superior position over you robs you of many plays that you can make. For instance, you will have to be far more selective about attacking the blinds from the cut-off. Also if a weaker player limps in and you raise to try and isolate against them then [...]
Read MoreA Hand in Action at No Limit Holdem part one
This is a concept that could easily be applied to any level and even though it was played at the $10-$20 no limit Texas Hold’em level at www.pokerstars.co.uk , it could just as well be played at any other. In fact, this has nothing to do with the actual playing of the hand but in [...]
Read MoreSmall blind play in no limit holdem
I have included this example from small stakes online poker to highlight what I believe to be a serious flaw in the games of many small stakes players. This was a hand that was sent to me by a player who later became one of my students. He was in the small blind with the [...]
Read MoreButton play in no limit holdem part two
So I think that it is essential that you at least try and get your technically weaker opponents to commit more money to the pot and this applies whether you play poker online or live. If they are playing tightly and are refusing to commit any money unless they have a lock or strong poker [...]
Read MoreButton Play in No Limit Holdem part one
I wanted to speak about this low stakes no limit Texas Holdem example in simply because it highlights a flaw that many weak tight low stakes players have. In fact with nearly all of these hand examples, you tend to find players at higher stakes poker equally guilty of the mistakes that I am pointing [...]
Read MoreNo Limit Play in the Big Blind
In this particular hand then the stakes are irrelevant and once again it is the concept that is important. In this No Limit Texas Hold’em poker hand I held the 8c-7d and after only being in the game for about five minutes in this six max game, it was folded around to the button who [...]
Read MorePlaying Omaha part two
It is better to have a 2% return on investment on a million pounds than a 10% return on one hundred grand. These figures do not represent my actual ROI in Pot Limit Omaha Holdem poker but just to highlight a point about the gambling nature of PLO. This is why I believe that many [...]
Read MorePlaying Omaha part one
In this hand I want to highlight a principle that I use in other forms of poker and especially limit hold’em and no limit hold’em. This principle is to raise apparent weak limpers in an effort to get dead money in the pot. I like to do this in PLO because of the fact that [...]
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