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 MorePlaying out of Position in Holdem
OOP is the term used for ‘Out of Position’. Poker strategy says that you should play most of your hands in late position because you get to see what action players still in the hand make against you before making your decision how to proceed in the hand. In late position you have more information [...]
Read MoreSatellites Continue to be a Success
Chris Moneymaker turned $40 into $2.5 million in 2003 and kick started the poker boom. This trend of big wins coming from satellite winners continued right into 2010 with recent Aussie Millions champion Tyron Krost turning a $600 AUD satellite into the $10,000 AUD buy-in going on to win a first prize of $2 million [...]
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 MoreThe Maven System About To Launch
Over the past nine months I have watched the hype cleverly increased over time regarding David Chicotsky and Ari Engel and their training facility. They have set up a state of the art poker training centre in Las Vegas designed to train people in their specific poker tournament strategy and despite many negative comments about [...]
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 [...]
Supersystem examined part four
It must be pointed out that Brunson readily admits in that book that his style of play would struggle to be successful in poker games where there was not an awful lot of money on the table. An overall lack of money on the table would mean that his aggressive style of pushing players out [...]
Read MoreSupersystem examined part three
It personally took me countless readings of Doyle’s no limit section and a whole load of further studying to boot to finally comprehend what he was really saying. Up until then, I had merely thought that I understood and it was only when I went back and read my earlier notes that I realised just [...]
Read MoreSupersystem examined part two
But without a shadow of a doubt, the overwhelming weight of support for Supersystem has come because of what Doyle wrote about his favourite form of poker….No Limit Texas Hold em poker. In fact the term “The Cadillac of Poker” has also gone along way towards the book achieving cult status as this is now [...]
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