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 MoreOnline play vs live play part one
So where do you play Texas Hold’em poker? Are you the type of player who sits in casino card rooms feeling frustrated at seeing nothing more than thirty hands per hour if you are lucky? Or are you the super high tech type of poker player who has twelve tables minimised on an enlarged computer [...]
Read MoreTrouble Hands in No Limit Poker part three
HAND 4 K – Q I don’t know what it is about this hand, maybe it’s the two high paint cards that attract players but K-Q is a very dangerous hand to play in any Texas Holdem game. This is a marginal hand at best to call raises with in limit hold’em let alone no-limit. [...]
Read MoreTrouble Hands in No Limit Poker part two
HAND 2 J – 10 suited Some years ago, there was a lot of debate about the relative merits of J-10 suited. This even led to some people claiming that it was the best hand in online Texas Holdem. This is utter rubbish because pocket aces are the best starting hand pre-flop in any form [...]
Read MoreTrouble Hands in No limit Poker part one
In Holdem poker games the world over whether it be limit or no limit, tournaments or cash games, live play or online, millions of players have major problems with certain types of hands. Although it has to be said that my good friend Jim has a problem with them all…..sorry Jimbo! It is true though [...]
Read MoreThe perils of playing live poker part one
“What do you mean, I need to watch myself”. A very direct question to what had been a very direct warning from me. A close friend of mine called Dave had been playing poker for about a year and he had only ever played online. He had asked me for advice on poker about a [...]
Read MoreThe 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 [...]
Read MoreThe 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 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 [...]
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