Following on from part four then and we have the fifth and final part of this series here. The reason why I said that this was more subtle was because a player must be at a certain level of sophistication in order to realise what the odds are for hitting outs themselves before they can [...]
Read MoreLooking for the poker fish part four
In the last article, we took a look at some of the things that identify a weak player. In this article, we will start looking at spotting “fish” through the quality of their play. There is a large amount of information on this subject that I feel that I need to share with you and [...]
Read MoreLooking for the poker fish part two
This series of articles will help you identify two very important key areas in Texas Holdem poker. Firstly, how to spot a fish and secondly, realising if you yourself fall into this category. I am going to concentrate on visual and audible information given to us by observing and listening to our opponents in this [...]
Read MoreLooking for the poker fish part one
A “fish” in live poker or online poker is a polite term for a weak player, a losing player or a beginner. In poker games the world over, weak players are known by various names and many of them are not pleasant. Be it “rabbit, fish, mug, live one, sucker, chip dumper, greenhorn” or any [...]
Read MoreOnline Poker Universities – Advantages versus Disadvantages
Even though you may love a good game with your family or friends and think you are proficient enough to win playing for money in real, it will pose a real challenge to get on with gambling online for real money. While playing with family and friends can always be fun, it can be quite [...]
Read MorePart 1 – How to Defeat your Opponents by Observing Them
Poker players win pots by forcing their opponents to fold or winning when both players turn over their hole cards and reveal the strength of their hands. Part of learning to play poker better is to learn to read your opponents and calculate what their hand strength is compared to your own. In this two [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part three
Carrying on from part two and firstly you don’t know who the eighteen year old kid is and secondly you don’t know how he earns his money and how long he has been playing the game so you don’t really know if he is a winner at all but yet you are trying to emulate [...]
Read MoreA Profile of Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman is a professional poker player and a member of Team Full Tilt. She is the only woman to have consistently played in the big game in Bobby’s Room where she has played for many years against players of the calibre of Doyle Brunson, the late Chip Reese and her good friend Daniel Negreanu. [...]
Read MoreWhich poker hand would you rather have?
The question is rather straight forward, which poker hand would you rather have? Well I haven’t told you the hands yet or the situation but the game is deep stacked no-limit Texas Hold’em and the two hands in question are Qd-Qs and 7d-6d. I can almost hear you all now saying how this is a [...]
Read MoreRisky raising in no limit holdem
Often when you raise in no limit Texas Hold’em, it will be in situations where your hand isn’t strong enough for that line of betting. In deep stack cash games then this can be a very serious problem. In poker tournaments then it is different because the blind to stack ratio is much smaller. So [...]
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