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 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 MorePart 2 – How to Defeat your Opponents by Observing Them
In Part 1 we discussed whether your Poker opponents use a certain style in your games of No Limit Texas Hold’em. Your opponents always offer clues on how to beat them, no style is absolutely unbeatable. This is what makes playing poker so exciting, even the amateur player can defeat the professional player despite a [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part two
Carrying on from part one then and you end the session only to see it continue tomorrow and then…..snap! Something happens in your mind and you are no longer playing the same. I don’t mean that you are tilting, but those strategies that you had picked up from having read those books no longer seem [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part one
What, you think that limit Texas Hold’em is easy do you? Just because you only have a tiny percentage of your buy in at risk at any one time you think that this is a game for boys and not men! If no limit hold’em is the “Cadillac of Poker” then is limit hold’em a [...]
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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