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 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 [...]
Read MoreThe Perils of playing live poker part three
Dave looked puzzled, “What do you mean Carl?”. “Well lets say that I have aces in Texas Hold em poker and I communicate to you that I have them. You are first to speak and you have junk but you limp in to assist me later on in the hand. Because you have not raised, [...]
Read MoreThe Perils of Playing Live Poker part two
Carrying on from part one……“Well, you have not played any other game online apart from Texas Hold’em and you are going to be playing dealers choice in these side games so cheating is not your biggest problem Dave, it is going to be lack of knowledge of certain forms of poker.” “But to answer your [...]
Read MoreThe Long Slow Poker Grind part three
There are undoubtedly many players in this world better at poker than me but that number will diminish very rapidly to the amount of players who have worked harder than me. There is a tremendous amount of delusion within poker even by players who can be considered good and experienced. I have had several players [...]
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 MoreWhere The Money Comes From in Poker part two
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 [...]
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