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 [...]
Read MoreCan you handle the variance part four
You will have read and heard many times that you should not play when you are tired or disturbed for any reason or if a particular poker table is quite tough with good players inhabiting it. Game conditions and your own mental and physical state can seriously impede your chances of winning money and you [...]
Read MoreCan you handle the variance part three
The potential problems arise when you hit this bad run straight away or very early on in your poker career. It is at this stage where you are still emotionally and psychologically at your most fragile because you have yet to achieve the results that will install confidence into you to continue through the bad [...]
Read MoreCan you handle the variance part two
Following on from part one then…….you may say fine, that the guy should not have tilted and you would be correct! You may also say that he should not have switched to playing no limit Texas Hold em poker and you would also have been correct! You might have figured that playing heads up was [...]
Read MoreBet Sizing part three
Following on from part two, If a 7 came on the turn to make a board of 8-6-5-7 then a player with two pair is not going to commit any more money, not serious money anyway and you have lost your chance to bust them. But being able to go all in on the flop [...]
Read MoreBet Sizing part two
But what if the pot has already been raised and you have a raising hand yourself, well remember BIG POT BIG HAND, either fold or learn to raise properly. Let us say that you have KK so you have the best poker hand unless you happen to be unlucky enough to be up against aces. [...]
Read MoreBet Sizing part one
What separates limit Texas Hold’em poker from pot limit and no limit is how much the player can bet on each subsequent round of play. Players get protected an awful lot in limit poker play because the amount of the bet is fixed. This means that they cannot make an error in how much they [...]
Read MoreLooking at the basic math in poker
Many novice poker players struggle with the basic math of the game. In this article I want to show you an easy way to calculate the odds and percentages of making your hand on the turn and the river. Number of outs X 2 + 2 = % So if you have a flush draw [...]
Read MoreThe Perils of Playing Live Poker part two
Whenever a player is playing poker online then has already been mentioned, the software does basically everything for you except make your decisions. But there are other areas that need to be attended to in live poker games that many online players simply take for granted. For instance, because you can see all of the [...]
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