Poker Strategy
Suited Connectors – Poker Strategy
Suited connectors are pretty hands but they are easily overvalued by newer players. The problem with suited connectors is that they don’t result in big hands as often as we’d like to think.
Suited connectors don’t make strong hands very often, but when they do hit hands, they will surprise the … more
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Double or Nothing Sit and Go Strategy
Double or Nothing SNGs are a relatively new form of poker that you can find online at PokerStars. The general idea is that 10 players join the tournament and the top 5 players double their money. The other 5 players go home empty handed
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Poker Satellite Tournament Strategy
Note – see Satellite Tournaments Explained if you are completely unfamiliar with satellite tournaments.
Satellite tournaments are often forgotten but they can actually be quite profitable. There are many poker players out there who specialize in winning satellite tournaments over and over again and selling off the additional tournament seats that … more
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Poker MTT Tournament Bankroll
Short Answer: 100 Buyins
If you’re looking for a quick answer, the most commonly used number for MTT bankroll questions is 100 buyins.
Long Answer
There are a lot of things that can change the optimum size of your bankroll but this is the most popular number for players who want to continue … more
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Basic Freeroll Tournament Strategy
The play at freeroll tournaments is absolutely atrocious. This might be frustrating at first but you’ll soon see how easy it is to do well at freeroll tournaments. If you play a tight game and let the crazy players hang themselves, you can do very well at freeroll tournaments.
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Staying Unreadable
At the lower stakes no limit games, tight straightforward play is the best way to profit but as you move up in stakes it becomes increasingly important to mix up your play. At the medium and high stakes levels, you’ll see the same opponents quite often and you can bet … more
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10 Live Poker Tips
I can’t speak enough about the advantages online poker offers over live but even I sometimes have to play live poker. Sometimes it comes up during friends’ live poker parties and other times I just like to get out of the house and interact with other humans, even if they … more
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Inducing Bluffs
When you have a strong hand but you know your opponent doesn’t have anything at all, all hope of you getting paid isn’t lost. No matter what the situation in poker is, there’s always a way to extract money from your strong hands. When your opponents are weak, you can’t … more
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A Lesson in Theory
There’s not always a right and wrong in every hand
Note – This article has more of a theory angle to it than a pure tactics or strategy angle. Most of my articles are concrete, how-to explanations of poker but this one is a little different.
I still think this article is … more
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Board Textures
What the heck is a board texture? Well, umm, it’s the texture of the flop. Ok the flop texture is basically a way to describe the general “feel” of the flop. What I mean by that is which flops are likely to have hit which hands.
As you probably know by … more
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