Texas Holdem

SNG Strategy: The ICM Concept

What is ICM?

The ICM concept (Independent Chip Modeling) is an extremely important tool for playing sit and goes at the $50 level. In essence, it’s a way of calculating your SNG equity during any part of the game, taking into account your stack size, the stack size of the remaining … more

Fish Are Not Your Enemy

You wouldn’t believe how many e-mails I get and conversations I have with poker players who are upset about the fish in their poker games. It’s very common for me to hear people say they don’t like to play online because there are so many fish who call … more

10 Reasons Why You Suck at Poker

Even if you’re a winning player, there are still things that you do every day that cost you money. These mistakes are called “leaks” because they act like a leaky faucet in your bathroom. Sure, you still get water when you need water, but the plumbing isn’t working at its … more

The Squeeze Play in Poker

The Squeeze play is an advanced bluff that you can use in both tournament poker and no limit cash games. It’s a powerful move but like all powerful moves, it comes with a significant amount of risk, especially for tournament players.

Used at the right time, however, the squeeze play is … more

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

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.

The key … more

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

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

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

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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