November was a great month for NPA. Our regular daily readership has roughly tripled since the beginning of the month. Thanks a lot for making NPA a new daily part of your life. My goal for this site is to offer the best (roughly) daily poker strategy read on the web. …Login/Register for more.

Paul asks, love the new site and that you have rss going. here’s a hand I played that I thought was a tough decision, interested to get your thoughts: 5/10 NL online, 1k effective stacks. not much info on villian, he has called a lot on early streets and frequently bet big Q&A #22: Out [...]

This morning I saw a post on pocketfives where someone claims they just received an audit notice from the IRS. They say they did everything they were supposed to do (filed quarterly estimates and reported the income) and they still got an audit notice The Audits are Coming|78|3.95|USD|| from the IRS. A year ago I [...]

setosevens asks, Hi Ed.� What a great site. I’ve got a hand here that a friend of mine played online the other night and we had a bit of a disagreement about it.� I was fairly confident about what the best play was, but it differed from how he played Q&A #21: Protecting Top Pair [...]

This article was written in January 2005 for the Two Plus Two Internet Magazine in response to a series of articles in CardPlayer written by Jim Brier. You can read the first article of the series here. To read the other articles, click on the “Previous” link at the Responding to Jim Brier|77|3.95|USD|| bottom of [...]

A while back, I did seven interactive limit hold ‘em hand quizzes for cgtv.com. Here are the links to these quizzes. Please let me know if the links break at some point. Limpers & Bluffers Opposite Day The Bitter Part of Valor Beating Raul Deja Vu Lights! Camera! Action!

eng4410 asks, $10 SNG on Stars. Table has been playing tight overall, most hands 2-or-3 handed or folded around. No specific reads on the BB yet. Is it too early to get stacked here with an overpair? How are you handling this situation most of the time? Poker Stars No Limit Holdem Tournament Blinds: 25/50 [...]

jamjoe asks, I have just recently started using the short stack strategy – been playing poker for only about 4months now so not really at all experienced. I was just wondering, even though SS might not be MAXAMIZING your ev, will it still consistantly provide you with +ev – at most limits Q&A #19: Playing [...]

Bill asks, Finished reading your No Limit Hold’em … reading it a second time and working on these tables. Might be asking the wrong half of the team but what gives with the odds of winning for the big pairs? I’ve been entering the numbers into a spreadsheet to Q&A #18: Sklansky-Chubukov Numbers|71|3.95|USD|| resort them [...]

I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. At least all the Americans. I hope you enjoy the food and football tomorrow, and I hope you spend no time at all playing poker. Unless you’re playing with your family. Then it’s ok I guess. Elaine and I are vegetarians, but we really …Login/Register for more.