The Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps.
Welcome to Step 4: Big Pots for Big Hands. If you haven’t done so already, make sure to check 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 4: Big Pots for Big Hands|235|3.95|USD|| out the previous articles in [...]

This is the first question taken from the new Message Board. I’m excited about all the action there so far. Keep the great questions coming!
From a theoretical standpoint, there’s not a whole lot different about playing 6-max limit hold’em Q&A #68: Adjusting From Full-Ring to 6-Max Limit Hold’em|234|3.95|USD|| versus full-ring. It’s mathematically almost [...]

Elaine nominated NPA in the Best Hobby Blog category for the Blogger’s Choice Awards. Show me some love and vote for me. I don’t know if I get anything if I win, but if I do, I’ll hold a contest here and regift it to …Login/Register for more.

The Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps. Check out Step 1: Play 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 3: Don’t Overcommit in Small Pots|232|3.95|USD|| Tight and Step 2: Don’t Play Out of Position if you haven’t already.
Big Pots Versus Small Pots
No-limit decisions [...]

The first few days of action on the Message Board really surprised me. It was about ten times busier than I expected it to be off the bat. That’s great, but it was so busy that I had some trouble keeping …Login/Register for more.

“Those who can’t, teach.” As someone who used to play poker fulltime and now spends more time teaching it, I hear that a lot. Frankly, I think it’s bullshit. People ask me frequently why I spend more time writing about poker now than I do playing it. It’s because teaching …Login/Register for more.

The Mission: Get you winning in your local $1-$2 no-limit game with 7 easy steps. Check out Step 1: Play 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 2: Don’t Play Out of Position|227|3.95|USD|| Tight if you haven’t already.
Don’t Play Out of Position
People playing out of position is the #1 mistake I [...]

It’s hard to find simple, unconflicted no-limit hold’em tips. Most advice contains the phrase “it depends” about twelve times. And it’s for good reason; no-limit is a complex game with more exceptions than 7 Easy Steps to No-Limit Hold’em Success — Step 1: Play Tight|224|3.95|USD|| rules.
Having said that, this week I’ve been [...]

Questions Thread #14 will be our last. I installed some message board software today, so we now have an NPA message board. You can reach it via the Message Board link in the Main Menu (which I plan on changing into a menu bar at the top …Login/Register for more.

It happens to us all more times than we’d like to count. We build a nice pot with pocket kings and then the flop comes and… BAM! There’s the ace. The way you handle it depends a lot on your opponents, the stack sizes, and more. Let’s look at a Q&A #67: Pocket Kings Flop [...]