I’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also. But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to [...]

They said it couldn’t be done. They meaning me. A starting hand chart for no-limit? Can’t be done. There are too many variables. For as long as I’ve been writing about poker, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with starting hand charts. Mostly skewed towards hate. They are, by their nature, quite imprecise. Yet they have [...]

I’m excited to see so many people buying and reading Professional No-Limit Hold’em: Volume 1. It was a joy to work with my esteemed co-authors Matt Flynn and Sunny Mehta, and it’s a joy to see so many people learning from the book. Before it went to print, 2+2 edited out the bulk of the [...]

The maintenance is finished. I switched hosts, so for the next day or so you may see some flaky behavior (i.e., you may see a message that says the site is still undergoing maintenance) due to the updating DNS records. There’s not much I can do about it except to wait it out. In the [...]

There will be some downtime for maintenance tonight, August 17th, and possibly tomorrow morning as well. Shouldn’t be a big deal.