Cash games tend to be relatively static. The blinds don’t change. The stack sizes can vary, but they tend to vary from fairly deep to really deep. And after any hand you can get up from the table and cash your chips in for dollars. So each chip is always Q&A #107: Classifying Tournament Stages|455|3.95|USD|| [...]

No doubt you’ve heard from many a person that the key to poker is never to call. Raise or fold. If you can’t raise, throw it away.
It’s perhaps useful advice for a casual player who hasn’t yet seen how powerful aggression can be. But I think it’s also very limiting Resisting The Raising Reflex In [...]

I’m taking a little mini-vacation this week, so I don’t have a full-length post for you today. But I figured I’d toss out a quick little concept that Dusty Schmidt (Leatherass) mentioned recently in a Stoxpoker video. I don’t remember what he called it, but I call the play …Login/Register for more.

I tried writing this review a few times, but I was never happy with it. Frankly, I never thought what I had written did the book justice. It can be hard to explain to others why they should read Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo because no other poker …Login/Register for more.

The button in no-limit is an immensely profitable position. For me it is far more profitable than any other position. Even the cutoff, which can offer the illusion that it’s almost as good, isn’t really close.
When everyone folds to me on the button in an online 6-max game, and I Q&A #106: Opening On The [...]

My original vision for this site was that it would be free to read. I always intended to make money from it, but I wanted that money to come from advertising, from donations, and from other sources, not from my readers. For a year and a half I’ve been delighted …Login/Register for more.

We poker wonks tend to like to analyze individual hands. I had this and did this. Then my opponent did that. Then I did this, but actually I think doing this other thing might have been more profitable.
Then we write a thousand word article about the merits of doing this How Wide Are Your Ranges?|447|3.95|USD|| [...]

Here are some quick thoughts for this warm Spring morning.

There’s a lot of money to be made on the river in the $1-$2 6-max no-limit games on Full Tilt. A lot of the regulars miss value bets a lot, and they fold too many hands to overbet shoves even if …Login/Register for more.

If you play online no-limit, at least at the $0.50-$1 level or above, you’re bound to run into the light 3-bet. You open for $3.50 on the button in a $0.50-$1 game, the small blind folds, and then the big blind makes it $12 to go.
Now that’s just a 3-bet. Combatting Light 3-Bets By 4-Betting [...]

A couple of days ago I posted a relatively routine no-limit hand for discussion. I say it’s routine not because it isn’t important, but because it’s the type of situation that arises regularly. For reference, here’s the original hand.
I’m in the big blind in a $1-$2 6-max game with Hand Discussion #13: My Thoughts|444|3.95|USD|| [...]