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 with how that free-to-read model [...]

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 versus doing the other thing.
Analyzing [...]

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 you aren’t really representing anything [...]

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. The “light” part is what [...]

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 $200 stacks. I hold A [...]

This hand is a slightly modified version of one I played recently. It’s a routine situation that I think deserves some discussion. As with many hands, I definitely don’t think there’s one “right” way to play it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it.
I’m in the big blind in a $1-$2 [...]