Your opponent – perhaps sensing weakness or perhaps taking leave of his senses – pushes out a huge bet and dares you to call. If he has the hand he’s supposed to have, you’re crushed. But you think something is amiss and decide that this is it. You’re going to take a stand. Just after [...]

Dry boards sometimes offer a golden opportunity to get extra value for your medium strength hands like top pair. Many players are always looking to sniff out a bluff on a dry board, and you can use that fact to your advantage if you have a hand that beats a typical bluff catcher. In particular, [...]

Many tournament players make a consistent mistake. They focus too much on conserving their chips and preserving their “tournament life,” and in doing so they leave big pots hanging out to dry.
I see it frequently when I play tournaments. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The blinds are 200-400, and the big blind [...]

When you’re out of position with a made hand, the most common decision is whether to bet your hand for value or to check it, looking to induce a bluff.
I find that most players tend to make this decision more based on their overall style than on any individual situation. Some players tend to bet [...]

Recently I benefited from a serious case of what I call adjustment tilt. I was in a live $2-$5 no-limit game. Most of the players, including me, had helped to start the game a few hours earlier, so we were familiar with each others’ play.
Some of the players had modestly weak-tight tendencies, so I made [...]

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A few days ago I posted a hand reading quiz for Omaha. If you haven’t tried out the quiz yet, check it out before reading on.
Here are the answers:

1
T 9 8 8
A Q T 3
A 5 7 7

8 outs - [...]

Hold’em players who try to learn Omaha inevitably have some difficulties at some point with reading the board. It’s a little tricky. Not only do the extra hole cards add complexity, but you have to play exactly three board cards and two cards from your hand. If you’re used to reading hold’em boards, you’ll definitely [...]

Slowplaying is seemingly one of the most tempting no-limit strategies. Flop a huge hand, and, in the immortal words of Elmer Fudd, be vewy vewy quiet. It fits with the image of poker as a game of deception; little do your opponents know that you’re waiting in the weeds ready The Pitfalls Of Slowplaying|465|3.95|USD|| [...]

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