The idea of a player “limiting” their hand range is a critical hand reading concept. The basic idea is this: Anyone who has a very strong hand wants to get money in the pot. They’ll be looking for an opportunity to do that. If your opponent bypasses one or more excellent opportunities to go for [...]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Have a great day… enjoy the football and eat a lot. Since I’m a vegan, turkey won’t be on the menu for us. Turkeys are really cool birds, by the way.

If you’re from Europe or Australia or somewhere else where they don’t celebrate Thanksgiving… just eat a huge dinner and you’ll be [...]

A couple of days ago I posted an interesting hand from the message board.
The hand was played by our own threads13, and here’s how it went:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO ($50)
Button ($21.35)
SB ($105.05)
BB ($71.60)
Hero ($58.25)
MP ($44.50)
Preflop: Hero is UTG with J , J .
Hero raises [...]

It’s been a long time since my last Hand Discussion, partly because I haven’t been playing much the past few months due to nearly crushing levels of overall busyness. So I figured it was about time for a good old discussion, and I found an interesting hand from the message board that I thought would [...]

Firing the second barrel means bluffing again on the turn after your opponent called your flop bluff. It’s probably one of the most important skills to master if you want to crush no-limit games.
Second Barrel Basics
Many flop calls are made for speculative reasons. Someone has a draw they hope to improve on the turn. Or [...]

In the first no-limit book that I co-wrote with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn (as opposed to the upcoming book), Professional No-Limit Hold’em: Volume 1 (PNL1), we devoted a large chunk of the text to the concept of using Stack-to-Pot Ratios (SPR) to plan your hands and to make commitment decisions.
The SPR for a hand [...]

I mentioned last month that the new book with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn was coming along well. Since that post I took a weeklong trip to New Orleans to visit Sunny, and we used that time to really crank hard on the manuscript. On that trip we took stock of our progress, and we [...]

I wanted to clear up two major no-limit hold’em misunderstandings. They are somewhat related.
The first one is described in a comment by Ben Attenborough on recent post Playing No-Limit With A Plan.
Hey Ed, I would just like to say I think this is a very well written article which goes a long way to explaining [...]

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