In live play, the only thing you have to do to win a pot at showdown is put your two cards face-up on the table (and, obviously, have the best hand). Once you do that, if the dealer accidentally mucks your hand or drops the deck or has a heart Q&A #89: Is It A [...]

“Nice call, donkey.” Ever hear the winning player say that? No. It’s the blame game. He lost the pot, and now he’s looking for someone to blame.
Even though many of us do it, obviously it’s silly to blame all the “donkeys” at the table for your bad session. Though bad Q&A #88: Blame Others, Blame [...]

Almost everyone is familiar with a per-hand rake. In each pot, the house takes out a few dollars as its cut. In live play, this rake is often taken $1 for every $10 in the pot, capped at $4 per pot (in the United States), So if the final pot Q&A #87: Rake and Time [...]

A week ago I talked about how you can sometimes use your opponents’ words against them. In that hand, I had a decision that perhaps could have gone either way, but then my opponent said something and cleared everything up for me.
This week wahoointexas brings us another tells-related Q&A #86: Weak Means Strong… Sometimes|324|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 Q&A #85: Resisting the Raising [...]

This is the mother of all poker questions. I’ve probably seen a variant of this question asked almost a thousand times. Can a game be too good/loose/soft? Do you actually want some good players in your game? Can a bunch of schooling fish turn even the best player into a Q&A #84: Can A No-Limit [...]

You’re playing in a live $2-$5 game, and you buy in for the $500 maximum. About thirty minutes into your session, you catch AA on the button. You raise preflop, get called, and a king flops. Two cards later, you’ve beaten AK out of a nice-sized pot, and your stack Q&A #83: Adjusting to a [...]

This question deals with concepts from our new book Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I. If you don’t have it yet, what are you waiting for? It’s jam-packed with tons of no-limit goodness.
Professional No-Limit Hold’em introduces a few concepts Q&A #82: Overpairs and the Committment Threshold|307|3.95|USD|| that will be new to many players. [...]

I’m this month’s “expert” on InternetTexasHoldem.com’s series “Ask An Expert”. I’ve gotten a lot of great questions over there, and a couple weeks back I posted some links to a few of them.
This morning I answered a question that I wanted to share with you. Da_Big_Fish asked simply, Q&A #81: The 3 Basic Components of [...]

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 Q&A #80: When Slowplays Attack|297|3.95|USD|| [...]