Over the next week or two I’ll be posting a few short excerpts from our upcoming new e-book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em. Right now we’re finalizing a release date. (The only thing holding up the announcement right now is a detail related to the technical rendering and distribution of the final e-book.) Once we finalize [...]

Light 3-betting plays a large role in online 6-max games. If you fold too often to potentially light 3-bets, you risk getting run over. If you play back too often at potentially light 3-bets, you risk giving too much action. It can be a fine line. Today’s question comes from James Q&A #123: Sticking It [...]

Quite a few short stackers play in the $2-$4 and higher online 6-max no-limit games. Many of them play a strategy that seems likely to me to be profitable. I think a decent chunk of their profit comes from The Short Stackers’ Bread And Butter Play|730|3.95|USD|| a play that I see them make repeatedly that [...]

A few months back I wrote an article about playing suited connectors titled “How Suited Connectors Are Costing You Money.” The basic premise of the article was that a lot of people play suited connectors in the wrong situations and with the wrong expectations. If you’re limping in and calling raises preflop, you’re picking the [...]

The isolation play is one of the most profitable weapons in the professional cash game player’s arsenal. Yet it is also one of the least understood by most amateur players. Teaching the play thoroughly would take a book, not an article, so my goal here is merely to try to shed some light on the [...]

Quite a few short stackers play in the $2-$4 and higher online 6-max no-limit games. Many of them play a strategy that seems likely to me to be profitable. I think a decent chunk of their profit comes from a play that I see them make repeatedly that I think many full stacked regulars don’t [...]

This is a rapid fire article on playing small pocket pairs preflop in 6-max no-limit. By small pairs I mean roughly 66 and worse. I’m going to give you some basic rules of thumb and an outline of the general reasoning behind them. I’m not going to go in-depth because Playing Small Pocket Pairs Preflop [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ever since I started making the Poker Made Simple series at Stoxpoker, I’ve been regularly playing the $0.25-$0.50 blind 6-max games on Full Tilt to get a better feeling for what topics to emphasize in my simplified strategy for beating these games. One thing that I know frustrates a A No-Limit Four-Bet Preflop Bluff |400|3.95|USD|| [...]