Having position bestows an enormous advantage. But to make the most of the advantage, you have to employ what I call tactics of ambiguous aggression. You make plenty of bets and raises in position. Sometimes those bets and raises imply a strong hand, and they signify more bets and raises to come. Other times those [...]

Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. An image enters the eye and hits the back of the retina. Almost immediately the brain goes to work trying to fill in the blanks. Was only half of a face in view? Just the back of a head? The brain seamlessly fills in the missing information, creating an image [...]

The big day is just one week away! Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em, the affordable no-limit hold’em e-book, is coming out one week from today on June 16.
We now have a cover.

And updated since I last posted it, here is the final table of contents. You can learn more about the e-book by reading the Small [...]

Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em is soon to be released upon the world!
Preordering will start Tuesday, June 2 and last for two weeks until the release date of June 16. During preordering you can buy the affordable poker e-book for $39.95 – 60% off the regular price of $99.95.
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It happens to us all more times than we’d like to count. We build a nice pot with pocket kings and then the flop comes and… BAM! There’s the ace. The way you handle it depends a lot on your opponents, the stack sizes, and more. Let’s look at a Pocket Kings Flop An Ace… [...]

Today we completed all the editing on the new e-book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em. This is a big milestone. The book is now final. All we have left to do is layout (basically make it look pretty) and then a final proofreading pass to make sure the prettying process didn’t break anything.
Editing took a few [...]

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 Beat The Rake|836|3.95|USD|| [...]

Here’s another quick excerpt from the new e-book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em. This excerpt represents one of the many, many hand examples in the new book. If you haven’t seen it, also check out last week’s excerpt The Light 3-Bet.
Ace-Jack Offsuit In The Small Blind
Stacks are $200. Everyone folds to you in the small blind, [...]

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 the [...]

Have you heard someone say that they’re raising in order to sweeten the pot? Do you think they’re nuts? Or is there method to their madness?
Recently a reader asked me whether his skepticism about pot-sweetening raises was justified, or if he was missing out on a valuable weapon for his Sweetening The Pot In No-Limit|816|3.95|USD|| [...]