In tournament play, you make decision after decision that could result in risking all your chips. You’ll make at least one decision for all your chips in virtually every tournament you play. And in most tournaments you’ll make multiple all-in decisions.
Whenever you choose to go for it, and you lose, it’s easy to second-guess your [...]

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 [...]

Cash games tend to be relatively static. The blinds don’t change. The stack sizes can vary, but they tend to vary from fairly deep to really deep. And after any hand you can get up from the table and cash your chips in for dollars. So each chip is always Q&A #107: Classifying Tournament Stages|455|3.95|USD|| [...]

Am I a donkey?
That’s today’s question from zoomraker. My answer is a definite no, but I would have played the hands he submitted a bit differently.
The first hand is a fairly common top pair postflop situation from a $0.50 buy-in no-limit tournament:
Instead of quoting the hand history directly, I’ll Q&A #96: A No-Limit Hold’em Postflop [...]

If you haven’t been following the recent discussion about short stacks versus deep stacks in tournaments, please first read How Short Should You Go and How Short I Think You Should Go.
In the comments portion of the second article, a discussion of ICM was brought up. JJS said:
Ed Short Stacks In Tournaments, ICM, and Playing [...]

A couple of days ago I posed a question about playing various stack sizes in a series of winner-take-all 6-max tournaments. Basically, you had $10,000 in tournament chips, and you could choose to use them to buy in once for $10,000, five How Short I Think You Should Go|367|3.95|USD|| times for $2,000 each, [...]

I’ve been thinking about the various short stack versus deep stack no-limit arguments lately, and I came up with a question that I wanted to ask you guys.
You’re playing a series of 6-handed winner-takes-all no-limit tournaments. The blinds start at $50-$100, and all …Login/Register for more.

Natcheztoo asked a simple, but important question on the message board.
Okay, I’m lazy. I didn’t go back and look to see if this question had been answered at the beginning of the articles:
Will there be a difference in NL Starting Hand Charts for cash games and tournaments?
If there Q&A #92: Tournament No-Limit Versus Cash [...]

Last week we celebrated one year of NPA, and I offered a contest. Ask the best question on the message boards within a week, and win a signed copy of each of my books and DVDs.
We have a winner! Congratulations to Shrike for his question about MTT Standards.
Ed, since you’ve spent considerable time working on [...]

Whenever I get pocket kings, I get a little twinge of excitement. I can’t wait to build a pot and then win it as my overpair triumphantly holds up against someone else’s top pair.
At least that’s how it’s supposed to happen. If you’ve played hold’em for a while, though, you Q&A #90: Pocket Kings Against [...]