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 The Three Stages Of A [...]

Whenever I have a bad session, I spend the next hour or two doing a post-mortem in my head. What went wrong? Could I have done something different to play better and (presumably) lose less money? I go through all the significant hands and analyze my play. Should I have Are You Paying Off Too [...]

One common scenario confounds nearly every beginning hold’em player. People ask me about it time and time again. If they hold a big pocket pair, and an overcard comes on the flop, they are lost. They are doubly lost if they have to navigate the minefield of an overcard from Alas, An Overcard|934|3.95|USD|| [...]

In my last article, I discussed how the relative strength of your hand reading skills versus your opponents’ can help determine whether you’re ready to move up to higher stakes games. The river betting round is the one that allows you to benefit most from sharp hand reading, so it’s Bluffing And Moving Up|930|3.95|USD|| [...]

In my last article, I claimed that the two factors most cited in discussions of moving up, winrate and bankroll, don’t tell the whole story. If you’re thinking about moving up to a higher stakes game, you should also consider some other factors.
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Are you ready to move up to higher stakes? How can you know when you are?
These questions are on the minds of most serious players at least some of the time. Conquering your current game and moving on to bigger and better things is the goal of most players.
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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.
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If you’ve played much no-limit, you’ve no doubt at some point run into a hyper-aggressive player. This player is constantly betting and raising with little pretense of actually holding strong hands each time. In many games, a hyper-aggressive player will thrive because no one has the guts to fight back. Fighting Back|914|3.95|USD|| He [...]

Blind stealing and blind defense. What hands should I do it with? Should I do it more short-handed? What factors affect whether I try a blind steal or whether I defend my blind. These questions are extremely common. I get asked them in many forms. Unfortunately, a complete answer could Does Short-Handed Play Affect Blind [...]

We’re extremely flattered by all the great reviews coming in for Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em. Today we found one from ML4L who is a long-time respected high stakes no-limit poster on 2+2. Here’s what he had to say about the book:
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