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 Resisting The Raising Reflex In [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been poking through the 2+2 archives and have decided to republish some of my favorite posts for those who don’t read 2+2 (or those who didn’t read 2+2 several years ago).
Most limit Why You Guys Aren’t Crushing These Microlimit Games|237|3.95|USD|| hold’em players go through a series of stages as they learn. They [...]

With Christmas soon approaching, I figured it was time to add some Christmas spice to my little blog. So to comfort and relax you as you Q&A #39: Should a Scary Turn Card Freeze You?|123|3.95|USD|| read about limit hold ‘em, I present a Santa Claus garden gnome.
Richard asks,
I thought I would bring up [...]

setosevens asks,
Hi Ed.� What a great site.
I’ve got a hand here that a friend of mine played online the other night and we had a bit of a disagreement about it.� I was fairly confident about what the best play was, but it differed from how he played Q&A #21: Protecting Top Pair [...]

Last month I suggested people give 6-max limit hold ‘em a try. For the good player, it’s more profitable, and it will help you develop poker skills you may have been neglecting at the full tables. I should have included a caveat about higher variance, so I will do that Beating the Bettor in 6-Max [...]