The final hand always gets the most attention. It could be the last hand of a grueling heads-up battle to determine a million dollar tournament winner. Or it could just be the hand you busted out on in your local Wednesday night tournament. Either way, chances are that you (and The Final Hand|977|3.95|USD|| [...]
Tags: andrew-prock, commitment, equity, no-limit-holdem, poker, poker-tournaments, pokerstove, pot-odds, spr, stack-to-pot ratio, world series of poker main event, wsopIn the first no-limit book that I co-wrote with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn (as opposed to the upcoming book), Professional No-Limit Hold’em: Volume 1 (PNL1), we devoted a large chunk of the text to the concept of using Stack-to-Pot Ratios (SPR) to plan your hands and to make commitment decisions.
The SPR for a hand [...]
I’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also.
But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to build [...]
I’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also.
But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to build [...]
I’ve always thought a true starting hand chart for no-limit was out of reach. Preflop play in no-limit cash games is very malleable; a wide array of different styles and strategies can work well, and your opponents’ stack sizes and styles matter a lot also.
But then I figured, what the heck. Let’s try to build [...]
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 [...]
This question deals with concepts from our new book Professional No-Limit Hold ‘em: Volume I. If you don’t have it yet, what are you waiting for? It’s jam-packed with tons of no-limit goodness.
Professional No-Limit Hold’em introduces a few concepts Q&A #82: Overpairs and the Committment Threshold|307|3.95|USD|| that will be new to many players. [...]
