I’m excited to see so many people buying and reading Professional No-Limit Hold’em: Volume 1. It was a joy to work with my esteemed co-authors Matt Flynn and Sunny Mehta, and it’s a joy to see so many people learning from the book.
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I was impressed by how well people did on the Hidden Outs Revisited quiz. Last time I tried this three years ago, people messed up all over the place. This time around, only a few of the questions consistently tricked people.
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Hyper-aggressive limit games can be really frustrating, especially the first few times you play in them. You’re used to people calling your raises and checking to you. In this game, though, people don’t give you no respect. Someone bets, you raise, and it’s reraised and capped by two different people Q&A #60: Beating Hyper-Aggressive Limit [...]

If one of your opponents raises preflop, the natural inclination is to check the flop to the preflop raiser. The raiser is marked with a strong hand, so you might fear that you’re behind. The raiser is also likely to bet whether he hit the flop or not. Often you Q&A #52: Betting into a [...]

PeterL asks,
the following hand, I think I played the river badly and missed some bets. I know if I went to 2+2 they would say I played it well.
But I believe SSHE would reccomend betting for value here.
PokerRoom 0.15/0.30 Hold’em (8 handed)
Preflop: Hero is CO with 9 , 8 Q&A #43: A Scare Card [...]

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 [...]

T.J. asks,

It is an AA overpair hand in a 6-way capped flop, reasonably similar to your KK example in SSHE. (Original hand post can be found here.)
PokerStars 1/2 Hold’em (10 Q&A #31: More Waiting for the Turn in a Big Pot|105|3.95|USD|| handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)
Preflop: Hero is [...]

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 [...]

This article was written in January 2005 for the Two Plus Two Internet Magazine in response to a series of articles in CardPlayer written by Jim Brier. You can read the first article of the series here. To read the other articles, click on the “Previous” link at the Responding to Jim Brier|77|3.95|USD|| [...]

threads13 asks,
I have a question about a recent hand.
We have no reads on the players.
The hero is in the small blind with AA and an early position player, a middle position player, a late position player all limp in. The button then raises and the hero reraises. It Q&A #15: Playing AA from [...]