The longer I’ve played poker, the more I’ve become convinced that a single concept is truly at the core of nearly all successful strategies. It’s a concept that is as important playing no-limit hold’em as it is at limit stud eight-or-better. This central concept is extracting thin value. It’s a simple Thin Value|974|3.95|USD|| idea. On [...]

Stacking your opponent is the ultimate no-limit high. There’s nothing more exhilarating than winning a huge pot. But, beyond that, stacking opponents is a critical no-limit skill. I’ve noticed that the best players tend to be far more adept than the average player at encouraging opponents to part with all …Login/Register for more.

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. The consideration is your overall comfort level at Hand Reading And Moving [...]

These days I’m continuing to work furiously on the new no-limit book with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn. We’ve made excellent progress. We have finished writing everything, and we’re in the editing stage. At the end of last week we finished edited together the first 160 pages or so which Book Update And Value Betting [...]

Dry boards sometimes offer a golden opportunity to get extra value for your medium strength hands like top pair. Many players are always looking to sniff out a bluff on a dry board, and you can use that fact to your advantage if you have a hand that beats a Extracting Bonus Value On Dry [...]

The New Book Today marks an important internal deadline for our new small stakes no-limit hold’em book. It’s the day that we’re completely finished writing. Now we just need to edit (though we’ve done a fair amount of that already), proofread, and typeset/lay it out. I’m not completely sure how long A Few Loosely Connected [...]

I wanted to clear up two major no-limit hold’em misunderstandings. They are somewhat related. The first one is described in a comment by Ben Attenborough on recent post Playing No-Limit With A Plan. Hey Ed, I would just like to say I think this is a very well written article which goes a long way [...]

The great thing about poker is that nearly all of us have room to improve our games. Many players who beat small stakes live games at a decent clip could win more money if they tried these three simple things more often. Taking Control Of The Game Many small stakes live games are relatively passive. [...]

The river really separates the pros from the amateurs. I don’t mean that pros tremble in fear of the river card while amateurs gleefully plan their latest bad beat. Quite the opposite, the river is probably the betting round where pro players generate the greatest edge over their amateur adversaries. Amateur players tend not to [...]

In Part 1 of Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll, 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, you should consider some other factors just as much. The first factor is your overall comfort level at [...]