Tag Archives: Poker

Are you really a poker player?

It is a fallacy that all players can be good poker players but yet millions of people all over the world flock into poker for the entertainment value, excitement value and also profit potential. However poker exposes your very personality … Continue reading

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Calling 3/bets out of position

The title of this blog post is calling 3/bets out of position and I could reduce the entire post to three simple words…….don’t do it! However to simply say that you shouldn’t call 3/bets from out of position would be … Continue reading

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Is Your Thinking Fuzzy?

One of the key areas that leads to many players having problems with their poker game is when they take advice from higher level players and then try to use that advice at lower levels. Let us look at an … Continue reading

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The Check-Raise in Poker

A check-raise can be a very powerful tool when used at the right time but you do have to use it with the utmost care. This is for the simple reason that you are risking at least as much as … Continue reading

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Play More Aggressive Poker

I really think that one of the areas that really held me back during the early part of my online career was that I never “gambled” enough playing poker. I have been watching the games at 888 recently at the … Continue reading

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Don’t play fancy…play solid!

There is an old adage that “knowledge is power” and I for one am not going to argue with that. However that adage is in total conflict with another famous quote that says that “a little knowledge can be a … Continue reading

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Thinking of Range

To be able to adequately play your hand then you need to be aware of your opponents likely hand range. This allows you to make all sorts of plays post flop that you wouldn’t be able to otherwise. For example … Continue reading

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Don’t Give Your Opponents an Easy Ride

Irrespective of what you do in life or what area you look at, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people do not succeed. This is a given in any form of endeavour and the reasons … Continue reading

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The Future of Implied Odds

I was playing some low-stakes no limit ring games the other day at NL25 to help a friend of mine and I was quite surprised to see how few players actually saw the flop. In a full nine handed game … Continue reading

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Breaking down a poker hand in Hold’em

All poker hands have a profit potential attached to them and that profitability is based on several factors. The first three factors are their high card potential, straight potential and flush potential. So a hand like Jc-10c is a much … Continue reading

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