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Sit-N-Go Bubble Play
2008-04-04 18:05:00 Found @ PokerMunch.com In any poker tournament, no one wants to be the one to burst the bubble, in other words no one ever wants to be the last person to be eliminated before a prize is awarded. Experienced successful tournament players will tell you one of the most important stages in tournament play is the ... More About: Play , Bubble
10 Heads-Up Poker Tips
2008-04-04 17:50:00 From Heads -Up-Poker .org Heads-Up Poker games, where you face just one opponent, are an exiting and demanding variation of the usual ring-game format. This article contains 10 tips that will get you winning at heads-up poker. Heads-Up Poker Tip #1 ? Position Acting last after the flop is a huge advantage in poker. You get to see ... More About: Tips
How to Play Small Pocket Pairs
2008-04-01 04:07:00 by Niche Poker Small pocket pairs can be very profitable starting hands in Texas Holdem poker. However, many people misplay these hands or play them in the wrong circumstances – ending up losing money with them. This article looks at how to play small pocket pairs both before and after the flop in order to maximize your profits. We start by looking at the reason why small pocket pairs are so valuable – the opportunity to hit a hidden monster hand. Next the circumstances in which small pairs are playable before the flop are covered. Finally we look at how to play small pocket pairs when you miss the flop entirely. If we define small pocket pairs as 22 through to 66 it is easy to see that you will rarely hit an over-pair to the flop with them. The real value of these hands comes the one in eight times that you flop a set with your small pair. In these circumstances you can win many times your initial bet by taking the entire stack of an opponent, for example if someone holds pock... More About: Play , Pocket
Big Blind Play in Limit Hold’em
2008-04-01 03:57:00 By Jennifer Harman In Limit Hold ‘em, the big blind is one of the toughest position to play. You’re out of position, and that’s never a good thing, but usually, you’ll be getting excellent odds to continue with the hand. Against a single opponent who has raised, you’ll be getting better than 3 to 1 and, in most hands, you’re no more than a 2 to 1 dog. The problem is, you’ll often find yourself going into the flop with shaky cards and, at that point, you’re sure to face some tough decisions. Before I talk about some tricky situations that develop in the big blind, I want to note that you can make your life a little easier by folding some hands pre-flop. If you’re holding a medium Ace and you’re facing an early position raise from a player who you know plays only good cards up front, then fold. It may seem like you’re getting a nice price to continue, but in this spot, you’re only going to get into trouble. When ... More About: Play , Blind
Reading Poker Tells Early — When It Counts
2008-04-01 03:43:00 By Daniel Negreanu. There’s a common misconception about how, and more importantly, when to read other players’ tells. I get a kick out of the whole stare down thing after an opponent makes a bet on the river. Even though the bettor never flinches, the staring continues because one player (mistakenly) hopes that if he stares long enough, he’ll somehow figure out if the other player is bluffing or not. That’s just not how you read people, and that’s not the right time to start searching for tells. The subtle tells you pick up at the poker table will often occur well before you’re faced with your big decision. Why? Because tells happen early. To make a good read, you must pay attention to the action at the beginning of the hand, even though the table action doesn’t yet seem exciting. It’s just very unlikely that you’ll discover a physical tell on the river that will miraculously sway your decision. It’s much more effective to look for revealing tells pre-flop, pos... More About: Poker , Reading , Early , Tells
Laying Down Big Hands
2008-04-01 03:35:00 By Todd Brunson, Cardplayer.com As I mentioned in my last column, I placed 15th in the Doyle Brunson Classic, a WPT event held at Bellagio. Not only would it have been great to win my father’s tournament, but the first prize was $2.5 million! This is one of the biggest tournaments in the world outside the World Series of Poker. I had to settle for a little less than $100,000 as a consolation prize, unfortunately. This was a great tourney. Jack McClelland started us with 30,000 in chips without starting the limits at 1,000-2,000 right off the bat. We also had 90-minute levels, so there was a lot of play. This was no all-in donkeyfest, which many formerly great events have become. While I usually advocate an aggressive gambling style in tournaments, this type of tournament requires a more laid-back, selective style. Now, I’m not saying that you should play passively; I’m just saying that you have more time to pick your spots, so you should take it. I laid down more ... More About: Hands
Controlling the Pot
2008-02-08 23:09:00 by Paul Wasicka One of the most critical aspects to surviving ? and thriving ? in deep stack tournaments is learning how to control the size of the pots you play. In short, your goal should be to play big pots when you have big hands and small pots when you don?t. When you and your ...
Establishing a Tight Table Image
2007-11-15 04:40:00 by Allen Cunningham In poker, image matters. Throughout a tournament, your table image will help determine how much action you’ll get and, ultimately, how you can manipulate your opponents into making big calls or big laydowns at the wrong times. While establishing a loose, aggressive image early on can help build your initial chip stack, I believe it’s ... More About: Image , Table
The Biggest No-Limit Myth
2007-10-26 23:29:00 By Ed Miller Live $1-$2 and $2-$5 no-limit cash games can, for many players, be some of the most lucrative games in the cardroom. Several years ago, I was a committed limit player (even wrote a couple of books about it), but nowadays I?m sold on no-limit. It?s great because, at least at ... More About: Myth
Poker tells that women display
2007-09-04 22:04:00 By Joe Navarro with Marvin Karlins …..Pacifying Behaviors Involving the Neck: Neck touching and/or stroking is one of the most significant and frequent pacifying behaviors we use in responding to stress. I have observed over the decades that there are gender differences in the way men and women use the neck to pacify themselves. Men usually ... More About: Women , Poker , Display , Tells , Poke
Good players check game plan at the door
2007-09-04 21:46:00 By DANIEL NEGREANU I’m often asked poker strategy questions by amateurs who hope to get concrete answers in return. That’s rarely how poker works. There are simply too many variables to consider. The best approach in one situation might be the absolute worst in another. In tournament poker, it’s not a bad idea to have a game ... More About: Players , Check , Game , Good , Plan
The Pre-Flop Re-Steal ? No Limit Texas Holdem
2007-09-01 01:57:00 By Sasha I suppose there is a library of advice that can be offered in regards to every poker play; however, the stealing blinds is a necessity in tournament play if you hope to build your stack towards the leader, and maintain a workable stack as the blinds increase and players decrease. The ... More About: Texas , Steal , Texas Holdem , Holdem
Uconventional Aesthetics and Experimental Tournament Poker
2007-08-17 17:47:00 by nowapowa It is often said of posthumously successful artists who were underappreciated in their lifetime that they were somehow ahead of their time. Their contribution to their craft could not be appreciated at the time because of its deviation from commonly accepted notions. Moby Dick is considered by many authorities and ... More About: Poker , Experimental , Aesthetic , Peri , Rime
Gettin a leg up
2007-08-14 03:04:00 By Joe Navarro This is a question I ask attendees at the various poker seminars and training camps I conduct every year. The answer is important, because once you know the most honest part of an individual?s body, that?s where you?ll want to look to pick up the most accurate read on what ...
On Hand Reading
2007-08-09 04:26:00 By Fredrik Paulsson ?He Probably Has a Set? If you?ve ever said or thought ?my opponent probably has a set? you?re likely to have some holes in the way you read hands. I hope I can plug at least one of them today. Reading hands isn?t about putting your opponent on a single hand. It?s ... More About: Hand
Harrington?s Zone System
2007-08-02 18:20:00 by PokerListings.com The Zone System was first introduced by Dan Harrington in his highly acclaimed book Harrington on Hold’em, Volume II: The Endgame. The system divides a poker tournament into five different zones based on a player’s stack size as compared to the blinds and antes. Each zone will affect your play and correct strategy will ... More About: Stem , Zone System
A Strategy Primer for New Hold?em Poker Players
2007-08-02 18:12:00 By Lou Krieger As poker’s popularity continues to grow in the United States and overseas, experienced home game players as well as those who are new to the game itself, continue to sidle up to casino poker tables asking to be dealt in. Although new and exciting, ... More About: Poker , Players , Strategy , Hold , Prime
Hold?Em Strategy: Why You Should Never Open-Limp
2007-07-27 21:17:00 By Wil Wheaton During this year’s WSOP, I had the extreme pleasure and good fortune to sit in on a few strategy lectures that Barry Tanenbaum gave in the Poker Stars hospitality suite. I was so impressed, and learned so much from the brief sessions, I hired Barry for a two-hour private ... More About: Strategy , Misc , Open , Hold , Rate
Poker Terrorism ? SNG play on the bubble
2007-07-26 01:20:00 Posted by Beck @ Steal The Blinds I?ve been playing a fair number of low-stakes ($10+1 - $20+2) SNGs lately, and have been meeting with a great deal of success. I can safely attribute much of that success to many of the great posts on SNG play written by other bloggers out there. ... More About: Terrorism , Poker , Play , Bubble , Poke
Choosing Starting Hands (for beginners)
2007-07-24 20:36:00 If you know something about poker, you know that you should be folding a lot of your starting hands, right? And what are the best hands, the one you should be playing with? There are a lot of lists available, and some desktop backgrounds to the online poker player. In the book “Hold’em ... More About: Hands
4 Common Preflop Plays That Give Away Your Hand
2007-07-24 15:28:00 Hand reading is one of the toughest skills for many aspiring poker players. It?s easy to read a book and learn about pot odds, learn about playing aggressively, and so forth. But many players, especially many new players, are lost at sea when it comes to hand reading. They don?t even know ... More About: Common , Give , Plays , Hand
You Don?t HAVE To Bet!
2007-07-20 16:04:00 by Jim Woods You’re seated at a $1/$2 NL holdem table where the action has been moderate. You’ve limped in late position with suited 87 and no one raised. Five players see the J 3 4 flop. When the first three players check, you figure, “Hell, SOMEONE has to win this $10 pot,” ...
A guide to single table tournaments
2007-07-20 15:49:00 By Adam Small When I first started playing poker online in mid 2003, I played $1/$2 limit cash games and low buy-in STT?s (also known as ?minis? or ?sit-n-go?s?). My bankroll was tiny at the time (rarely more than $100 in any online account at any given time), and it was right for me to keep ... More About: Guide , Table , Single , Tournaments , Tournament
Adapting to the Table Situation - Wearing many different hats
2007-07-19 19:24:00 By Eric Lynch In all of my time playing poker, I’ve found that most successful players tend to fall into one of two categories. One category is the player who always attempts to be the table captain. This player attempts to constantly bend the will of everyone at the table to conform to ... More About: Table , Hats , Situation , Diff
Basic Poker Strategy
2007-07-19 19:16:00 By Kathy Watterson and Lou Krieger Kathy Watterson, who is my co-author on a soon-to-be released book that’s all about Internet poker, co-authored this column with me. Some of this material will appear in that book, although in a somewhat different form. This column is aimed at beginning players, particularly newcomers to “brick ... More About: Poker , Strategy , Basic , Rate , Poke
Learning Poker
2007-07-16 15:13:00 By Matt Matros Try to play correctly from the outset As a poker coach, I’ve had a wide variety of players ask me for advice. Some are middle-limit players who are trying to take their games to the next level. Some are regulars on the tournament circuit who just want to bounce ... More About: Poker , Learning , Poke , Earning
No Limit Holdem Tips For Beginners
2007-07-13 15:50:00 No Limit Hold em is a very easy game to learn, but difficult to master. Here is the actual quote, made famous and credited to Mike Sexton. “No Limit Texas Holdem takes a minute to learn, and a lifetime to master.” This quote is true, but with a few no limit holdem tips to use on your game, ... More About: Tips
No Limit Holdem Sit-n-Go Strategy
2007-07-13 15:45:00 Steve Badger is fond of saying that if you’re a losing player, you need an infinite bankroll. If you follow the no limit Texas holdem SnG strategy in this article, it’s unlikely you’ll be a losing player. But you still need enough of a bankroll to avoid what they call risk of ruin, which is ... More About: Strategy , Hold , Rate , Holdem
The Cockroach Effect
More articles from this author:2007-07-12 04:13:00 By SamENole When Adam asked me if I’d be willing to write a monthly article for pocketfives, I originally had some concerns. Having graduated from college more than a year ago, would my writing skills be up to the task? As a player who plays on instinct and habit, would I really be ... More About: Effect , Roach 1, 2 |
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