While playing your typical local game, or card room game, you need to be sure of your opponents moves, as well as your own.  Most avid players will play plenty of home games against the same opponents, and be put into the same situations.  Within these groups, there is always one strong player that usually [...]

Pocket Aces, the weapons of mass destruction, everyone’s favorite hand, but why do people keep losing with them?  The biggest problems with amateurs playing pocket aces is they either A) play them to slow or B) play them to fast where they cannot get any equity out of the hand. Depending on the situation of [...]

The funnest part of the game that should be incorporated into your game the least.  Bluffing.  Everyone loves to bluff. The massive pots you take off your friends, family, and other players don’t compare to just winning with aces. Yet, bluffs need to perfectly timed, correctly read, and properly bet.  So often do you see [...]

In heads-up play one normally wants to play a very aggressive style as this gives the greatest chance of being able to force an opponent to bend to your will, continually surrendering blinds and small pots to you in fear of a big confrontation. However, while playing aggressive is normally the way to go, what [...]

The final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event is fast approaching, with the nine remaining players set to do battle on November 9th until a victor is decided. To reach this point those nine players had to navigate a treacherous and gigantic player field that began with 6,844 players all clamoring [...]

We’ve all been in this situation a million times, our pocket tens turn into a set when the flop comes down and we bet it aggressively, but there is the one guy who calls and calls until finally on the river he makes his gutshot straight draw and takes us for a lot of chips. [...]

Every poker player who competes in the online poker rooms has used them, the little boxes that allow you to automatically dictate what action you will take before play comes around to you. This way you can check the box or click the button that will fold your hand to any bet as you just [...]

The size of one’s chip stack and the size of their opponents’ chip stacks is crucially important in the game of poker, not just in determining who’s winning or who can knock out who, but also in how the size of the stacks affect the play at the table. If a player has a larger [...]

When playing in tournament poker there will frequently be a situation when a short stack goes all-in and sees two or more callers. A standard practice here is for the players who called the all-in to check the hand down in order to increase their chances of eliminating the all-in player. However, checking the hand [...]

“He’s got a good poker face.” This phrase is heard a lot, and usually refers to a person who is able to make their face look like a stone sculpture, unmoving and emotionless. The person doesn’t give away any information, making it hard to get a read on him. One poker player who is like [...]