Keeping your computer and your personal information safe from attack is vitally important when using the internet, as threats can come in from any direction. New threats are designed and implemented everyday, forcing the people who help protect you from attack to quickly foil the new threats that present themselves. Viruses: Computer viruses are the [...]

Poker is a game where if you know more than your opponents you will have a significant advantage over the competition. While luck is a big factor in poker, it is the fight for information that is most important, as it allows people to play poker professionally, because they do have an edge. Most of [...]

Poker is a game where players who know more than their opponents have an advantage, and the battle of information has a direct relation to how the ensuing battles of chips and cards turn out. The more information you have, and the sooner you get it, the better you will do. Knowing the tendencies of [...]

One factor of poker that many amateur poker players tend to under appreciate is the ability to manage the size of the pot and keep their bets suitable to the pot. Players understand intuitively that you don’t bet a thousand chips into a hundred chip pot, but fail to apply the basic principle here consistently [...]

It’s human nature to either want to keep playing poker when you’re losing or quit when you’re ahead. Nobody wants to finish the day as a loser. But to be a successful poker player, you have to learn to let go of these emotions and think about the long run. You can’t judge your success [...]

The best way to learn something is by experiencing it first hand. But since you never want to experience what it’s like to go broke, i’ll just show you an example of the negative effects of not using money management in poker. On June 24th, thenut21 placed 2nd in the PokerStars Sunday Million event for [...]

I’m not opposed to playing heads up poker. It’s actually my best game. But if you’re playing heads up cash games, either online or in a casino, chances are the rake will eat you alive! I came to this conclusion today, when I set down at a $200 heads up HA game (holdem / PLO [...]

Here’s a common situation: You’ve made it to the river but you missed your draw. You’re sure that your opponent has a weak hand and you know that the only way to win is by betting. So in an attempt to scare away your opponent you over bet the pot. But to your surprise, he [...]

Usually when people under bet the river it’s because they want to see you call. You can hear the player saying, “Please call! It will only cost you a tiny bit!”, with their small river bets. Here’s an idea, why not bluff at the pot by throwing in a value bet on the river? You’ll [...]

Google has a book search that reveals a surprisingly large amount of content for each book. The poker books I searched for all had multiple chapters intact and ready to view in an easy to read format. Some books had the entire book online. Not every poker book is available, but they have a nice [...]