Shvivee has a habit of staring at you and pawing your chair lightly when he sees you eating. That’s because he eats almost anything and everything. A friend of mine recommended that I stop giving him human food ( (a) to stop his begging, and (b) to improve his breath) – I plead guilty to doing ...
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While sitting next to Joe Reitman as Annie Duke and Andy Bloch battled in the first round of the NBC Heads-Up Championship, I thought I saw Joe’s ex-wife, Shannon Elizabeth, on the far side of the room and pointed her out. It wasn’t inconceivable that Shannon Elizabeth would be here. Shannon, who made the semifinals of ...
[The issue of the Blog spacing have been fixed, and you'll be pleased to know I have a healthy backlog of high-quality posts. Therefore, I continue with my coverage of the NBC Heads-Up Championship.] There is an old expression that goes, “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” I never knew what this meant but ...
Leron Washington, who qualified for this tournament on ClubWPT.com, wins the WPT Celebrity Invitational, earning $100,000, a watch, a WPT bracelet, and a Commerce trophy. As part of that prize, he has entry into the $25,000 WPT World Championship at Bellagio in April. Congratulations to Leron Washington! 1st: Leron Washington – $100,000 2nd: Sean Urban ...
Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace to five low lowball poker. The object of Razz is to make the lowest five card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace usually plays ...
Downloading the poker software is easy for experienced but many have questions. In a nutshell you click on the download software link , a window will popup and indicate whether to download or not click ok or yes. The poker software will download to your computer in a folder maybe documents or downloads . Do ...
You can play in small stakes poker tourneys at full tilt poker.Check out the tournaments and you will see sit and go and click amount. It’s a great way to learn at your own pace as you gain experience . There’s more about it in the pages but you can download full tilt poker software ...
Back in the early nineties brothers Ross and Barny Boatman played in a home game in Ross’s flat which was underneath Barny’s flat in Archway, North London. When that game broke up they started frequenting Joe Beevers’ game in nearby Hendon, befriending Joe, and the game’s other regular player, Ram Vaswani. ….There’s more in depth ...
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Everybody seems to be aware of game selection and the importance of it these days but how many players practice good seat selection? A bad seat in an otherwise good game can often offset the advantage of the good game to begin with. In fact it can often be the case that a good seat ...
Here is how to play basic strategy when there are more than two cards involved written out in plain English. How to Play Hard Hands: -A hard hand is two starting cards that do not contain an ace. If you have eight or less, always hit. If you have Nine: Double if the dealer has ...
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Often in ring games you will encounter players who limp more than what they should. This process then creates limped pots and it is these types of situations that you should be looking to exploit. Winning one or two limped pots every hour or so can significantly add to your earn ...
As a novice poker player, the rake is something that is rarely considered. When I say rarely considered then what I actually mean of course is in what effect it has on your bottom line and also your ability to be able to make the game pay. As a rule the rake can ...
I often see many online poker players even very good players fail to raise on the button in no-limit texas hold’em ring games or in heads up situations with hands that they intend to play. ...
There is a huge rush these days with nearly all poker players to play nothing but hold’em. One might say that this is where the action is and they would be right. But yet for many players and especially those who only play single tables then playing hold’em may not be the optimal choice. ...
There is a common concept in online poker about trying to find out where you are in a hand. Unfortunately novice players often fail to get the hang of this concept and end up getting pot committed. Let us look at an example to highlight what I mean. ...
Years ago the great Doyle Brunson made famous the art of playing small pot poker. In his legendary book that was Supersystem, he constantly referred to the process of playing poker in a very aggressive way. Although in that book, Doyle does in fact play a deep stack style of play. In his later ...
Over the past few months, the number of players who have either switched to playing Pot Limit Omaha or are trying the game out has increased significantly. In fact many professionals are switching to PLO as much of the value is drying up in hold ‘em. ...
These days, poker tournaments are getting larger and larger. There are satellites and super satellites and other events that allow you to qualify without even spending any money. What this means of course is that it is very common now for poker tournaments to have very large fields and events with 1000 players or more ...
Blockers are cards you hold that would be outs for your opponents. For an extreme example, say you were playing JT98, all spades, and the flop came 876 with two spades. If you’re all-in against someone with the nut flush draw (Asxs), you hold four of their outs. In fact, you have five because ...
Preflop: AA96. Assume that all relevant players have $400 in their stack. Any hand with AA is strong enough to play preflop, but this is a fairly weak one. With a hand like this you don’t want to put in too much action unless you can get the majority of your (or your opponent’s) stack all-in ...
Advanced Pot Limit Omaha: Preflop All-in Equity In my article on short-stack Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) strategy, I emphasized the importance of preflop all-in equity. ...
The differences in Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) strategy between playing short-stacked and deep-stacked are so great that it’s almost like they’re two completely different games. When you’re deep-stacked it’s all about setting up major pots with huge hands, like the nuts with redraws or monster wrap straight draws. You have to think ahead a ...
In my Beginner’s Guide to Pot Limit Omaha I went over a few of the basic preflop principles, but now I want to give you a more practical guide to choosing which hands to play. The huge majority of Omaha players play far too loose before the flop. ...
Preflop: You’re playing 10/20 Limit Hold’em. You’re on the button and you have KTo. Everyone folds to you. Even though KTo isn’t a premium hand, it’s more than enough to raise with when you’re in position . ...
Two pair is one of the toughest hands to play in pot-limit Omaha. It’s right on the borderline of being crappy enough to fold and good enough to risk a bet with. How you should play two pair on the flop depends on a bunch of factors: previous action, the number of players in the ...
Preflop: AQ. You’re at a loose $1/$2 NL Hold’em table. You have $250 in your stack. An early position player with $50 left makes it $6 to go. He’s a fairly aggressive player before the flop who could have a fairly wide range of hands. ...
In tournaments, the amount you win in chips does not correspond to the amount of money that you win. If you were playing a cash game and won all the chips on the online poker table, you would take all that cash home, you wouldn’t have to give away 75% or so of it ...
What makes Omaha such a great action game is the balance between draws and made hands. In Hold’em or Stud, a great draw is usually just 8 or 9 outs, which means the made hand is almost always at a big advantage. Not so in Omaha, where it’s easy to have multiple draws because of ...
Omaha Hi-Lo: Drawing to Half the Pot In my Introduction to Split Pot Games and Omaha Hi-Lo Starting Hand Guide, I really try to emphasize the importance of choosing hands that have the potential to win the entire pot, not just half. In split pot games, pots are often quite large, because having a ...
Hand History Analysis — 2/4 Omaha Hi-Lo This hand is typical of some of the decisions that are common at lower stakes Omaha Hi-Lo games. Pots are often multi-way, and get lots of action. This is taken from a 10 handed, $2/$4 Omaha Hi-Lo game. Preflop: A25K. You are in early position playing ...
Heads Up Play at the End of a Tournament If you’ve been lucky or skilled enough to be one of the last two players in a tournament, you have to make some very major poker strategy adjustments. Playing heads up is almost an entirely different game. ...
Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better is not really much of a bluffing game. There are two major reasons: first, with four cards in a hand, players can easily find an excuse to call before the flop, and second, it’s not hard to make a decent hand when you can pick and choose ...
Everything you read about Omaha Hi-Lo should be rooted in two basic points. The first is the importance of having a two-way hand, having a possibility of sweeping the entire pot. The second point is the importance of having the nuts or a draw to the nuts. ...
The game is 6-handed $200 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha, with blinds of $1 and $2. Your stack is $300. Preflop: You have KK75 in early position. Some aggressive players will enter the pot in early position for a raise with this hand, but unless the game was tight and I thought I ...
Many non-poker players tend to confuse with poker with blackjack. Many times I’ve had people ask me if you have to be really good at counting cards to play poker. As primarily a Hold’em (and Omaha) player, it’s a funny question. However, in any type of stud game, counting cards is actually very important. In ...
Are there ever situations where a good bet should not be made? First we’ll define a good bet: any wager with positive expected value (EV). Expected value is the average return on a bet. Let’s take a bet on the flip of a coin as an example. You and I bet $1, I call heads ...
In the articles in this hand analysis section of the poker school, I walk you through my thought processes as I play a hand. Although you may disagree with individual decisions (and be right!), my hope is that you’ll learn something new from the way I think about a hand, especially how I try to ...
7 Card Stud, sometimes referred to as just Stud, was quite likely the most well known and widely played variety of poker in the world until it was overtaken by Texas Hold’em. Stud is different from Texas Hold’em and Omaha in a several ways. Primarily, Stud is not a community card game. Each player is ...
Every once in a while you will be able to double up once or even twice within the first few levels of a poker tournament. It’s an enviable position, but I’ve seen many players take the wrong approach and give up their early lead. ...
Tournaments are generally simpler to play well than cash games. It is very rare to go through an entire tournament without being “short stacked” on at least one occasion. ...
7 Card Stud Hi-Lo is one of the most entertaining poker games around. A classic in most home games, it figures to become more popular online as well. As with all split-pot games, the prospect of two winners leads to a lot of action and a lot of bad and crazy play. ...
Preflop: You’re playing $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha. The game is 6-handed and your stack is $200. You’re in early position, with AJJ10. A strong hand. You can either call or raise. I don’t like to raise preflop in early position too much, because positional advantage is extremely important in Pot Limit Omaha. Let’s say ...
Putting an opponent on a hand is one of the most important skills in any poker game. However, many players, especially beginners, have the wrong idea about what “putting a player on a hand” means. These players think it means picking a single hand that you think your opponent has and playing ...
Winning a tournament with hundreds or thousands of other participants can seem like a daunting task. Here are some quick tips on making your next multi-table tournament a success. Early on: If you don’t go crazy early on, you should be able to pick up a pot here or there to survive. 1. ...
The best tournament players are not always the best ring-game players, and vice-versa - but why would that be the case? Why would one player be a superb ring-game player, but totally suck at tourneys? The likely reason is that they play both games the same way. ...