The Check Raise
When you get down to basics, the check raise is simple. You have a good hand with opponents who act after you do - a hand you strongly suspect is better than...
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Making Smart Laydowns
“What you don’t spend, you don’t have to earn,” is an adage as true at the poker table as it is outside of it. Or, to quote the oft-quoted Amarillo Slim Preston,...
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How to Play Medium Pairs
Hand values in poker fall into three basic categories, two of which are quite simple to play well. There are the top premium hands, the absolute trash and then everything else in...
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Playing Marginal Poker Hands
Back in the day when new poker players were trying to grasp the intricacies of the game, ‘marginal hands’ was a bad phrase. They were to be avoided at all costs. The...
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How to Play Razz
Razz is a simple game and the objective is to make the best possible low hand. The format of this game is the same as seven-card stud high but in razz only...
How to Play Omaha
Omaha is a board game similar to hold’em in so far as there is a flop, a turn card, and a river card. Learning how to play Omaha is simple if you're...
How to Play Five Card Stud
There was a time when five-card stud reigned supreme and was considered the game, but over the years it has fallen out of favour along with five-card draw for more intricate and...
How to Play Seven Card Stud
Seven card stud (also referred to as 7 card stud) is similar to Texas hold’em in so far as you use your best five cards out of a total of seven to...
Cash Games: Full Ring vs. 6-Max
The key difference between full ring and shorthanded cash games involves the number of poker players. Full ring is essentially a standard poker game where nine or ten players are seated. While some poker...
Flop Texture
Far too many players ignore flop texture when playing Texas hold’em. Why so many players ignore texture continues to amaze me. After all, a flop’s texture is free information when you’re trying...
Poker Players and Table Image
To be a top level poker player, of any game, you must understand the concept of table image – yours and your opponent’s. Then you must learn how to exploit it. Let’s...
Playing Tight Poker Players
In this lesson we're going to focus our attention on how to play against tight poker players. Being tight or loose doesn’t necessarily refer to how somebody plays their hand, but merely...
Playing Aggressive Poker Players
As the game of poker evolves and educational resources (such as Pokerology) are at everyone’s fingertips, more and more players are learning to adopt an aggressive style at the poker tables. Indeed,...
Playing the River
One could say the turn represents the home stretch and the river the finish line. When you’ve arrived at the finish line your hand is fully realized – there are no more...
