Independent Chip Modeling (ICM) determines your equity share of the prize pool in a tournament based on the stack sizes of the remaining opponents and the probability of your finish. With these...

As a poker player you will have experienced times when you made the correct decision only to have the results make you want to punch the wall. Poker is a game with...

Never bluffing in a poker game is resigning yourself to being a lifetime loser. You just can’t win without stealing a few pots every now and then; it’s that simple. But if...

A skill that is commonly overlooked by novice tournament poker players is that of chip stack management. Managing your chip stack refers to an awareness of the number of chips you have...

In poker there are good bets and bad bets – the game is simply a way of determining who can tell the difference. This is where the concept of pot odds comes...

Have you ever put out a bet hoping that your opponent will fold? The percent of time that an opponent will fold to your bet is known as your “fold equity”. The...

Slow-playing disguises the true strength of your hand to bait a trap for your opponent. Perhaps you think that if you call quietly instead of raise aggressively, he’ll come out betting on...

Downswings are inevitable in poker, regardless of how well you might play the game. Any endeavour that possesses an element of luck will have variance. Here is the good news and the...

Professional poker players often describe their vocation as “a hard way to make an easy living”. One of the most difficult aspects of the game that a professional poker player must deal...

Before you get scared that this poker lesson is all about complex math, it’s not. Yes we’ll cover some of the calculations used to determine expected value in some common situations, but...