Playing the Turn
Once the flop is delivered you know 71 percent of your final hand. This lesson will focus on the turn, which produces 86 percent of your hand. Many poker pundits express the...
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The Float Play
As poker tactics have become more aggressive, the need to adapt your play in order to stay ahead of the curve has increased. While continuation betting is not a new concept, it...
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Flopping a Monster
The thrill of flopping a monster is the nirvana of hold’em. This wonderful event makes mucking all that trash for hours on end worthwhile. Poker hand distribution is somewhat like a bell...
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Typical Beginner Mistakes
Hopefully you’ve already absorbed a wealth of knowledge from our poker lessons. There’s still much to learn – in fact you’ll never stop learning about poker. Before moving onto the next stage...
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Proper Bet Sizing
Understanding how to correctly use bet sizes to influence and manipulate the action is what separates skilled poker players from absolute beginners. Without a doubt, improper bet sizing is a very common...
The Reasons for Betting in Poker
Understanding how to bet is one of the fundamental skills in poker. If your aim is to become a skilled poker player, you have to understand why you are betting in the...
Limit Hold’em vs. No-Limit Hold’em
Many poker players now start out by playing no-limit hold'em and this lesson is intended for those looking to make the transition to fixed-limit hold'em. We'll focus on differences between the two...
Limit Hold’em – Pre-Flop Play
Playing before the flop is your first opportunity to voluntarily put money in the pot. Don’t just toss in the first single bet to be a part of the action. Make good...
Limit Hold’em – The Flop
Before the flop the only information available to you is position, the value of your hand and any knowledge you might have acquired regarding the playing tendencies of your opponents. The flop...
Limit Hold’em – The Turn
In this lesson we will direct our focus to strategies for the turn. If you have reached a turn decision then you haven't folded pre-flop or on the flop and now the...
Limit Hold’em – The River
The river is possibly the easiest street to play in limit hold’em. There are no more cards to come so there will be no further improvement to anyone’s hand. There are basically...
Poker and The Big Mo
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream — Malcolm Muggeridge. Everybody loves a winner. Any time we see someone, or something, emerge victorious in a difficult situation, that always...
The Risks of Winning at Poker
So you’re doing great. You’re at the $2/5 no limit table and you are ruling. You sat down with $300, doubled up in the first ten minutes when your A-K improved to...
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Picture a man, sitting on a hillside. He has a gun and he's firing random shots at the side of a barn some yards away. Before long, the wall of the barn...
