Betting the Flop Poker Strategy
The flop is the pivotal stage in any Texas Hold’em hand. By now, about 71% of your final hand strength is revealed, making it the foundation of solid post-flop poker strategy. Most...
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Reading Betting Patterns
Betting patterns describe how players size and time their bets across hands. Understanding these patterns helps you estimate hand strength, identify bluffs, and plan effective counterplays or exploitative moves. Later on in...
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How to Beat Beginners at Poker
“I don’t need advice on beating poker beginners—they’re clueless at the table!” In reality, inexperience can work in their favor, with luck swinging an entire session. Just as in every hand, your...
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Studying Your Opponents
One of the oldest adages in poker - it’s one you’ve heard repeated time and time again - is that if you can’t spot the fish during your first ten minutes at...
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Hand Reading – Putting Players on a Hand
For those who aren’t very good at it, the ability to put a poker player on a hand is a tough concept to grasp, and when watching it done correctly, it appears...
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...
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...
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...
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...