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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Floating or Sinking?
Hold'em strategies continue to evolve and catch the fancy of some players and are dismissed by others. One such strategy is “Floating” which means calling with a weak hand in position with...
Poker Decisions and Guessing
When it comes to poker, I’ve often written that knowledge is power and guessers are losers - and while I do adhere to those two dictums, let’s face it … sometimes you...
Winning Tournaments (Volume & Variance)
Do you get frustrated playing poker tournaments? You play all the time and it seems like you never cash. And even when you do, you cash the minimum. Every once in a...
Trust Your Reads and Poker Instincts
“Trust your instincts, class.” Those were a teacher’s words back when I was a teenager and prepping for one of the myriad standardized tests administered to see how we were progressing with...
Violating Conventional Poker Wisdom – Part II
In my last article I addressed the first three of the six pieces of conventional poker wisdom that I have found exception to. In this article I’ll deal with the remaining three....
Before You Play Poker… Have a Plan
Have you ever heard the expression, most people do not plan to fail, however, many people fail to plan? I think it's a pretty neat adage which could lead us to conclude...
