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People who have some poker education know what the EV is, or at least they think they do. It’s amazing how many of them get the concept wrong though. Poker is indeed an endless battle for EV+, but in order that you should understand the subtle aspects of this battle, you first need to make [...]

Also known as the ‘second bullet’ for most poker players, continuation bets are and should indeed be an integral part of a successful poker player’s arsenal.
Before we go into strategic implications though, let’s see what a continuation bet really is. You’re in the BB with a pair of jacks, and you decide to hold your [...]

Sit & Go tournaments are a great way to make money. Not only that, they are also a great way to becoming a better poker player. One of the benefits of playing online is that you play poker, poker and more poker. There’s no talk involved -well, almost none-, no dealer shuffling cards and no [...]

Quite recently I was playing a cheap Sit & Go tournament online.
It was a 6 handed No Limit Texas Holdem ‘Turbo’ game. ‘Turbo’ means that the blinds go up twice as fast; as you can read in poker glossary this means every minute the blinds go up. I like it that way because it takes [...]

Playing online is a whole different discipline than playing ‘live’ poker.
Since you won’t get any reads from faces, talk or body language, you’ll have to focus solely on betting behaviour. That’s all you’ve got. You’re going to have to find patters in players betting that give away whether they want to play the hand or [...]

Sometimes you get caught up in a hand and you think to yourself “How the hell did I get myself into this?!”
I had just such a situation when I was playing a shorthanded no limit game the other day. We were playing 4 handed €1/2 no limit with some buddies and I found an A2 [...]

A fish can be extremely lucrative to play against. And it is easy too! But for some reason some people find it rather difficult to play a fish. I get asked a lot how to approach this money spender when faced at a table. Here are three basic rules to how it’s done:
1. Play medium tight, [...]

I believe it was Doyle Brunson who said that ’poker isn’t a card game played with people, but a people game played with cards’.
And he’s right too. It’s all about knowing your opponent and that often starts away from the poker table. You see, the way people behave in their everyday lives reflects on their poker game. [...]

You know what I noticed the most while writing all of these tips?
That it’s so hard to find a situation that perfectly illustrates the point I’m trying to make.
For instance, if I’m trying to tell you to be careful with your all in, every example I come up with to illustrate my point, lacks some [...]

Going all in is an extremely powerful tool of No Limit Hold’em.
You could actually say that the game is called ‘No Limit’ because you have got the possibility to go all in.
The only problem of going all in, is that some players use it unwisely.
When you want to go all in, first you have to consider [...]