Best Poker Tips

In the early stages of a tournament you should be keeping it tight. You know that by now.
In this tip I would like to go a little deeper into why it is so important to start loosening up after players get eliminated. There are several reasons, some mathmatic and other more player orientated:
- First of all [...]

‘On the bubble’ is a tricky spot to be in.
Basically it means that, in any tournament, if you get eliminated ‘on the bubble’, you are the last person to be eliminated without making any money. Everybody from then on gets some money.
So what does that do to your playing style? Since you don’t want to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]