There is no better feeling in the poker world than looking down at one’s cards and seeing two fat and juicy Aces staring right back at you. You are perfectly safe in the knowledge that you have the best hand right now; a good way ahead of all of your opponents. However, I still have [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Key Concepts’
Key Concepts #10: Playing Pocket Aces
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Key Concepts #9:Blind Play
Friday, June 26th, 2009In Texas Hold’em tournaments, it is a mathematical certainty that the blinds will be your least profitable positions at the table. If you play a hand from the small blind, you are guaranteed to be playing the entire hand at a positional disadvantages and all the negative implications that come as a natural result of [...]
Key Concepts #8- The Blocking Bet
Thursday, June 25th, 2009A blocking bet is a fairly advanced NL Hold’em play that is used as a vehicle to get to see the next card or get to showdown cheaply. It is a bet made when out of position in order to prevent your opponent from making a larger bet which we will not have odds to [...]
Key Concepts #7: The Squeeze Play
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009You may have been tuning in to your favourite poker show on TV and hear one of the commentators say “he’s running the squeeze play here!” However, you may not know exactly what the squeeze play is or how it is best employed. This article should shed some light on the matter.
First things first, the [...]
Key Concepts #5: When top pair is no good.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Most of the time in Texas Hold’em if we make a decent top pair hand, we fully expect our hand to be good if the board doesn’t bring anything higher. As an example say we have AhQs in the cut-off and make a standard raise of four times the big blind and the flop comes [...]
Key Concepts #4: Spots for the Check-Raise
Monday, June 22nd, 2009It should be widely known that the check-raise is one of the strongest moves that one can pull on one’s opponent and on the whole when employed in the right circumstances, it is a highly effective tactic. While some old-timers may have once viewed it as a slightly dishonest move, it is clearly a move [...]
Key Concepts #3: The Stop ‘n’ Go
Friday, June 19th, 2009The Stop and Go play is an effective tournament hold’em tactic that is used by short stacked players over the pre-flop and flop betting rounds.
The stop and go is employed when in a tournament you are short stacked and an opponent in earlier position has made a raise. Normally, if you have a hand [...]
Key Concepts #2: Continuation Betting
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009As I began our strategy series yesterday by talking about a tactic that existed to exploit continuation betting, I’ve decide that it’s only right that I talk about continuation betting in some detail today.
Continuation betting is a quite simple tactic that players of almost any ability can put into practice today to help them get [...]
Key Concepts #1: The Float Play
Monday, June 15th, 2009Key Concepts will be an ongoing series on the blog that looks at a different key strategy each article and explores for players who are looking to improve their game, the crucial tactics that they will need to employ. It is assumed that readers will have a reasonable working knowledge of the game including basic [...]