If you watch for any length of time at a No Limit Hold’em game populated exclusively by beginners, a big leak that you will see in their strategies is in the size of their bets. I’ve lost count of the number of times the players make a minium bet or a really small bet as [...]
Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Back to Basics #7: Size matters
Monday, July 13th, 2009Key Concepts #10: Playing Pocket Aces
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009There 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 [...]
Key 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 [...]
How to move through a cold streak
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009I remember with precision the biggest downswing I’ve suffered to date. I was just nineteen years of age and President of the Poker Society at Oxford University. I was playing the student poker circuit here in the UK as well as a few festival events at our big casinos in addition to online and I simply [...]
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 #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 #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 [...]