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Putting Your Opponent on a Hand

Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 Professional

Ask any poker player what was one of the earliest skills they learned that really improved their game and many will say: Putting a Player on a Hand. The skill is easy to learn and difficult to master. All you do is guess what each player in a hand are holding. You should do it [...]

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Recency Factor in Poker

Date: Sun, Sep 21, 2008 Professional

The Recency Factor refers to a natural human tendency to attach more significance to recent events than to long term observations. In poker the application involves the reads you put on your opponents. Let’s say their is a tight, conservative player at your table, this player has been in a tight shell all day. Then [...]

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Assessing Your Opponents Skill Level

Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 Professional

Not everyone plays the same and not everyone is capable of playing at the same level you are. Some players will just not be as good of a poker player as you and some will be better players than you. Figuring out what the skill level of your opponents is has a wide range of [...]

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Poker Statistics #4: The Coin Flip

Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 Professional

One of the most common all in situations you will see in tournament poker is the two player heads up “coin flip”. One player holds a pocket pair and the other player has two overcards. For instance, player A holds the ever strong AK and player B has pocket sixes. When those hole cards get [...]

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Pace

Date: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 Professional

Tables have a pace, sometimes fast other times slow. As a player at the table you have influence on this pace and can use it effectively to gain an edge on some opponents. You, of course, effect the pace by how much time you take when it is your turn to act. Beginning players [...]

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No Action

Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 Professional

Action means players are gambling or at least playing with some aggression and contesting the pots. No Action is just the opposite. Players are not putting chips in the pot and when they do you know they have big hands. The problem with a No Action table is not only is this boring poker [...]

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Pushing the Action

Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 Professional

There are times when a table is playing very slow or weak. No chips are really moving around the table. In a tournament this can be fatal, while your table is playing tight with little action, other tables are seeing big bets and bustouts, which means some players are building big stacks. You can’t win [...]

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Playing the Board

Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 Professional

In Texas Hold’em the object is to make the best five card poker hand using any of the 5 community cards and any of your 2 hole cards. You can use both of your hole cards and three of the community cards or you can use one card from your hand and four community cards [...]

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Floating

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 Professional

Floating refers to a play where you stay in a hand, usually calling a post-flop bet with nothing. You have no hand and no draw but your intention is to stay in and steal the hand away with an aggressive bet on the turn or river or both. Floating requires, of course, that you have [...]

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Playing Backwards

Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 Professional

Playing Backwards sounds really cool but it is a trap you do not want to fall into with your poker game. Basically, playing backwards means you are doing the opposite of what is expected. In poker that most commonly means you are betting when you should be checking and checking or calling when you should [...]

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Blind Off (Ante Off)

Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 Professional

You are getting short stacked in a tournament, the blinds are getting bigger and there are antes to pay every hand. You know you have to make a play soon and you can’t wait for Aces or Kings, there just isn’t enough time. What you don’t want to do is fold and have the blinds [...]

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A “Blind” Tip

Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008 Professional

What do your opponents think when you are in the blinds? Well what do you think the blinds have, when you are in other positions? The answer is that most players who voluntarily enter a pot think that the blinds have nothing. So when you call a raise from the blinds and then check the flop [...]

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Playing from the Blinds #2

Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 Professional

If you are in the big blind in an unraised pot, you get a free look at the flop. In the small blind you can get the free look for 1/2 a bet. So the key to blind play is the raised pot. You should have a clear idea of what hands you will and [...]

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Playing from the Blinds #1

Date: Sun, Aug 17, 2008 Professional

“Most players are net losers from the blinds.” If you do not immediately know why that statement is true, then take a moment. When you are in the blinds, you place a forced bet before you see your cards. Since even aggressive players fold more than they call or raise; it makes sense that you are playing [...]

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