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Q&A #119: How Do I Apply SPR To My Game?

Date: Sat, Nov 15, 2008

In the first no-limit book that I co-wrote with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn (as opposed to the upcoming book), Professional No-Limit Hold’em: Volume 1 (PNL1), we devoted a large chunk of the text to the concept of using Stack-to-Pot Ratios (SPR) to plan your hands and to make commitment decisions. The SPR for a hand [...]

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85,000 Words

Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008

I mentioned last month that the new book with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn was coming along well. Since that post I took a weeklong trip to New Orleans to visit Sunny, and we used that time to really crank hard on the manuscript. On that trip we took stock of our progress, and we [...]

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Q&A #118: Suited Connectors Vs. Pocket Aces And The Confusion About Limping

Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008

I wanted to clear up two major no-limit hold’em misunderstandings. They are somewhat related. The first one is described in a comment by Ben Attenborough on recent post Playing No-Limit With A Plan. Hey Ed, I would just like to say I think this is a very well written article which goes a long way to explaining [...]

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Full Tilt Poker Will Now Pay For Your Stoxpoker And Cardrunners Memberships

Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008

Ok, this new deal is pretty sick. I’m a coach for Stoxpoker, a poker video training site. Video training is one of the absolute best ways to improve your poker play. Now you can get your Stoxpoker membership, as well as a membership at partner site Cardrunners, paid for by Full Tilt Poker just by accumulating [...]

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Three Simple Things An Average Small Stakes Live Game Regular Can Try To Make More Money

Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008

The great thing about poker is that nearly all of us have room to improve our games. Many players who beat small stakes live games at a decent clip could win more money if they tried these three simple things more often. Taking Control Of The Game Many small stakes live games are relatively passive. The players [...]

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Playing No-Limit With A Plan

Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008

“How should I play suited connectors preflop? Should I call raises with them?” People ask me questions like these all the time. Unfortunately, I can’t answer them without context. To get a good answer out of me, I’d have to ask a few questions of my own: How is the game playing? What are the [...]

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Q&A #117: Should They Call Him McSpew?

Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Should they call him McSpew? You be the judge. Here is jenson from the message board to tell his story: At least they called me that on another forum when I posted this. I’m wondering if you guys have the same sentiment. I accept it if you do. I was thinking of Ed’s recent blog [...]

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Q&A #116: Taking An All-In Risk During The Late Stages Of A Tournament

Date: Sun, Oct 19, 2008

In tournament play, you make decision after decision that could result in risking all your chips. You’ll make at least one decision for all your chips in virtually every tournament you play. And in most tournaments you’ll make multiple all-in decisions. Whenever you choose to go for it, and you lose, it’s easy to second-guess your [...]

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Suited Connectors In No-Limit Hold’em Revisited

Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008

A few months back I wrote an article about playing suited connectors titled “How Suited Connectors Are Costing You Money.” The basic premise of the article was that a lot of people play suited connectors in the wrong situations and with the wrong expectations. If you’re limping in and calling raises preflop, you’re picking the [...]

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A Quick Personal Update

Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2008

I don’t give you guys too many updates on my life and projects, so I figured it was time. The last few months have been extremely hectic in Ed Miller land. In July, Elaine and I dragged ourselves back across the country and bought a nice little foreclosure home in Las Vegas. The foreclosure scene [...]

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Q&A #115: How Time Charges Affect Strategy

Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008

Today we have a quick Q&A about playing in a game with a time charge. A time charge is a way for the house to profit from the game. In lieu of a rake on each pot, in a time game the house simply collects a fixed fee from each player at the beginning of [...]

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Value Betting The River

Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2008

The river really separates the pros from the amateurs. I don’t mean that pros tremble in fear of the river card while amateurs gleefully plan their latest bad beat. Quite the opposite, the river is probably the betting round where pro players generate the greatest edge over their amateur adversaries. Amateur players tend not to bet [...]

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How To Rig An Online Game And Not Get Caught

Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008

My recent post Manipulating The Deck In Online Poker seemed to “stir up the pot” a bit as Bill Rini put it. I thought a lot of the feedback was interesting, and I responded to some of it in the comments section of the original post. But I thought Bill’s feedback needed a new post to [...]

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Q&A #114: Two Big Pocket Pair Hands From Live No-Limit Games

Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008

Recently on the message board I fielded two questions about big pocket pair hands played in live no-limit games. I want to share these two hands with all my readers. The first question comes from Slam. You can read the entire discussion on the message board. Slam asks: I’m holding my own with all of my $100 [...]

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