Texas Holdem poker strategy

Loose callMay 28, 2008THE SITUATION -


I'm playing on Poker Stars , $25 NL. A player I'm targeting raises to .50. That's what he's raised to every hand. So I call. I have A♠ - 8♦

WHY DID I DO WHAT I DID HERE?

You need to be careful with minimum raises. That sometimes ... Read more

Forcing mistakes from your opponentsMay 15, 2008THE SITUATION -


I'm playing $25 NL on Full Tilt .

I'm dealt A-A. OK, very cool.

I raise to $1.50. I always try to raise big when I've got a big pair. I suppose an observant player might pick up on this, but it's worth it to me to try to weed out all those ... Read more

Limiting your lossesMay 10, 2008THE SITUATION -

I'm playing $25 NL in a full ring game on Bodog Poker. I called a raise from late position with K♠ - 10♠. I am in middle position. It's mostly a position call. It's not the best call I ever made, but I want to see what happens. I've had a lot of bad cards and I just want to play a hand. Plus the raise is only .50 more.

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A set against a big drawMay 8, 2008THE SITUATION -

I'm playing with a full stack at Bodog Poker at a $.10/.25 NL table. I'm dealt 5-5 and I'm sitting one off the button. Someone in front of me raises to .50, a minimum raise, and another guy in front of me raises to .75. This is a strange raise, almost an annoyance raise. ... Read more

Set Mining Against an Over PairApr 22, 2008THE SITUATION -

I'm at a full ring .25/.50 NL cash game on Ultimate Bet. I'm dealt 10♥-10♠. I have about $55. I call, along with four others, before the Big Blind raises 7xs the blind to $3.50. The Big Blind has $150, so he's hit some hands.

I call.

WHY DID I DO WHAT I DID HERE?

This is almost always ... Read more

How Would You Play This Hand - NLHE $11,500 GuaranteedMar 31, 2008Full Tilt runs a daily $24+2 tournament at 12:00pm EST. You receive 3000 starting chips and the blind levels increase every 10 minutes. I prefer to play double-stack tournaments because the increased starting chip stack gives you a lot more room to play.

Today’s tournament began with 488 players. The top 45 finishers got paid. 1st place paid $2928, 2nd paid $1815 and 3rd place ... Read more

Online Poker TellsMar 27, 2008As players trying to improve our game, we can never know TOO much about our opponents at the poker table. Every bit of information we gather can help us have an edge when playing with them. The more we know about how our opponents play, the better chance we have of beating them.

Many books have been written on how to pick up tells on your opponents, but how do you do that online? ... Read more

Building a bankrollMar 18, 2008What if I told you there was an easy, relatively risk free way to make $2,000 a month playing poker. All it would take is a starting bankroll of $2,000 and the ability to play 125 hours of poker a month. The only skill set you would need is to be an average to above average heads up player. Sign you up right?

There is a catch involved though. It will require you to play at limits that ... Read more

Playing speculative handsMar 18, 2008We see Daniel Negreanu raising with 10-7 suited on television and hear all the time of the value of suited connectors and speculative hands. Unfortunately, most people don't understand how to play these hands correctly and it results in a huge chip leak.

Too often what players will do with hands like these is make one of two mistakes. The first mistake is that they will ... Read more

Selecting an Online Poker SiteMar 13, 2008Once you’ve decided to take the plunge and play poker online, you are faced with many choices on where to play. Just 10 years ago the only choice, for real money play, was Planet Poker. Two years ago my computer had poker software for 140 separate sites. Today, there may be more than 140 sites but most are simply skins to some of the big online poker networks like; OnGame, Ipoker, and Boss. ... Read more