Let’s assume for a second that you were holding a very large bucket. In that bucket were all of the chips from your bankroll. The obvious goal as a poker player would be to fill the bucket until you needed a bigger one. But what if there were a huge hole in your bucket? Your [...]
Continue Reading...Many poker players are notorious for getting angry after losing a big hand. But Tony Korfman took this a step too far and actually strangled an opponent after being rivered on the bubble of a tournament.
The tournament Korfman lost his cool in was a $1,000 re-buy event at the Bellagio. After being rivered on a [...]
One of the worst things you can do in poker is play scared. When playing scared, you aren’t aggressive at all, you avoid making risky plays that could earn lots of chips, and you give the advantage to other players at the table. In short, playing scared is the opposite of how a good rounder [...]
Continue Reading...One phenomenon that online poker has brought with it is the concept of multi-tabling. Multi-tabling sees people playing multiple tables in an effort to play more hands per hour. By playing more hands per hour, players are able to earn more cash in the process (assuming they’re good enough). But many multi-tablers don’t know how [...]
Continue Reading...When you’re holding a big pocket pair before the flop, you know that you are in a position of strength. Even if you don’t improve your hand by the river, you still have a shot to take down the hand. However, things become a lot more complicated when you have a middle pair. That’s because [...]
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