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 [...]
Continue Reading...Most beginning poker players concentrate heavily on the concept of pot odds when they first start playing. After all, being able to calculate pot odds is very useful in helping you to determine whether or not to make a call. However, using pot odds will only get you so far on the poker table so [...]
Continue Reading...If you’re down to the short-handed portion (5 or less players) of a sit and go then you’ve done pretty well up to that point. After all, most sit and go’s involve 9 or 10 players so you have to play solid to avoid an early elimination. However, playing well early on isn’t going to make you [...]
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