Count Your “Outs”
Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 Professional
You are going to hear a lot of talk at the poker table about “outs”. This term refers to the number of cards that will make your hand. The most common examples are outs to a flush or straight. For example, you have two diamonds in your hand and two more come on the [...]
Freeroll Tournament
Date: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 Professional
Casinos and card rooms both online and real world will at times offer players a free entry tournament usually as a reward for patronage in the card room. There are a few things you should know about freerolls. First, they are not exactly free. Oh sure the entry to a freeroll tournament is [...]
Runner-Runner
Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 Professional
We have been talking about bad beats and going on tilt, sometimes after a bad beat you will hear the term “runner-runner” to describe what happened in the hand. The term refers to a situation where the winning hand needed both the turn and the river cards to win the hand. For example: One player [...]
Learning from the Bad Beat
Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 Professional
OK you took a nasty bad beat, you busted out of the tournament on the bubble and you missed your freeroll online because you were in the tournament right up until the loudmouth from Chicago hit a nine on the river. We have already reminded you that no one wants to hear your bad [...]
Dealing with a Bad Beat
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 Professional
OK you lost that big hand and you were ahead. Yes, that was a bad beat. Now what? First, Don’t Go on Tilt. Bad Beats happen, it is part of the game and you cannot let one hand that is over and done continue to negatively affect your game. Put it behind you, cool down and [...]
Bad Beat
Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 Professional
What exactly is a bad beat? Technically, any time you are ahead in a hand and your opponent comes from behind to beat you, well technically that is a bad beat. But there is more to a bad beat than that. Let’s say you have KK and your opponent has JJ and the flop comes J84. [...]
Tilt
Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 Professional
Tilt is a term for a state of mental confusion or frustration in which a poker player knowingly adopts a sub-optimal, over-aggressive strategy. [Wikipedia] Placing an opponent on tilt or dealing with being on tilt oneself is a very important aspect of poker. Tilt is a relatively frequent occurrence, due to frustration, animosity between players, or [...]
Tournament Rules #36
Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 Professional
In our continuing look at the Tournament Director’s Association rules, we come to one of the more general rules, this one on Poker Etiquette. TDA Rule #36: Etiquette Violations “Repeated etiquette violations will result in penalties. Examples include unnecessarily touching other players cards or chips, delay of the game, and excessive chatter. Players are required [...]
Rainbow Flop
Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Professional
When the flop comes with three different suits, it is called a rainbow flop. You may hear the tournament director call out a flop: “King, Ten, Four, Rainbow.” This means the K104 were of different suits and the odds of a flush are greatly diminished. To make a flush after a rainbow flop, you [...]
Continuation Bet
Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 Professional
We spoke in our last post about the importance of being able to play after a flop has missed your hand. One of the most recognized “post-flop” strategies is the continuation bet. The continuation bet is one that continues your pre-flop aggression, which generally means you raised before the flop and are going [...]
When the Flop Misses You
Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 Professional
Playing poker with a big hand is fun, you can win a pile of chips, a big hand is exciting BUT it doesn’t happen very often. In fact, in most poker games you will fold many more hands than you play and when you do play, you will miss hitting the flop most of [...]
Min. Raise
Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 Professional
In every form of poker there is a minimum amount you must bet in order to raise the pot, how the minimum is calculate changes from game to game but every form of poker has a minimum raise. Perhaps even more controversial then limping into a pot is just making the minimum raise or “Min. [...]
Limping
Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 Professional
Limping means entering the pot by calling the big blind or making the minimum bet and definitely not raising the pot. Limping is considered to be a conservative play and is frowned upon by aggressive players, particularly No Limit players. There is a lot to be said about limping, here is just a fraction of the [...]
Table Image
Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 Professional
Do you have a table image? Answer: Yes! Why? Because table image in not what you project or how you play or what you say. Table image is how the other players at the table see you and at any poker table there are going to be some players paying attention and formulating an impression of how [...]
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