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No Limit Holdem Postflop Play: Taking Stock After The Flop

Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 Internet Live

The flop is the defining moment in holdem. Play before the flop focuses on setting yourself up to flop something good. Play after the flop is about figuring out what your opponent flopped and drawing at or defending against draws made on the flop. Before the flop you’re dealing with hypotheticals unless [...]

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Reading The Board In Holdem & Omaha High

Date: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 Internet Live

Reading the board quickly and accurately is an important skill for both players and dealers. It is the process of looking at the community cards and determining the following information: What hands are possible on the current board What draws are possible (assuming there are cards to come) Where a given set of hole cards sits into [...]

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Figuring Out Where You Stand On The Flop in Holdem

Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 Internet Live

One mistake I see a lot of holdem players making is that they incorrectly estimate the strength of their hand on the flop. This can lead to some ugly mistakes in play. While most players eventually learn by experience what hand/board combinations are strong and which are vulnerable or near-certainly beat, this process [...]

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Review: Professional No-Limit Hold ‘Em

Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 Internet Live

Authors: Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, Ed Miller Publisher: 2+2 Professional No-Limit Hold ‘Em was a widely anticipated book. The literature on NL holdem is very sparse, which is somewhat odd given that it is currently the most widely played form of casino poker. Over the last couple of years, 2+2 publishing has put a [...]

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Trip Report: Vegas, Oct. 21-25 2007

Date: Sat, Oct 27, 2007 Internet Live

I got back from Las Vegas a couple of days ago. This trip was very similar to the last one - I stayed at the MGM and played primarily mid-stakes games. I really have very little to report because all the observations from last trip stayed unchanged. The 20-40 stud at the Bellagio [...]

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Review: Play Poker Like A Pigeon (And Take The Money Home)

Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2007 Internet Live

Author: Anonymous Publisher: Lyle Stuart/Kensington Given the hordes of formulaic books published on poker in the last decade, it’s nice to see the occasional book that breaks out of the mold and goes a different directions. Such books have a tendency to be either very insightful or steaming piles of crap. This one happens to [...]

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Making Poker Math Easier

Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 Internet Live

A while back we did a big example of odds math and discounting outs.  These examples were somewhat complicated because I wanted to give a comprehensive picture of what can be involved in an odds problem.  Indeed, these problems were so complicated that the math really pushed the edge of what a player could be [...]

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Starting Hands For No Limit Holdem (Part Two)

Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 Internet Live

In the last NL holdem I wrote about basic starting hand selection for deepstack play. The key concept was to play hands that are likely to make the nuts, in position, for a raise. Now I’m going to discuss some associated topics and some exceptions to the rule.

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Hot & Cold Hand Odds In Holdem And Domination

Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 Internet Live

A key concept in holdem, especially in NL, it “hot and cold” comparison of starting hands - namely the the odds of each pair of hole cards winning in a two hand matchup that always goes to the river. While it’s not important to memorize these odds exactly (and I’m not even going to [...]

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Starting Hands For No Limit Holdem (Part One)

Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 Internet Live

As I stated previously, starting hand selection is not as critical to success in deepstack no limit holdem as it is in other forms of poker. Various players have adopted radically different strategies and yet still achieved good results. However, that doesn’t mean you should neglect the subject altogether. What it does mean [...]

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More About Big Preflop Folds In Tournaments

Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2007 Internet Live

As a result of Saturday’s column, I’ve had an interesting email conversation with Mike Caro about the subject of big folds in tournaments. I suppose it’s always a little bit dicey criticizing someone’s work, because you never know how they’re going to respond, but I’m glad to report that Mike and I had an [...]

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Mike Caro Inserts Foot In Keyboard

Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 Internet Live

I want to like Mike Caro. I really do. Every discipline needs it’s mad genius, and the man certainly has the hair for the job. But I can’t deny his Poker Player column is making a encore appearance on “Nonsense Debunked”. That’s not a good thing. This week’s nonsense [...]

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