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Playing Small Pocket Pairs

Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010

There’s always a twinge of excitement every time you look down to see a pocket pair. Pocket pairs can turn into sets, and sets can turn into big paydays. While small pocket pairs can be some of the most straightforward hands in no-limit, they do present a pitfall or two for the unwary player. I’ll [...]

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The Real Value Of Suited Connectors

Date: Tue, Aug 24, 2010

Suited connectors are widely misunderstood hands. A while back I wrote an article called “How Suited Connectors Cost You Money.” In that article I talked about a common way that many people misplay suited connectors, and how it costs them money. This article is also about suited connectors, but here I’ll focus more on how [...]

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Five Traits Of Winning No-Limit Players

Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010

Everyone regular no-limit hold’em player wants to win money. Only a modest percentage of players, however, actually win over monthlong and yearlong timeframes. What factors determine who wins and who doesn’t? One could come up with thousands of little differences between winners and non-winners. I tend to be more big picture-oriented, so in this article [...]

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Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Now In Paperback (And Cheaper)

Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010

The affordable poker e-book has just gotten more affordable. Today is the first anniversary of the release of Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em, and to celebrate we are announcing two big changes: We are now shipping a paperback edition of the book (unfortunately to United States residents only at the moment) in addition to the e-book versions. We’ve [...]

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What To Do When They Won’t Fold

Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2010

How do you beat a guy who won’t fold? It’s a question I hear asked frequently at the no-limit hold’em table, usually after T-5 suited has made a flush on the river or a pair of fours has called a river bluff. Maybe you’ve even asked it once or twice. I have an answer. I [...]

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40% OFF Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Through Sunday

Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010

Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em is the poker e-book that offers the most bang for your buck. For an affordable price, SSNLHE will show you in over 300 example-driven pages how to add that hard, killer edge to your game. Learn it well, and you’ll be playing bigger and better in no time. But from now through [...]

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Overprotecting Your Hand

Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010

Protecting your hand is a well-known poker concept. If you think you likely have the best hand at the moment, you bet to force your opponents either to fold or to pay to draw out. In no-limit hold’em, however, many players tend to overprotect their hands. Here’s a simple example. When I play live no-limit in [...]

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Winning In Live No-Limit Games

Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010

Most live $1-$2, $1-$3, and $2-$5 players focus on the big pots. They want to see flops, hit hands, and stack opponents holding second-best hands. This focus, unfortunately, does not promote long-term, consistent winning. The problem with it is obvious once you think about it. Everyone else is trying to do the same thing! For [...]

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Measuring Success

Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Poker is a peculiar game. There’s no score. If you’re playing a cash game, there’s no winner. If you’re playing a tournament, there’s one winner and a zillion losers. Your opponents can play terribly and win a bundle. You can play great and crash and burn. All of this peculiarity has left more than one [...]

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Two No-Limit Plays That Make You Easy To Read

Date: Wed, Mar 17, 2010

I play no-limit cash games regularly both live and online. I prefer to play live, and a major reason is because live players are for the most part much easier to read. It’s not that I can magically decode an opponent’s every twitch and tic. Physical tells are sometimes useful, but more important are betting [...]

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Picking Off Bluffs

Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2010

Your no-limit hold’em opponents bluff. I know it may shock you, but it’s true. Are you just going to let them get away with it, or are you going to do something about it? If you don’t have a good plan for dealing with your opponents’ bluffs, you may want to just let them get away [...]

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The Final Hand

Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010

The final hand always gets the most attention. It could be the last hand of a grueling heads-up battle to determine a million dollar tournament winner. Or it could just be the hand you busted out on in your local Wednesday night tournament. Either way, chances are that you (and maybe a lot of other [...]

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Thin Value

Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2010

The longer I’ve played poker, the more I’ve become convinced that a single concept is truly at the core of nearly all successful strategies. It’s a concept that is as important playing no-limit hold’em as it is at limit stud eight-or-better. This central concept is extracting thin value. It’s a simple idea. On the final betting [...]

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Board Textures And Hand Ranges

Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010

Last issue I wrote about how the most useful way to read hands relies on the concept of hand ranges. Because your opponents do not provide you perfect information with their checks, bets, and raises, you cannot quickly narrow down their holdings to just one or a few hands. Instead, you must assign ranges of [...]

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