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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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Reading Hands Using Hand Ranges

Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010

Reading hands is a critical poker skill. The better you can key in on the sort of hands your opponents have, the better decisions you will make, and the better your results will be. Most players use some sort of hand reading process to inform their decisions. But not all hand reading processes are equally good. [...]

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New Years Special: 35% Off Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em

Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009

35% OFF on Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em until January 15. To celebrate the New Year and also the release of the updated Version 1.1 of Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em, we are offering a limited-time 35% discount. Until January 15, you can get your copy for $64.95. Here’s what you get for your money: A comprehensive guide to [...]

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Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Version 1.1 Released

Date: Tue, Dec 29, 2009

Yesterday we released the first major update to our affordable poker e-book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em. 2009 has been an absolute explosion for e-books, not just in poker, but across the board. Amazon Kindle, for instance, is now Amazon’s #1 selling product out of every product they sell. And this Christmas, Amazon sold more e-books [...]

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The Pitfalls Of Running Bad

Date: Sat, Dec 19, 2009

Last issue I discussed five ways that running particularly good for a while can negatively affect your play. In this article, I’ll talk about how running bad for a prolonged period of time can get in your head and have you making bad decisions. Running bad is the boogeyman for every poker player. There’s nothing more [...]

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Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em Update Coming Soon

Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009

Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em is getting an upgrade! If you haven’t read this book yet, and if you are a serious micro or small stakes no-limit player, now is a great time to get your copy! Since it came out nearly six months ago, Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em by Ed Miller, Sunny Mehta, and Matt [...]

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The Pitfalls Of Running Good

Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009

I’ve always thought that one of the worst things that can happen to new poker players is for them to run really good right out of the gate. If they rack up a number of big wins early on, a couple of bad things can happen. First, they get unrealistic expectations about the game. They [...]

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Winning Stacks

Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2009

Stacking your opponent is the ultimate no-limit high. There’s nothing more exhilarating than winning a huge pot. But, beyond that, stacking opponents is a critical no-limit skill. I’ve noticed that the best players tend to be far more adept than the average player at encouraging opponents to part with all of their money. Anyone can win [...]

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The Three Stages Of A Tournament

Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009

Cash games tend to be relatively static. The blinds don’t change. The stack sizes can vary, but they tend to vary from fairly deep to really deep. And after any hand you can get up from the table and cash your chips in for dollars. So each chip is always worth to you at least [...]

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Are You Paying Off Too Much?

Date: Fri, Nov 6, 2009

Whenever I have a bad session, I spend the next hour or two doing a post-mortem in my head. What went wrong? Could I have done something different to play better and (presumably) lose less money? I go through all the significant hands and analyze my play. Should I have raised there instead of called? [...]

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Alas, An Overcard

Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009

One common scenario confounds nearly every beginning hold’em player. People ask me about it time and time again. If they hold a big pocket pair, and an overcard comes on the flop, they are lost. They are doubly lost if they have to navigate the minefield of an overcard from out of position. People dread a [...]

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