The Squeeze Play
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008
The squeeze play has a bit of a daring and clever feel to it. It’s a bluff (or semi-bluff) perpetrated against not one, but several opponents. Someone bets, one or more players call, then you raise. When it works, you feel like a champ, and you rake a big pot. When it doesn’t work, “Oops.” Here’s [...]
Hand Discussion #12: My Thoughts
Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2008
Here are my thoughts about the most recent hand discussion. For reference, here’s the original question: This hand is a hand reading exercise. I chose the hand because I think both players’ hand ranges are fairly well-defined by the river. What do you think are each players’ hand ranges? And how well do you think these [...]
Hand Discussion #12: No-Limit Hand Reading
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008
This hand is a hand reading exercise. I chose the hand because I think both players’ hand ranges are fairly well-defined by the river. What do you think are each players’ hand ranges? And how well do you think these players played their hands (obviously a somewhat difficult question to answer without knowing exactly what [...]
Hand Discussion #12: No-Limit Hand Reading
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008
This hand is a hand reading exercise. I chose the hand because I think both players’ hand ranges are fairly well-defined by the river. What do you think are each players’ hand ranges? And how well do you think these players played their hands (obviously a somewhat difficult question to answer without knowing exactly what [...]
Hand Discussion #12: No-Limit Hand Reading
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008
This hand is a hand reading exercise. I chose the hand because I think both players’ hand ranges are fairly well-defined by the river. What do you think are each players’ hand ranges? And how well do you think these players played their hands (obviously a somewhat difficult question to answer without knowing exactly what [...]
Archive Review: Adjusting To Game Conditions
Date: Sun, Mar 23, 2008
Today’s archive review focuses on adjusting your strategy to changing game conditions. Some of the articles talk about adjusting to the differences between full ring and 6-max, and some talk about adjusting your strategy in light of new information from seeing your opponents play. Both limit and no-limit are covered in these articles, so pay [...]
Q&A #102: Online Poker Multitabling How-To
Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008
The first time I heard about someone 6-tabling online, it blew my mind. How on earth do you play six games at once? At the time, when I played online, I played either one or two games only. Then people were 8-tabling. Then 12-tabling. Now some people use simple, specialized strategies and play 24 games [...]
Professional No Limit Hold’em: Volume II Update
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008
I got a couple of emails this morning asking me when Professional No Limit Hold’em: Volume II was coming out, and I realized that I hadn’t given you guys an update in a while, so here we go. Progress is very good, and I’m really excited with how the book is turning out. We’re writing furiously, [...]
Professional No Limit Hold’em: Volume II Update
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008
I got a couple of emails this morning asking me when Professional No Limit Hold’em: Volume II was coming out, and I realized that I hadn’t given you guys an update in a while, so here we go. Progress is very good, and I’m really excited with how the book is turning out. We’re writing furiously, [...]
Fearsome Check-Raise Bluffs Made Easy
Date: Mon, Mar 17, 2008
Playing out of position in no-limit hold’em puts you at a big disadvantage. Consequently, I recommend avoiding it as much as possible. Does that bully in the four seat keep raising your blind? For the most part, I say let him have it. When you’re playing with $200 stacks, a measly $2 blind isn’t a [...]
Beware The Ides Of March Update
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008
Two weeks ago I talked about my (relatively) new online poker experiment. For years I never much liked playing online, and I pretty much stuck to playing live. It may seem peculiar that I’ve played poker for six years and only now am I really getting into online poker, but for some reason I just [...]
Q&A #101: Sweetening The Pot In No Limit
Date: Wed, Mar 12, 2008
Have you heard someone say that they’re raising in order to sweeten the pot? Do you think they’re nuts? Or is there method to their madness? This is today’s question from Greyzy: Every once in a while I hear someone saying that he raised preflop with DRAWING hands like ATs- to sweeten the pot. Personally I [...]
Blocking Bets and The Mathematics Of Poker
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008
This week I’ve been reading The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. It’s quite a piece of work. The bulk of the book focuses on finding game theoretically optimal (GTO) solutions to simplified “toy” poker games. The purpose of these exercises is clearly twofold: To lay the groundwork for formulating GTO solutions to [...]
Blocking Bets and The Mathematics Of Poker
Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2008
This week I’ve been reading The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman. It’s quite a piece of work. The bulk of the book focuses on finding game theoretically optimal (GTO) solutions to simplified “toy” poker games. The purpose of these exercises is clearly twofold: To lay the groundwork for formulating GTO solutions to [...]
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