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Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll - Part 3: River Bluffing

Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008

In Part 2 of Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll, I discussed how the relative strength of your hand reading skills versus your opponents’ is a big factor in whether you’re ready to move up or not. The river betting round is the one that allows you to benefit most from sharp hand reading, [...]

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The No-Limit Isolation Play

Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008

The isolation play is one of the most profitable weapons in the professional cash game player’s arsenal. Yet it is also one of the least understood by most amateur players. Teaching the play thoroughly would take a book, not an article, so my goal here is merely to try to shed some light on [...]

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Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll - Part 2: River Value Betting

Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008

In Part 1 of Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll, I claimed that the two factors most cited in discussions of moving up, winrate and bankroll, don’t tell the whole story. If you’re thinking about moving up, you should consider some other factors just as much. The first factor is your overall comfort level at your [...]

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Moving Up: Beyond Winrate And Bankroll - Part 1: Comfort Level

Date: Mon, Aug 25, 2008

Are you ready to move up to higher stakes? How can you know when you are? These questions are on the minds of most serious players at least some of the time. Conquering your current game and moving on to bigger and better things is the goal of most players. Most discussion about moving up I see [...]

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Three Plays You Can Try Today To Open Up Your No-Limit Thinking

Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2008

Poker players get stuck in ruts. We make so many decisions when we play that it’s natural for us to develop a sort of default, automatic way of handling most situations. Automatic plays are, on one hand, a practical necessity. I play about 500 hands an hour, and I probably make at least 800 to [...]

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Macro And Micro Poker

Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2008

I’ve published this article a few times in the past, but I wanted to republish it for those who haven’t seen it before. I edited and updated it a bit this time around. Periodically, I’ll read an article about “feel” players versus “math” players. The “feel” players lob a shell: “Math players just don’t get it. [...]

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The Short Stackers’ Bread And Butter Play

Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008

Quite a few short stackers play in the $2-$4 and higher online 6-max no-limit games. Many of them play a strategy that seems likely to me to be profitable. I think a decent chunk of their profit comes from a play that I see them make repeatedly that I think many full stacked regulars don’t [...]

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Ed Recommends: Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand At A Time

Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2008

I just finished reading my first poker strategy book in quite a while (probably the first one since The Mathematics of Poker). It’s a tournament book published by Matthew Hilger’s company, Dimat, and it’s good. The book has a long title and an even longer author list, so I’m going to make a new paragraph [...]

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Short Stack Play Is Not A Fight Against The Blinds

Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2008

Here’s a question I hear all the time: “How short a stack can you play before it’s not profitable anymore? At some point the blinds eat you away too fast and you can’t wait for a good hand anymore, right?” This question is based on a false assumption that is the subject of today’s article. Yes, there [...]

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Sniffing Out Bluffs

Date: Thu, Jul 31, 2008

Your opponent – perhaps sensing weakness or perhaps taking leave of his senses – pushes out a huge bet and dares you to call. If he has the hand he’s supposed to have, you’re crushed. But you think something is amiss and decide that this is it. You’re going to take a stand. Just after [...]

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Extracting Bonus Value on Dry Boards

Date: Mon, Jul 28, 2008

Dry boards sometimes offer a golden opportunity to get extra value for your medium strength hands like top pair. Many players are always looking to sniff out a bluff on a dry board, and you can use that fact to your advantage if you have a hand that beats a typical bluff catcher. In particular, [...]

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Q&A #111: Committment With Tournament Stack Sizes

Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2008

Many tournament players make a consistent mistake. They focus too much on conserving their chips and preserving their “tournament life,” and in doing so they leave big pots hanging out to dry. I see it frequently when I play tournaments. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. The blinds are 200-400, and the big blind [...]

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Betting For Value Versus Inducing A Bluff

Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008

When you’re out of position with a made hand, the most common decision is whether to bet your hand for value or to check it, looking to induce a bluff. I find that most players tend to make this decision more based on their overall style than on any individual situation. Some players tend to bet [...]

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Avoid Adjustment Tilt

Date: Fri, Jul 18, 2008

Recently I benefited from a serious case of what I call adjustment tilt. I was in a live $2-$5 no-limit game. Most of the players, including me, had helped to start the game a few hours earlier, so we were familiar with each others’ play. Some of the players had modestly weak-tight tendencies, so I made [...]

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