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It is well known that in poker, it is best to have position on your opponent. Position means that for the duration of the hand, your opponents must act before you, allowing you to see their actions and take them into account, while your opponents must act effectively “in the dark” because they don’t yet [...]

The importance of picking a good seat at the poker table is vastly underrated by both novice and intermediate players alike. Even the same cards turning out in the same order will result in vastly different outcomes depending on where you’re sitting compared to the other players at the table. Hands that are profitable when [...]

One of the things that differentiates poker from other card games is that in poker, you don’t always need to have the best hand to scoop in the pot. A well-timed bluff can win you a pot that you would have no chance of winning at showdown with your 7-2 offsuit. There is more to [...]

When you find yourself in a difficult situation, often your first instincts are you best. There will be times when your opponent makes a big bet on the river, and for some reason you just know that he is bluffing. It’s not as mystical or magical as it seems! Often there are many tiny tells [...]

In most forms of poker, such as Texas Hold’em or Omaha, the more players you are up against, the more cautious you need to be. If you are up against a single player on the flop in Texas Hold’em, then being aggressive is usually the best plan. You might have the best hand and get [...]

As a general rule, you shouldn’t show your bluffs at the poker table unless you have a very specific reason to do so. Whenever your opponents see your cards, they gain some knowledge about the sorts of hands you play, the positions you play them in, and also how you play them. Anytime you show [...]

One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a poker player is to assume that all your opponents are sophisticated enough to fold to a cleverly constructed bluff. You might have re-raised preflop, bet the flop, bet the turn, and pushed all in on the river, but if your opponent isn’t very good at [...]

The Continuation Bet, or “C-bet” as it is also called, is among the most well known, and most commonly used moves in Texas Hold ‘em. The move attained significant notoriety when it became the subject of an entire chapter in Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie’s excellent book Harrington on Hold ’em Vol I. Although the [...]

”Firing a second barrel” is a term for a very specific poker situation: you have raised pre-flop and then bet the flop (called a Continuation Bet or C-Bet), and your opponent has called you. On the turn a card comes that doesn’t help you, and you bet again as a bluff. This is called “Firing [...]