Table Selection in Poker

There is a common saying in the poker world: “If you are the 8th best player in the world and you are on a table with the top 7 players, then YOU are the fish on the table.” This is a trap that even the top players fall into sometimes. If the players on your [...]

How To Bluff In Poker

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 [...]

Poker Tips 17: Know The Odds

The term “odds” simply means “The chance of something happening compared to how much you win if it does happen”, and it is extremely useful information to have. It would be difficult to bet or call bets correctly if you don’t have a solid understanding of odds. Many new players don’t take the time to [...]

Poker Tips 11: Don’t Bluff Bad Players

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 [...]

Online Poker Tournament Tips

In online poker tournaments, particularly large multi-table online poker tournaments, you can’t rely on getting dealt powerful hands often enough to get your through to the final table. You need to accumulate chips, and sometimes you will need to make moves with hands that are less than perfect, or even downright terrible. To win an [...]

Poker Tournament Tips

To win an online multi-table poker tournament, you can’t just rely on getting dealt premium hands. You’ll need to bluff, steal blinds, check-raise, and pull all sorts of tricky manoeuvres, but above all, you must be aggressive, right to the very end. Here are a few tournament tips that will help you get to the [...]

Freeroll Poker Tournament Strategy

Freerolls are poker tournaments that are completely free to enter. They usually offer prize money to the winners, and this prize money can be anything from a few dollars to hundreds of dollars, or even more. Sometimes they will offer entry to a larger tournament instead of, or in addition to, prize money. Freerolls are [...]

Playing Pocket Jacks in Poker

There is a well known saying in poker: “There are three ways to play pocket jacks, all of them wrong.” Pocket Jacks (or “fishhooks”) are well known as being a very difficult hand to play. The reason for this is that they are often the best hand preflop, but more than half the time the [...]

Poker Odds

Poker Odds are an incredibly important part of Texas Hold ’em, as well as any other form of poker. If you don’t know how to calculate poker odds and pot odds you will often find yourself having to guess whether a play is correct or not. Inexperienced players often think that there is some secret [...]

Poker Outs

In Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, as well as any other form of poker than has more than 1 betting round, an “out” is any card that, if drawn (or put on the board as a community card), will improve a player’s hand to one that is likely to win. Knowing the number of outs you [...]