How To Play Suited Connectors

In Texas Hold’em poker, as in every other form of poker, you should only play hands that will show a profit over the long run. There are usually 3 factors that affect the profitability of a hand in Texas Hold’em Poker: 1. The strength of your hand 2. Your position at the table 3. Your [...]

Playing Poker Out Of Position

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 [...]

Position in Poker

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learn To Play Poker

While poker is one of those games that can be learned quickly, it can also take a lifetime to master. This article will hopefully get you up to speed a little bit quicker than that! We will help you break it the game of poker down step by step, and show you what to focus [...]

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 [...]