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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 [...]

Everyone has heard a story about some guy who won a major tournament while drinking whiskey for 10 hours straight, but the obvious truth is that when you play poker drunk, you are not playing your best. Poker is a game that requires its competitors to make many complex decisions all the way through a [...]

In poker, just as in life, common sense is usually a very accurate meter for deciding correct actions from incorrect actions. Many times players get over involved by being tricky, and forget the power of taking simple actions: “I have the best hand, so I will raise” “I have a losing hand, so I will fold” [...]

One of the most boring stories ever told in the history of the world consists of a “Bad Beat”. These stories usually go like this: “I had aces, and this other guy had kings, and he went all in and I called and I totally lost.” Or some other amazingly uninteresting variation of the same [...]

In poker, sometimes you will have a bad start, or get a bad beat that puts you down significantly for the session. Some players get tempted to “chase” their losses by playing even more risky poker, and drawing at hands that they are getting incorrect odds to draw at. This usually ends up digging them [...]

All poker players go through runs of bad or good luck at some point. Times when your Aces get cracked over and over again, or times when you seem to flop a monster just about every hand. These runs of luck can lead people to believe that winning at poker isn’t based on skill at [...]

Playing online poker as a professional really is a dream come true for some people. For others, it has all the pressure, stress, and boredom of a regular job. If you are considering making the leap and becoming a professional online player, let me go through a few of the advantages and disadvantages to the [...]

David Sklanzky once described the objective of poker as ”winning the battle of mistakes”. If you make small, infrequent mistakes, and your opponents make large, common mistakes, then in the end all the money will be sitting in your stack. Playing completely perfect, mistake free poker 100% of the time is impossible, but avoiding some [...]

You gotta know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin at the table, there’ll be time enuff for countin’ when the dealin’s done.” -Kenny Rodgers, The Gambler When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we [...]