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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 [...]

One of the biggest mistakes that new players making is refusing to fold their hands when they should. This might be preflop when they decide to play J5 offsuit for a raise, or it might be on the flop when they refuse to fold their QQ and the board reads A K 7. Folding your [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you intend to play poker well, you need to keep accurate records of your wins and losses, even if the money isn’t important to you. When you keep proper records of you poker results, you get to see when your best winning sessions are, if you lost money during longer sessions, an even whether [...]

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 [...]