Poker Tournament Types: Freezeout – Rebuy – SNG – Freeroll

Online Poker Tournaments Strategy has become a hotly debated topic between online players. The increase in poker tournaments being televised has led to a boom in new tournament players. After watching the pros clash on the final table of a major tournament, many viewers from all over the world immediately jump on their computer, login [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bluffing: The C-Bet in Poker

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 [...]