The following is a question and answer from a poker playing buddy of mine, where we discussed making it to the final table in a No Limit Holdem tournament: Question:  I have been playing live and I can get to the final table most of the time.  When I get there I have very little chips and it makes me go all in and then I go out from there.  Same thing...

I don’t know what I bother to watch these little ‘Tips from the Pros’ videos that Full Tilt keeps putting out, other than to get a chuckle out of the mis-information that FT continues to put out under the guise of ‘learning poker. This particular turd has Durrr explaining a hand that he played against Doyle Brunson in Poker After...

Nov 30, 2010

It seems like I am always playing poker against players who are surprised when they lose coin flips. Of course, many times, they are probably too stupid to realize that they are involved in a coin-flip type hand, but for the most part, if you are going to engage in coin flip hands, you have to be prepared to lose about half of them over time. That is not to say...

Nov 12, 2010

I tend to discuss how to play pocket pairs a lot. I think it is extremely important to your overall poker strategy and most players seem to struggle with playing smaller pairs like 4′s or 6′s. It’s easy to get excited when you get dealt a pair in Texas Hold’em. It always seems like a good thing to look down and see two matching cards in...

A much more effective weapon to have in your poker arsenal than just the ‘stone cold hope your opponent folds’ bluff, is the semi bluff. Everyone sees the bluffs made by pro players on ESPN where they had 2-5 off suit and took down a pot that had an Ace on the board, by bluffing and getting the other player to fold. However, the semi-bluff is more of...

Yesterday I talked about some good times to bluff. As you learn to read the board better and better you will more easily identify situations that you can successfully bluff in. Today I will point out some obvious and some not so obvious situations where you probably should not bluff. First off, boards when you have several players in the pot, a board that...