The real trick to being successful in satellite tournaments in online poker is simply picking the right tournaments! I spent a lot of time playing on PokerStars yesterday and I played mostly satellites. In doing so, I was reminded how profitable it can be to play these tournaments, but you have to choose the right ones. For example, stay away from the...
More on the Best way to Play Small Pocket Pairs in NLH
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...
Why Playing Poker For a Living Is Not Easy Money
With the enormous glut of poker players playing on the internet these days has come a new breed of poker players who want to play poker for a living, or play professionally. It is much easier to do so in this day and age than it used to be. Travel, if you have to do it is much easier. The amount of prize money available online is incredible and most people can...
No Limit Texas Holdem Poker Semi Bluff
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...
More on the Poker Bluff and When to Use It
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...
No Limit Texas Holdem and Learning to Read the Board
If you want to be successful at NLH, then one of the most important aspects is learning to properly read the texture of the board. Becoming proficient at this will in turn make you better at bluffing and taking down pots that do not otherwise belong to you. What do I mean by this? Let me show you. First off, the mistake many people make when they set out to...
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