I'm going to set up a No Limit Hold'em tournament scenario, and your job is to figure out the best play. After you've made your guess, I'll reveal the answer along with the reasoning behind it....
Read More . . .Tournament poker can be a very tough business. No matter how good you are, you're bound to encounter long periods where things don't go well. On the tournament circuit, even the best players...
Read More . . .Perhaps one of the toughest decisions in hold'em is what to do against one or two opponents on the river with top pair. Should you bet or check here?...
Read More . . .In tournaments, I play lots of hands. I'll put my money in with all kinds of connected cards, especially when in position. I might limp, I might min-raise or raise a little more than the minimum, depending on...
Read More . . .Earlier this year, I cashed in the $2,000 Omaha Hi/Lo event at the World Series of Poker. I enjoyed the tournament; it was great to spend some time playing a game other than hold 'em...
Read More . . .During this year's World Series of Poker, I talked with a number of pros about the problems that so many online qualifiers had playing Big Slick during the early blind levels...
Read More . . .In No-Limit Hold 'em, it can be difficult to know what the right play is on the river when you're out of position with a marginal hand...
Read More . . .At this year's World Series of Poker, there are thousands of players walking the halls of the Rio. Moving through the corridors, you're bound to hear players telling tales of the hands that...
Read More . . .This week starts the largest, richest tournament in poker history - the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. For anyone who makes it deep in the tournament, there will be...
Read More . . .For most of the tournament, I was short stacked. But, I think I played my short stack well and, for this tip, I thought I'd share some thoughts I have on short-stack play...
Read More . . .For this tip, I'm going to share an interesting hand from the tournament - one where I made a mistake...
Read More . . .New players who want to be good students of the game often ask me for advice. In response, I often tell them about emotional stability, which I touched on in my last tip. The next point I'd like to make is that they need to be careful when assessing their own play...
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