Guides & Reviews

Global Poker and Ignition are two of the biggest online poker sites available to U.S. players. Global Poker operates as a sweepstakes poker site, while Ignition (aka Bovada) functions as a real-money online poker room. Both sites offer above-average player traffic and a solid lineup of game formats at a variety of stakes.  Which is…

BetOnline and Bovada are two of the biggest online poker sites available to U.S. players.  Both sites offer a solid lineup of game formats at a variety of stakes. BetOnline and Bovada each offer their services as offshore gaming sites, operating in the United States in somewhat of a legal gray area. Which is better…

There are countless ways to use GTO trainers like Lucid GTO to improve your poker skills. Upswing Poker founder Doug Polk recently joined Upswing VP Mike Brady to discuss eight tips to help players get maximum value from the Lucid GTO Trainer tool, available now from Upswing Poker. Let’s dive into the eight tips Doug…

In a standard deck of playing cards, face cards refer to any jack, queen, or king in the deck. The term derives from the fact that these cards usually depict faces of the jack, queen, and king (aka members of the royal court). Let’s take a look at what face cards are, and discuss a…

Four Card Poker is a poker game that you’ll often find on the floor of a casino. You’ll find Four Card Poker in the gaming pit, along with related games like Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Let It Ride. If you’re familiar with the rules of poker, you’ll quickly grasp the rules of…

Poker home games often play with no limits to the number of different poker variants you might see at the table. While No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha are the most popular games you’ll see at poker rooms around the world, they’re just a small part of the total number of ways to play poker. If…

  Chinese poker is a card game in the poker family that plays quite differently from traditional game variants that most poker players are familiar with (like Texas Hold’em). Each player gets 13 cards in a game of Chinese poker, and is tasked with making two five-card hands and a three-card hand. A player scores…

Sharkscope functions as one of the longest-running poker databases in the industry. The Sharkscope database includes online poker tournament results that go back nearly 20 years, covering a wide range of poker sites. The database still remains a vital tool for modern-day online poker tournament players. The following review aims to answer a couple of…

The continuation bet (aka c-bet) represents one of the most fundamental concepts in poker. In community card games like Texas Hold’em and Omaha, most flops include the opportunity for a player to make a c-bet. By definition, a c-bet happens when a player raises preflop, then continues with another bet on the flop. A player…

Jumping into the game of poker can present an intimidating task. Sitting in on your first poker game introduces you to a whole new world of poker rules, terms, math, etiquette, and more. Most of the games played in a poker room and on television involve No-Limit Hold’em, which is Texas Hold’em played with no-limit…

Step into any casino and you’ll be surrounded by ample opportunities to play cards. Not all card games a created equal, however. Most of the games you’ll encounter on a casino floor give the house a mathematical edge, making it impossible for the player to turn a profit in the long run. The following list…