Ready to put your Pot Limit Omaha skills to the test? These 10 quiz questions are based on cutting-edge PLO solver research, and many of the correct answers are only slightly better than the other options. When you get a question correct, make a note and share your total score … [Read more...]
How to Check-Raise on the River Like a Pro
It’s difficult to play out-of-position as the preflop caller. In this scenario our opponent, the preflop raiser, has both a range advantage and a positional advantage. However, we can still implement a well-thought-out check raising strategy, which will hinder our opponent's … [Read more...]
4 Insights from 11 Years, 70,567 MTTs, and 6,304,190 Hands of Poker
I've written poker strategy at Upswing for the past year and a half. During this time I've mostly covered specific topics – like bounty MTTs, blind defense, and staking. I strongly believe that working on just one area of your game at a time is the best way to improve, but as … [Read more...]
How to Destroy Your Opponent After Seeing One Showdown
Sometimes it takes just one showdown for a great poker player to change their game plan and start crushing opponents. In this article I will teach you how to start thinking like a truly great player when it comes to making these immediate adjustments. You will first be presented … [Read more...]
Poker Bankroll Management Tips & Tools That Work In 2018
Part of becoming a great player is establishing proper poker bankroll management principles. Not only do you need to be skilled to be a great player, you also need discipline and money management abilities. Top players go broke sometimes. Even Upswing’s own Doug Polk once felt … [Read more...]
5 Biggest Online Poker Pots Explained
Today, we’re going to mix things up a bit by discussing the 5 biggest online poker pots in No Limit Hold'em (according to highstakesdb). All 5 pots are well over a half million dollars, and were played at “Rail Heaven,” which is a colloquial term for $500/$1,000 (the biggest … [Read more...]
4 Cash Game Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
Today we’re going to discuss some of the most common mistakes cash game players make, both novice and experienced alike, and what you can do to avoid them. Click to tweet. The 4 mistakes in this article are mostly general in focus, which means they’ll improve your playstyle … [Read more...]
4 Mistakes to Avoid for More Profitable Postflop Decisions
Top poker players are adept at putting their opponents on a range of hands. This battle-hardened skill in turn leads to more profitable decision making. By contrast, players who are unable to properly range their opponents are often forced to guess whether an opponent either … [Read more...]
How to Play Small Pocket Pairs in Tournaments
The disguised nature of a flopped set makes small pocket pairs very profitable. However, although they are profitable for most players, some tend to play them wrong in certain situations. A common mistake, for instance, is flatting too many small pocket pairs versus early and … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Improve Your Results in Multi-Way Pots
Multi-way pots can cause headaches, and it’s easy to understand why. More players means more variables, and potential for the pot to swell quickly. But if you want to crush live games or low stakes games online--where loose and passive preflop play is common--you'll need a sound … [Read more...]
4 Do-or-Die Tournament Situations Explained
The situations heavily impacted by Independent Chip Model (ICM) are truly where money is won and lost in tournament poker. You can crush an entire tournament and then make an ICM-punt at the final table that costs you all the expected value you grinded to build. Today we’ll … [Read more...]
3 Tips to Help You Maximize Your Winnings with Overpairs
How do you play overpairs after the flop? “Play ‘em fast,” someone told me years ago. “If you don’t, you'll miss out on value.” Despite its simplicity, this is generally good advice. The idea, of course, is to get maximum value from what’s presumably the best hand. But nothing … [Read more...]
How Poker Antes Should Change Your Tournament Raising Strategy
Do you open roughly the same range from each position regardless of antes? If so, you are making a costly mistake. Many players leak chips by failing to adjust their preflop ranges when there's dead money to go after. With antes in play, the pot is roughly 40% bigger preflop. … [Read more...]
4 GTO Myths That Way Too Many Poker Players Believe
GTO? More like GT-NO! Today we’ll be debunking 4 big myths about game theory optimal poker strategy, or “GTO,” as it’s now commonly called. With insights from Ryan Fee and acclaimed poker writer Matthew Janda (from their new GTO module in the Upswing Lab), we’re determined to … [Read more...]
3 Can’t-Miss Insights from a Cash Game Millionaire
One of the best players to ever grace the 6-max cash game format, Andres "Educa-p0ker" Artinano, is here to drop some serious knowledge bombs. If you’ve not heard of him and are curious about his credentials, just have a look at his cash game graph:Today Andres will … [Read more...]
Open-Raising with a Short Stack in Tournaments Explained
Most players leak chips with a short stack in tournaments, despite how important short stack play is. To become an elite tournament player, you must aim for perfection with your short stack game. This starts with learning the preflop fundamentals. Today, I'm going to get you … [Read more...]
