Posts Tagged ‘Online Poker’
Spin & Go Strategy with Doug Polk and Courtney Gee (Transcript)
Upswing Poker featured pro Doug Polk recently recorded a Spin & Go hand history review session with fellow Team #GrindNation member Courtney Gee. Courtney (aka “courtiebee”) currently resides in western Canada and was a professional poker player before moving over to streaming full-time on Twitch in 2015. A Heads-Up Hyper Turbo specialist, Gee has used…
Read MoreMoney Bubble Strategy: How to Set Yourself Up for the Win
How To Not Blow It On The Bubble Congrats! You did it! You’ve endured through days of that tournament, survived the land mines, circumnavigated all the bear traps, and scaled the chip counts. Only 100 players remain and 99 walk away with some cash money! You call an open with 87 suited, flop a huge…
Read MoreOut Of This World Satellite Tournament Strategy
Ok, ok, forgive me for the cheese-ball satellite joke in the title, I couldn’t help myself. I’ll make it up to you with some solid poker satellite strategy to help you increase that bottom line and get into the events you want to play that your wallet might not be on-board with. Why should you…
Read MoreBeginner’s Guide to Heads-Up Hyper Turbo Sit & Gos
Even if you’re married to cash games and tournaments, it’s hard not to fall a little bit in love with Heads Up Hyper Turbo (HUHT) Sit & Gos every now and again. What’s not to love? 1-on-1 competition, lots of action and fast enough that you can always manage to get a few games in,…
Read More7 Best Twitch Moments from Doug Polk
If you are not following Upswing Poker on Twitch, then you are missing out! In every stream, Upswing Poker coach Doug Polk gives out great online poker strategy tips, with a touch of community interaction and a whole lot fun. But that’s not news to someone who is familiar with Doug Polk’s work. He has…
Read More3 Poker Tips and Strategies from Upswing Coaches
(Photo copyright: Antonio Abrego) Pro poker tips and strategies have never been as plentiful as they are today. You can’t spend more than an hour in the poker corner of the internet without getting information that would be considered advanced poker training back in the 90’s. From poker blogs to poker training websites, we live in…
Read MoreHow to 3-Bet (Like a Boss) in Heads Up No Limit
A 3-Bet is the act of reraising a pot preflop that has already been raised by another player. The objective of 3-Betting is to extract value when your opponent calls and deny them their equity when they fold. Constructing proper 3-Betting ranges is especially crucial in heads up games given the positional disadvantage of the 3-Bettor. Since you must…
Read MoreICM Poker Introduction: What Is The Independent Chip Model?
Long gone are the days where tournament poker was played by “feel” alone. The introduction of basic mathematical terms such as equity and the calculation of odds changed the game of poker forever some time ago. More recently, however, increasingly advanced concepts have been introduced. Among the more relevant are ICM poker: a mathematical model that uses stack sizes…
Read MoreHow to Maneuver a Tournament Short Stack
Monitoring your stack size is one of the most crucial elements of the tournament poker play and beginners often don’t pay it enough attention. Most tournaments start off with 100 BB stacks or higher, but the blinds will continue raising with our stack in relation shrinking. Large 100 BB stacks allow players to employ a wide range of intricate…
Read MoreREVEALED: Pot Odds vs Implied Odds
Pot Odds and Implied Odds When Facing a Bet To many tournament players’ chagrin, pot odds in poker do not refer to how likely you are to score some weed on dinner break. To be a consistently winning poker player it is crucial to have a complete understanding of how to calculate and take advantage of pot…
Read MoreWhat Separates Good Poker Players From the Best (Explained by Doug Polk)
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Doug Polk explains what separates good poker players from the best poker players. In this video Doug shares what he has learned over his career that began at micro stakes and ultimately ended up at the very tip top of the poker world (We are not shy about it here at Upswing, Doug…
Read MoreWhy You Are On A Downswing
Variance is very good at tricking the human brain. Things that seem unlikely, highly improbable, or impossible happen all the time, whether in poker, in the weather report, or even in a professional basketball game. The highly improbable occurred recently in the National Basketball Association. The Golden State Warriors lost to the Los Angeles Lakers…
Read MoreHow To Play Winning Poker
It doesn’t matter if you’re a recreational card player who enjoys a game once a month, or an aspiring pro spending hours grinding out profits every day… But I’m guessing you always knew truly successful players do something different than the rest. Some say it’s ‘natural instinct’… Others put it down to years of practice… practice……
Read MorePro Tip: Don’t Always Continuation Bet
Many players new to poker learn that if they raise preflop and continuation bet the flop, they can often times win the pot right there. This is a very straightforward and simplistic approach to how to play the game. The problem is that when players do this as they are still learning the game, they…
Read MoreThe Must Have Poker Tool
This poker tool is a game changer. Figuring out what hands are strong and what hands are weak is the first strategic concept poker players should learn. As poker players we are constantly assessing how strong our hand is in both an absolute and relative way. Sometimes this is easy to do intuitively. Often times…
Read MoreThe Top 7 Reasons to Defend Your Big Blind
(Art by Ben Wooten) Sometimes I feel like my big blind is under attack from a fire breathing dragon… How many times have you looked down in the big blind at yet another weak hand? You just wanted to get some good hands and try to win a big pot. Now you are in the big…
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