Posts Tagged ‘Live Poker’
Does Studying Poker Tells Make You a Worse Overall Player?
My name’s Zachary Elwood, and I’ve written some well-known books on poker tells: Reading Poker Tells, Verbal Poker Tells, and Exploiting Poker Tells. I also have a poker tells video series. I was watching the Cate Hall versus Mike Dentale “grudge match” the other day, and Doug Polk and Shaun Deeb were commentating. Doug and…
Read MoreImprove Your Results with this Proven 3-Step Poker Warm Up Routine
Have you ever had an ‘off’ day—a day filled with hesitation and second-guessing of every move you make? You probably have. Days like that come naturally with being a successful poker player, and we’re only human, after all, so we can’t expect to operate at peak performance all the time. That said, we can take…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Guide for Dominating Weak Tournament Competition Pre-flop
A targeted approach—focusing on a particular strategy or game type—is exactly the right approach to take toward improving. However, it’s important to occasionally step back and consider your game from a broad point of view. This is something I’ve […]
Read MoreHow to Win at Poker in 4 Steps
The best poker players in the world tread a calculated path to success, and work constantly to improve their game. Today we’ll discuss four steps you must take to follow their lead—steps toward becoming a winning player. Doug Polk contributed to this article How to Win at Poker Step 1: Pick a game type and…
Read MoreHow to Check-Raise with Short Stacks Like an MTT Boss
Check-raising is an indispensable play in tournaments. Since average stack sizes are shallow, a check-raise will typically represent a large portion of your remaining chips. This allows you to put a lot of pressure on your opponent(s), because in order […]
Read More5 Tips for 4-Betting That Every Aspiring Pro Should Know
A single 4-bet pot can make or break a session. Putting lots of chips in the pot early is not for the faint of heart. When you apply the right strategies, however, you’ll earn your opponents’ respect and win more money. Today we’ve prepared 5 tips from high stakes pro Ryan Fee that will put…
Read More5 Skills That Will Boost Your Live Poker Earnings
Listen up, live poker players! You might technically be playing the same game as your online counterparts, but live poker is a very different animal, and it requires a very particular set of skills for success. I’ve picked out 5 live poker-specific skills to share with you today. Some of these capitalize on common mistakes…
Read MoreBecoming a Pro Poker Player: 7 Things to Consider First
If you love playing poker and are any good at it, you’ve probably dreamed about ditching your current job and taking it up full-time. It’s a tempting proposition, after all. Who doesn’t want do what they love for a living? Be warned, though: poker is a demanding job that’s not for everyone. If you are…
Read MoreHow to Bluff with Flush Draws Like a 3-Time Bracelet Winner
Not all flush draws are the same. This may seem like an obvious point, but it is one that draws attention to a more fundamental concept: different flush draw spots demand different strategies. We’re about to take a look at 3 example hands in which our Hero holds a flush draw. Each of these were…
Read MoreThis Misclick Made Me Bubble the WSOP Main Event
The year was 2010. It was my second time in Las Vegas, and my first World Series of Poker. I arrived pretty early in the series, planning to play a short stint of events over a couple of weeks. I felt great. I had absolutely crushed online in the months leading up to the series,…
Read MoreI Flopped A Massive Draw While Short Stacked… Now What?
I’ve been playing live poker tournaments for about 9 years, and I’ve written down countless interesting hands along the way. Hands from 2009 to 2011 — when big events were unbelievably soft — tend to be the most interesting. In this article series, we’ll take a close look at few of these hands so we…
Read More6 Essential Tips for Dealing with Downswings in Poker Tournaments
Downswings hurt no matter what poker format you play. But downswings in poker tournaments are the stuff of nightmares because variance increases as more players enter a tournament. Avid players of large field tournaments will experience incredible highs–like winning a WSOP bracelet–and devastating lows–like losing for months on end. If you are running bad in…
Read MoreRiver Bets: How to Decide Which Hands to Call Down Vs Triple Barrel
It’s rarely fun to face a triple barrel — bets on the flop, turn and river. Small mistakes are magnified when the pot gets big, and pots are on average the biggest on the river. The results of one river decision can make or break a session. Against good players with relatively balanced […]
Read MoreThis Is Why You Should Use Small Bet Sizes
When I finished writing Applications of No Limit Hold’ em a bit over 4 years ago, my favorite concept to talk about was overbetting. In many ways, it’s still is my favorite topic. That’s because once the theory behind overbetting is laid out, the situations where overbetting is correct are usually […]
Read MoreThe Professional Approach to Straddled and Three-Blind Pots
Even the best poker players in the world lose money from the small and big blind. You’d have to be an action junkie — or hate money — to voluntarily become a third blind… right? Mostly right. That’s where the straddle in poker comes in. A straddle is a blind bet made by a player…
Read MoreHow To Open-Raise In MTTs So The Big Blind Doesn’t Crush Your Soul
MTTs are constantly evolving. New trends emerge, old tricks stop working as the fields learn to adjust, and so on. But while cash games and sit-and-goes are getting closer and closer to being solved by software and the like, MTTs remain the only format where exploitative play is where the money is. Sure, MTTs have…
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