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Money Bubble Tactics: Maximize Your Edge as the Pressure Builds

Make no mistake: pre-money play is a lot more dynamic than simply running everyone over as the big stack or running for cover when you’re short. The continual redistribution of chips as players win and lose pots, combined with the shrinking field and looming bubble, makes the stages leading up to the in-the-money (ITM) phase…

Soft Bubble Strategy: How to Survive & Thrive with Any Stack Size

Dominate? Survive? Is it time to gamble? As you approach the money in poker tournaments, the best approach will depend on multiple factors, not just how much you need the cash. Concepts like ICM and chipEV get tossed around by poker’s intelligentsia, yet even the most studious can be clueless. Stack asymmetry, field sizes, player…

How to Exploit Maniac Poker Players

Note: The new Lucid Poker channel will be posting helpful videos like this regularly. Click here to subscribe! Once again, you are forced to muck ATo after the same opponent has 3-bet you preflop for what feels like the millionth time in a row. You sit there, tilted, thinking “How am I ever going to…