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December 28, 2009

Four Betting – It's Not Always Aces

A commonly used phrase in the poker world is “the fourth bet is always aces.” This used to be true, but in today's poker world filled with hyper aggressive kids and savvy veterans, players are now willing to put in a 4th bet with nothing. Think back to the Phil Ivey hand against Paul Jackson where the two went to battle with Ivey holding Q-8 and Jackson 6-5 on a J-J-7 board with Ivey winning the hand making a fifth bet all in, and he most certainly did not have aces. Read more

June 22, 2007

Bankroll Considerations for the Professional and Semi-Professional II

Now, let's put the foregoing to use in constructing a bankroll plan. How should you proceed? First, you should begin by determining your own salary or wage. If you are playing indefinitely, then you'll need a yearly amount you want to earn. If you are playing for only a few months, then set a total for those months. For example, you might set a yearly goal of $30K.Second, you will need to determine how many hours per day or per week you want to spend playing poker. Let's say you want to spend 30 hours per week. Read more

June 17, 2007

Bankroll Considerations for the Professional and Semi-Professional

In a previous article in which my focus was moving up in limits, I addressed bankroll as it applies to the amateur player. The amateur does not need to make money playing poker and so can afford to take shots more aggressively than can someone who depends on poker income. Read more

May 24, 2007

Rating your opponents in Poker

>Poker is described several ways; a game of incomplete information, a game of money played with cards, or in No Limit, a game of people played with cards. Sun Tzu said, "Know thy enemy." The question is, how can we evaluate our opponents quickly and accurately while sitting at the poker table? When playing against the same opponents in a regular poker game, we should have some type of notes. And online, the note feature, available on most poker sites, allows us to quickly annotate their play, but often we are sitting with opponents we have never met. Read more

March 25, 2007

Blind Stealing

As your game develops over time, one skill you must develop is the ability to play without the cards. One of the first stepping-stones to developing this skill is stealing the blinds. In this article I will cover various features of this play that need to be considered before attempting it. What is a blind steal? You find yourself in late position, you raise with two cards, and everyone folds. Congratulations, you just successfully stole the blinds. The play is deceptively simple. Read more

March 19, 2007

Little Decisions vs. Big Decisions in No Limit Hold 'em

Lou Krieger described poker as a series of decisions. Good decisions stack the chips. Bad decisions lose chips. Recently at a home game one of the regular losers sat lamenting those hands that he would have won had he stayed in to the river, or saw the flop. The most insidious characteristic of Hold 'em is, that you always see what you would have had. This "results" oriented perspective usually gives you an expensive ticket to the ATM, for another buy-in. The only way to win every hand possible is to play every hand and call all bets or raise. Read more

March 15, 2007

Exploiting the Blocking Bet

In my last article I described the blocking bet and gave particular instances in which it ought to be used along with types of opponents to use it against. One opponent you should avoid attempting the blocking bet on is an experienced aggressive opponent. These players have seen tons of blocking bets, recognize them, and exploit them. The blocking bet is designed to get to a cheaper showdown than a check followed by a call. Thus exploiting an opponent's blocking bet is achieved by denying a cheap showdown with either a bluff raise or a value raise. Read more

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