POKER STRATEGY

December 2011

PokerPAL: AGGRRRRRRession and Range Balancing PokerPAL: AGGRRRRRRession and Range Balancing

By Phil Wise from Badbeat.com.


Previous articles detailed the wide range of hands you need to play pre-flop and explained how to play them aggressively. To reiterate, these included both strong hands and bluff hands from late position. It’s important to carry on this aggression post-flop. Many average players only continue with the hand if they hit post-flop and this becomes a major leak. The lack of aggression will result in a low flop C-bet and low turn C-bet.

The ins and outs of tournament grinding The ins and outs of tournament grinding

A quick exercise to begin this piece. Picture in your mind’s eye a successful winning poker player.

How to get rich playing poker, part 1: The Matthew Effect How to get rich playing poker, part 1: The Matthew Effect

A regular reader of my column might accuse me of cynicism. I’m always banging on about how there’s more luck in poker than most people realise, and that everyone should get a bit less carried away with a good string of results. Well, I’m changing tack this month. This time, I’ll tell you the easy way to get rich playing poker.

November 2011

Amateur to Pro – Calling the Turn Amateur to Pro – Calling the Turn

This is the seventh part of a coaching series featuring Bluefirepoker coach Alan Jackson, the goal of which to create a roadmap that gives amateur poker players the greatest chance for success when trying to take their games to the next level. In the last article we discussed betting the turn and this time we discuss calling the turn.

Alex Rousso on the Full Tilt scandal, Ponzi schemes and The Wire Alex Rousso on the Full Tilt scandal, Ponzi schemes and The Wire

First it was the headline about November Niner Sam Holden in The Sun: “Jobless Brit eyes £5m poker prize”. At the time, we all thought it was funny. Those silly people, they just don’t get it. Sam Holden isn’t jobless – he’s a pro poker player! It should have been a wake-up call for us. Those silly people have some control over what we do, and they’ve been flexing their talons for some time now.

September 2011

Take the race or play the stop ‘n’ go? Take the race or play the stop ‘n’ go?

This is a tournament and you are close to the money or maybe even in the money – it shouldn’t matter. Even though players play differently when they are close to the money because they are afraid of going out, you shouldn’t.

Marginal hands in shoving situations Marginal hands in shoving situations

By Alex 'Pickleman' Rousso


One situation every tournament player finds himself in often is the decision to shove or not with a marginal hand when down to a stack of between five and eight Ms.

From Amateur to Pro Continuation Betting From Amateur to Pro Continuation Betting

By Lee Davy


This is the fifth part of a coaching series featuring Blue Fire Poker’s Alan Jackson. The goal of the series it to create a roadmap that allows amateur poker players to take their games to the next level. In this latest installment, we look at the continuation bet.

Slovenia Deep Stack Slovenia Deep Stack

By Paul Jackson


I was really looking forward to going back to Slovenia for the D4 Events Mediterranean Deep Stack in the lovely Portoroz area of Slovenia. The tournament structure is superb, as is always the case with the D4 Deep Stacks, and this time I had with me a 20-odd player team of Bankrollsupply players, and also a couple of qualifiers who had won seats in the free-to-enter satellites on Poker Encore.

Brace-aments are too much of a gamble Brace-aments are too much of a gamble

Brace-ament: n. Bracelet event which is essentially a crapshoot with an edge. The large field $1k and $1.5k WSOP events. Derived from the words “bracelet” and “donkament”.