01 February 2012
How to get rich playing poker Part II: Exploiting the Matthew Effect
Last month I looked at how to get rich playing poker. I considered there to be two ways: 1) the Joey Knish way – of grinding, day in day out, until you’ve made enough to call yourself rich; or 2) the easy way.
04 January 2012
The Art of Thin Value Betting
By Andrew Moseley
I want to share some of my thinking behind thin value betting and when it should be executed against different types of opponents. Thin value-betting is one of those sexy poker terms that people like to throw around without much inclination of how or when to utilise it. In basic terms a thin value bet is when you make a bet for value with a marginal hand.
01 December 2011
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
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
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.
02 November 2011
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.
01 November 2011
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.
29 September 2011
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
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.
14 September 2011
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.