Other Recent Articles

• Sample Chapter From the Poker Tracker Guide

  Love Poker Tracker but feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the info available? You need the Poker Tracker Guide. We like it so much that we’ve reprinted a chapter of the guide for you to check out - read it, love it and then   …full article

• Finesse: Flop Play in Limit Hold ‘Em

  This article will cover one scenario of when to cap, and when to call the third bet on the turn in limit. The scenario:
  You hold AcKh
  Flop is AsKc2s
  Your opponent often will be very aggressive on a flush draw on the flop. You know him to   …full article

• Don’t Punch the Fish in Limit Hold’em Poker

  One of the more common mistakes players at low, and sometimes mid limit texas holdem games is to “go after” someone that took a pot off them. I see good players play marginal hands because they know that the moron/fish at the table is likely   …full article

• Bingo? No, but we have limit holdem…

  Most games start with each player getting 2 cards, looking at those, and accessing their strength in relation to the other players on the table. I came across a game in a casino where this wasn’t the standard process. In this game first, they check   …full article

• Where are the Mistakes?

  The other day a friend of mine was complaining about a bad beat. I normally charge $1.00 to listen to a bad beat, but he caught me off guard while I was online. It seems that someone had called my friend down with an ace   …full article

• Changing Your Play in Limit Texas Holdem: Part 2 – The Aggressive Maniac

  The aggressive maniac can change the table in a few different ways. Some players like to follow the aggressor up with a re-raise for any hand they are comfortable playing against a raise where they don’t respect the raiser. These raises are predictable and easy   …full article

• Changing Your Play in Limit Texas Holdem: Part 1 – The Loose Maniac

  Every decent poker book I’ve ever read has been consistent in at least 2 things. 1- Better hands are needed in earlier positions, and 2- Change your play. Position and style varying are the hardest two things to really understand in poker and yet when   …full article

• A little thing about position

  I had a friend tell me that the books they have read say to play high level the same way you would low level if you want to make money consistently. Whatever book they read didn’t make the point very clear, as he thought that   …full article

• Switching From No Limit Holdem to Limit Holdem

  Players switch from NL to limit for a variety of reasons - some players may just not like the bankroll swings that come with NL; some (like myself) may have taken a prop job where the only game that pays is limit; others may find   …full article

• Leaks in Your Shorthanded Limit Hold ‘Em Game

  Playing shorthanded limit poker can be extremely profitable - see all the reasons why you shouldn’t play shorthanded to understand why a skilled player can significantly improve their BB/hr playing short. But even good players making the transition to short play generally find they have   …full article