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• Tournament selection: The overlooked art form

  There have been more articles than I can count on game selection in cash games. It has been said this is the key to maximizing profits. Post-UIGEA it has been the key to many midlevel cash games pros’ very survival in online poker. A typical   …full article

• The Misuse and Abuse of the Continuation Bet

  I’m sure everyone who has played the requisite number of hours of poker knows what a continuation bet is, but for those fellow degens who have yet to add this term to their poker vocabulary, a continuation bet is the bet made on the flop   …full article

• Transitioning from TAG to LAG play in tournaments

  Lagtard \ n. -ED, -ING, -S A poker player who calls and raises a large variety of hands with the intention of outplaying or outdrawing an opponent’s (usually) stronger hand
  Since I couldn’t find an official definition, I created one. Look out Merriam-Webster.
  The   …full article

• A beginners guide to sit and go tournament poker

  Sit and Go’s are a vital part of online poker. They are usually one table tournaments with anywhere between 5 and 10 players. To the experienced player SNG’s are a relatively quick way to build a bankroll. Many players have even made their fortune playing   …full article

• Quick additions to your tournament tool box

  If you’re a multi-table tournament player, there’s some good news for you: with just a few clicks of your mouse you can gain access to a ton of tools, mostly free, that can help transform your tournament game with just a little bit of time   …full article

• Surviving with a short stack in a tournament

  More often than we like, we all find ourselves short stacked in a tournament. The important thing is not to panic or tilt, but to adjust your strategy in order to survive and eventually get back into contention. The general consensus is that   …full article

• Two Situations in NL Tournament that Require Careful Consideration

  These are a couple of hands that cost me a stack in two tournaments because they are, in fact, very good holdings in most situations. The purpose of this article is to recognize when they aren’t and where things went wrong.
  1. We’re on   …full article

• Mastering the Freeroll

  The freeroll on online poker sites is a beast in and of itself. In some ways, it’s not even poker, in the strictest sense. It can be more like hitting the lottery (more so than winning the World Series of Poker’s main event).
  But in playing   …full article

• The lowest common denominator

  When a small-stakes poker pro gets the crap beat out of him during his ‘worst’ bad run to date there’s still a tendency to push the red levels of patience and tolerance of draws-not-getting-there to unimaginable distances in an attempt to weather the storm. But   …full article

• Using the reraise bluff in no limit holdem

  I’m sure everyone has seen an idiot or two in their poker career that will reraise you all in and then show jack high after you fold. In general, these people will never get far in tournaments because they tend to bluff too often   …full article