A guide to three-betting
Once upon a time winning at poker was all about making aggressive raises – now it’s all about the re-raise… The game of no-limit Hold’em has ...
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Badbeats and angry donkeys
Variance can make you feel like someone’s got it in for you but tilting off money is not going to help This month has been an utter disaster. There, I’ve...
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Smashing the Jacks-hammer
Pocket Jacks are one of the most notoriously troublesome hands in hold’em, says Marc Goodwin SCENARIO ONE You’re playing in a $2/$5 no-limit hold’em ca...
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Dan Carter
British poker prodigy Dan Carter explains how he built a bankroll and went pro before turning 21! Since giving up his studies at 18 to take a shot at poker, Da...
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Shortstacking superstar
Short-stacking won’t make you popular but can win you big money I’ve previously outlined a very basic strategy for winning money in no-limit hold ’...
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How to kill Vegas
Vegas is awash with low stakes cash games and exploitable players who can be easily exploited If you gave me back the time I’d spent playing cash games in Vega...
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Misadventures with sets
Here’s why set-mining can often be a miscalculated move Set-mining describes a play in no-limit hold’em in which a player smooth-calls a pre-flop raise w...
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Tell-tale poker
You don’t need to ‘see’ a player to be able to read them. Sit-and-go star Jennifear says most online players are a mass of tells When playing...
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Creative differences
ABC poker will net you an ABC win rate, but learning to play hands ‘creatively’ could win you far more The reason that most poker books don’t go into playing h...
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Six appeal
Six-max cash games are all the rage right now, but you need to adapt to the aggression Let’s face it – nobody plays poker to fold hand after hand for hours on ...
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