Big daddy
Having a big stack in a tournament is one of poker’s great pleasures Ahhh, to be a big stack – the daddy of the table. The blinds are rising? Good, because I’m...
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Turbo strategy
Turbo sit-and-gos aren’t just crapshoots, if you play them well you can find consistent profit Overcommitting yourself by putting too much in is a horre...
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Dead man’s hands
Get the knowledge – beat the field The lesson is, greed is liable to get your fingers burnt How many ‘What happened next?’ type situat...
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Final push
As you enter the final stages of a full-handed sit&go, you should override the temptation to simply hit the money have discussed what I called the m...
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Size matters
There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to bet sizing in deep-stack online tournaments With so many deep-stack tournaments now available online, it’s...
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Heads-up tips
Top British poker pro Marc Goodwin gets to the bottom of some of the game’s trickiest concepts What’s the single most important thing to do when you&rsqu...
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Three’s a crowd
Getting down to three-handed play is an achievement, but to go further you must adopt a unique strategy In most poker tournaments the payout structures are ver...
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Continuation Betting
Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin on some of the game’s trickiest concepts: How and why should you continuation bet? What is a continuation bet? A continuation bet is a b...
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Hunter gatherer
Chip accumulation versus chip preservation – it’s the age-old argument. The question is, can you do both? When I first started playing tournaments, I played as...
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Monster flop
You’re the aggressor, you’re in position and you’ve flopped a monster against just one opponent TERMINOLOGY DOG – Abbreviated form of ‘underdog&rsq...
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