Crushing the Flop with SPR
If you’re ready to crush your opponents by outplaying them on the flop, you’re going to need a working knowledge of poker fundamentals. One of these is an incredibly important metric known as stack-to-pot ratio, or SPR. By figuring out our SPR and our opponent’s SPR, we can make better decisions and decide just how committed we are to the pot. Basically, as the name implies, SPR tells us how large our stack is compared to the pot: SPR=stack/pot. For instance, if there’s 50 ch
Why You Should Care About Bet-Sizing
It’s time to get in the action. You’ve decided that you’re going to put in a raise, either for value or as a bluff, and you’re carefully measuring out the amount of chips that you’re going to fire into the pot. How do you decide how many chips to bet? There are a lot of factors that go into this decision, and, in truth, it’s one of the most important considerations that we make as poker players. We always want to extract maximum value from our bets, so finding the right bet-s
Setting Poker Goals
It’s that time of year again: 2019 is just around the corner, which means many of us are reflecting back on 2018 and thinking ahead to the new year. For poker players, this is a great opportunity to look back on how we improved, to identify our shortcomings, and to set some poker goals for 2019. Setting goals is a vital part of your mental game if you truly want to become a great player. The best players are constantly setting and assessing their goals because they continuall
