All About Tells
Understanding tells is crucial to becoming a winning poker player. While there’s no replacement for math and study, you can definitely up your win percentage by using tells to your advantage. A tell is a physical or verbal cue that gives off information about the hand. A basic example would be smiling when the flop hits your hand. Even small things like scratching your head, looking at your chips, and commenting on the hand can give off valuable information. Poker is a game o
Are You Pot Committed?
There sometimes comes a point when you and the pot go from ‘just talking’ to ‘I guess it’s time to put a ring on it.’ Ok—maybe games of poker don’t play out in quite the same way, but you should still know that there may come a point where you just can’t get away from the pot. It’s called pot commitment. Basically, if you’re pot committed, then it means that folding is never the right play. Though you may not necessarily shove all your chips into the middle, you will be force
Play a Tighter Range
Looking for a way to immediately improve your poker win percentage? Start by folding more often. Playing a tighter preflop range is one of the easiest adjustments that you can make to play better poker. The truth is that most of us play far too many hands. We want to get in the action, play the game, and put into practice the moves that we’ve been studying. However, this often leads to playing marginal hands—or worse. Especially when out of position, we need to be even more c
Inducing Bluffs from Loose-Aggressive Players
If there’s one thing we know about loose-aggressive players (aka maniacs), it’s that they love to get in there, battle, and throw their chips around. In other words, they love bluffing. They just can’t help themselves from staying in the action. One of the best ways that we can profit off this imbalance is by inducing bluffs. Since our range is so much stronger than your average maniac, we want to make a hand then nudge them in the right direction. We want to trap them. Basic
