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Here’s a fundamental truth of poker. You win the most chips when you get the most out of your value hands. Seems simple, right? Well, you might be surprised just how often you could be leaving chips on the table. Have you ever been holding the nuts and decided to just put in a small value bet just because you’re desperate for a call? Sure, it may be easier to hero call a ½ pot or less bet on the river when you’re holding the top pair. But what about the times when they WOULD

They get smarter by the day. They never tire, never bore, never tilt, and always make the best game theory optimal (GTO) play—so long as they’re programmed properly. Poker bots aren’t a new phenomenon in the online poker world, but as artificial intelligence (AI) and poker-specific software like HUD trackers and solvers become more sophisticated, they become more and more of a menace. Photo: dunkhunter There are two types of people who use bots. First, there’s the sore losers

Have you ever felt like you had a confident read on an opponent, risked it all on a big bluff, and only realized after it’s too late that they were holding the literal nuts? It’s not a great feeling, but these bad beats are the stuff that poker dreams are made of—if you’re on the other side of the table! In a recent VLOG from PokerfaceAsh, she gets to experience the pain first-hand of making this move. And to make it even worse, it happens on the very first hand of the sessio

“Of course I lied. It’s poker.” Antanas Guoga, better known by his nickname Tony G, is one of poker’s most memorable personalities. The now-famous quote above comes from a session of The Big Game where he tricked Phil Hellmuth into going all-in and responded to Hellmuth’s outrage by stating the obvious: poker is a game of deceit. With total live earnings pushing $9m USD, a best live cash of $1,196,000, and dozens of money finishes at the WSOP and WPT despite never taking home

Multi-table tournaments (MTT) may be one of the most challenging forms of poker out there. Not only do you need to maintain your focus and edge for several hours or even multiple days, but you have to get a little lucky to get the cards you need to take the whole thing home. Luck aside, there are some reasons that you might not be finishing where you want—whether that means taking the whole thing down or making the final table. Here are our top 4 mistakes to look out for at y