Squeeze Plays
One poker play that you should have in your pre-flop arsenal is the squeeze play. They’re a great way to collect dead chips and exploit players with a tendency to overcall with weak ranges . Let’s say the player in the cutoff open bets 10 chips and the button and small blinds both call. It comes around to you on the big blind, and you put in a big 3 bet of 70 chips. Since these players often call openers with marginal to junky hands, they’ll often fold to your bet. Congrat
Ethical Poker: How to Play with Integrity at the Poker Table
This week, we’re going to take a step back from poker strategy and go over another topic that touches our poker lives. Let’s talk about playing ethical poker. Figuring out what’s right and what’s wrong is never universal, rarely easy, and, in a game like poker, full of grey areas . What’s wrong for one player may be totally fine for another. For any of these ethical questions, either in poker or in life, you should carefully consider where you stand and do your best to do go
When to Fold Top Pair
Pairs are the most common made hand in poker, and top pair is often good enough to win the pot. However, there are still plenty of hands...
Bankroll Management
Making good decisions is what sets winning poker players apart from the losers. If you can consistently find the right line and then...
How to Limp Re-Raise
Even though we have some default ‘rules’ for playing good poker, like not limping and not slow-playing big hands , there are always...
Ace-King Pre-Flop
Once the cards are dealt, you take a peek and see ace-king looking back at you. You know that you’re going to play this pot, but did you...
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...
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...
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...
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.
