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Keeping A Cool head While Playing Poker - A day of poker can be seen as a long, drawn out battle. In that battle are many short confrontations that set the tone for future battles. After all the smaller battles have been completed, someone will be broke and going home.
Agression in Omaha Poker - Omaha is a game in which rags turn to riches and riches turn to rags as each community card appears. Draws dominate the action in Omaha, and because of this, understanding what you are holding is of the utmost importance. Unless you have the stone cold nuts, you rarely want to see any type of connected card hit the board for fear that you have just been outdrawn.
Lowering your main event buy-in - The strategy for single table satellites and double shootouts is relatively simple. You have to win all the chips to win anything, so that should be all you worry about. If somebody pushes in for more chips than you have, but you have positive expectation to make the call, you should do it. Since the ultimate goal is to beat the table, there is no reason to turn down an opportunity where you have the advantage.
Loosen Up Preflop - While many pros advocate playing a tight, aggressive game and the importance of choosing “premium” starting hands, I find that there are many newer players who take this advice too far and simply don’t play enough hands. I recently talked with a newer pro who told me he was playing less than 10 percent of his hands pre-flop. This just isn’t enough
Fifth Street In Seven Stud - While most players these days specialize in No-Limit Hold’em, I know there are many people out there who grew up learning Seven-Card Stud. With the resurgence of HORSE and other mixed games, now is a great time to branch out and revisit some of the basics to help make you a better all-around player.
Running Bad Part 2 - Obviously, I was on a very bad losing streak, but it wasn’t due to bad beats. I just kept getting my money in bad; every time I had Queens, my opponent would have Aces - every time I had AQ, they would have AK. That’s just how it goes sometimes, but getting your money in badly doesn’t always mean that you’ve done something wrong.
There's No I In Poker - While most players will never have the opportunity to try and take down a big name pro or make “fancy” poker moves in front of a TV camera, far too many people still let their egos get in the way of playing solid poker. Once that happens, they lose sight of their long-term goals and start playing for purposes other than winning.
Controlling the Pot - Let's say you're holding pocket Aces and the flop comes 9-8-7 with a flush draw on the board. Chances are that you're ahead, but a canny opponent can easily put you in a tough spot by check-raising your continuation bet.
Omaha Hi Lo Strategys - If you get quartered in Limit games, you may not lose too much of your overall chip stack because the action is capped on every street. In Pot-Limit games, however, getting quartered can be much more expensive because you may have had to call big bets on both the turn and river before the hand ended
Tilt Controll - When you become indifferent to winning or losing over the short term, you won't have to worry about going on tilt because you're focusing simply on playing good poker. That's all that matters at the end of the day - playing well. As poker players, we can do nothing more than to play our best game and let the cards fall as they may
Six Handed Sit N goes - For really fast-paced excitement, however, I play six-handed turbo SNGs where I'm facing both short tables and quick blinds. The structure of these SNGs forces me to play each hand more carefully as the combination of fast blinds and short-handed play means one mistake can be crippling or even fatal.
Mixing it Up - For beginning players, reading poker books and strategy articles provide a great foundation for learning the basics of the game. These materials teach the importance of strong starting hands, position, and aggression. But, as Phil Ivey recently pointed out, relying too much on other's people advice can actually stunt the growth of your game.
Running Bad - The same holds true when you're talking about running badly at the poker table. You may not be able to identify what's going wrong, but you know its happening. As far as I'm concerned, there's no single definition or criteria for "running bad" because it means something different to everyone
Bluffing in Pot-Limit Omaha - Bluffing can be one of the most profitable plays in poker. However, its success is often blunted by the fact that it's also one of the most misunderstood and over-used plays in the game.
Suited Connectors and Small Pocket Pairs - While it is true that these hands can sometimes take down monster pots, the fact is, playing these kinds of marginal hands can often lead many players - especially newer ones - into a big trap. They start playing suited connectors and small pocket pairs much too frequently and, eventually, find themselves in situations where they're forced to make tough decisions for lots of chips.
Implied odds Part 2 - In my last tip, I discussed the basic principles of implied odds. As you'll recall, your implied odds are the total amount you can win in a given pot, divided by the number of chips you're putting into the pot. Put another way, implied odds calculate future action and betting that may occur in a hand, while pot odds focus on the here and now of the hand.
Implied Odds - Most people have a pretty good understanding of pot odds - whether the amount of chips in the pot justifies making a call - but they fail to realize that making this calculation only solves part of the poker equation. Often, these players forget to think about how the rest of the hand is going to play out if they make a call, and fail to factor that information into their calculations. That's where implied odds come into effect.
KnockOut Bounty Tournaments - A lot of players will forget this and risk way too much as they try go after bounties. You have to be wary of these players and adjust your game accordingly. You will often have to tighten up as your opponents are willing to play a wider range of hands in pursuit of Knockout Bounties. While everyone else is pushing with a wider variety of hands, you need to play smart and remember not to stray too far from your normal game plan.
Establishing a Tight Table Image - While establishing a loose, aggressive image early on can help build your initial chip stack, I believe it's important to develop a tight table image in the later stages of a tournament because it gives you the ability to maneuver at the times when the chips matter most.
Getting Paid on a Monster Poker Hand - One of the most profitable situations in poker is one in which you've flopped a monster and someone else is betting into you. It's an incredible feeling but, alas, one of the rarest occurrences in the game.
Being A Poker Bully - Many players understand the concepts involved in building a large chip stack during a tournament. What they don’t understand, however, is how to use their chips effectively once they’ve gotten them. Once they’ve accumulated a lot of chips, many players want to control the action, but they haven’t thought through how to take command of the table.
Pot Limit Omaha Strategy - In Hold 'em, your two cards represent one of 169 possible hands. In Omaha, where you must use two of your four starting cards to make your hand, you're essentially being dealt six different Hold 'em hands. But don't let the seemingly endless hand combinations frighten you away from Pot-Limit Omaha because it’s one of the most entertaining forms of poker you can play
Preflop Raising Strategy - To limp or not to limp − that is the question. I'm not going to name any names here, but there are some big-time pros who will argue that it's OK to limp into a pot before the flop. They reason that the more flops they see, the more likely they are to hit something big. If not, well, then they're pros and they can outplay their opponents after the flop.
Playing From The Blinds In Tournaments - Part 2 - Throughout a tournament, everyone develops a table image that impacts how people play against them. Depending on your opponent’s style of play − and how your opponent perceives you − you might be able to play back at someone who is trying to steal your blinds from late position
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