Inducing Bluffs
Welcome back! I’ve finally made good on my promise to offer Free Poker Video Training. Make sure you sign up before you go.I’m all about getting maximum value from my hands but it’s hard to get paid off when your opponent doesn’t flop anything. Let’s say, for example, that you limp in middle position with [...]
How To Get More Value From Your Hands
Poker isn’t about the cards you get. It’s about what you do with the cards you get. All players will get the same distribution of cards over time. Winners maximize their profits when they get good cards and minimize their losses when they get bad cards. Here are some tips to get more value from [...]
Defending Against the Cbet
The c-bet is the most powerful bluff in poker. Your opponent shows strength by raising pre-flop, and then they continue to show strength by betting ½ to 2/3 of the pot on the flop. Your opponents will c-bet anywhere between 80 to 100% of the time, but they’ll usually only hit about 30% of the [...]
Combinatorial Analysis
The ability to put your opponent on a range of hands is one of the most important skills in poker. Hand reading has nothing to do with reading your opponent’s “soul” and everything to do with pattern recognition and combinatorial analysis.
Pattern recognition is identifying which hands make sense given the villain’s line. Most experienced players [...]
Nash Equilibrium and SAGE
There are two pieces of paper that sit next to me when I play poker. They’re old, crumbled, covered in grease stains and dotted with bitter tear stains from past bad beats. These tattered pieces of paper are the Nash Push/Call charts and I’d never play a Sit ‘N Go without them.
Most SNG players know [...]
