Health and Nutrition for Poker Players
It’s no secret that keeping your body in the best possible condition is necessary for your mind to operate at its peak performance. Yet, somehow, poker players have a terrible reputation for taking this into account. This guide is aimed at those who are looking to make some changes to their lifestyle but aren’t sure […]
How to Spot a Cheat in Live Poker
Nefarious Dealings There are plenty of extralegal ways a player can cadge himself an edge in a poker game. Some of these aren’t exactly cheating, like not declaring when you’ve seen a players hand by accident, faking a call with an empty hand to get a tell, or failing to keep your big chips out […]
Anything But Holdem: Top Eight Weird Poker Variants to Spice Your Poker Life Up
The WSOP dealers choice tournament offers roughly twenty poker variants which fall broadly into holdems (Texas, Omaha, O8) in no-, pot- and fixed- limit forms; limit seven card stud games (Hi-Lo 8 or better, Razz, 7 Stud), lowball draw games (A-5, 2-7, triple or single draw); and badugi variants (badugi, badeucy, badacey). That seems like […]
Fine Tuning the Autopilot
“Yeah….I just started auto-piloting and lost a bunch of money”. Common story. Student loses a bunch of money and claims that the reason for losses was “auto-pilot”. Mostly we get what he means – he means that he wasn’t really paying attention and some bad plays slipped through the net. But it also highlights a […]
60-Minute Master: NL 6-Max Part 8, Continuation Betting
Although continuation betting (c-betting or cbet) is a basic poker concept, it has evolved significantly over the time and there are numerous intermediate and advanced concepts that you need to be aware of in today’s games. C-betting is considered c-betting a basic concept in NL Hold’em, but it is nonetheless constantly evolving. It’s also common to […]
