Dealing with Preflop 4bets

It’s become the fashion to adopt 3bet-heavy strategies. Many regs have no cold-calling range from the SB, and some of the newer generation regs are now also playing 3bet-only in CO/MP. We are not here to comment on the effectiveness of these strategies, simply to underscore that 3betting is more common than ever before in […]

Frying Fish Faster

We’d all love to think of ourselves as the best reg at our respective limits. Perhaps we are working on our game every day, progressing closer to such a goal. It’s important however, to retain a healthy idea regarding where our winrate actually comes from. Losing sight of this important concept can easily destroy our […]

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 […]

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 […]

60-Minute Master: PLO Part 10, Blockers

When there are ‘obvious’ draws on the community card board in PLO – and you have the key cards required to complete them – there is the potential for a profitable bluffing opportunity. However, the loose and wild nature of online Omaha games can make this a potentially dangerous strategy. Here we look at the […]

60-Minute Master: NL 6-Max Part 6, Common Preflop Leaks

Preflop is widely known as the easiest street to play in Hold’em. However, many players mistakenly assume that preflop decisions are super trivial, which is definitely not the case. This can lead to various preflop mistakes, some of which I’ll discuss below. PLAYING BY CHARTS Beginners use starting hand charts to help build a solid foundation. […]

Bankroll Management and Taking Shots

In most regular jobs, workers follow a set of instructions passed down to them from management. They don’t concern themselves whether those instructions are in the best interest of the overall business. The worker still gets paid; it’s the business that will suffer if the management is making bad decisions. The difference with poker players […]

Player Profiling and Tracking

Knowing our opponent is crucial in No Limit Hold’em. We perhaps face so many opponents on a regular basis that it can be difficult to keep track of them all along with their tendencies. An efficient approach can go a long way toward solving this problem. There is very little decent material on the topic, […]

When to use the Combo Bluff

The combo bluff (bet turn + river after the flop gets checked around) is a very powerful move it can generate you 1bb per hand, according to the data gathered by our database analyst, Alan Jackson. Of course, this is not a move you can use 100% of the time (wouldn’t be bad if you use, […]

60-Minute Master: NL 6-Max Part 7, Common Postflop Situations

If you’ve assessed your hand and measured it against the flop, here is how to proceed – be it a made hand or a drawing hand, or a strong or marginal holding. We have seen in this chapter how a flop can affect your hand and potentially improve your opponent’s. And once you have assessed […]