How To Stay Sharp in Extended Heads-up Matches October 23, 2025 Combine mental discipline, strategic adaptation, and self-care to remain sharp at the tables Extended heads-up matches test not only your technical skill but also your focus and emotional control. Staying sharp in these long battles requires more than knowing optimal ranges—it’s about maintaining mental endurance and adapting as the dynamics shift. The ability to stay
How To Hero-Call Like A King February 21, 2025 If you’ve never thought about why you hero-call in the spots that you do, it might be helpful to spend a few moments reflecting on it now. In the moment there can be a lot of factors at play. For example, am I tilting? Am I being intuitive? Is my mind picking up on something
The Best Spot To Add Overbetting To Your Poker Game February 14, 2025 If you’ve been following the poker strategy landscape, or watched much high stakes poker, you likely know about the hottest trend that’s swept the poker world over the past couple of years: overbetting. An overbet—which refers to a bet that’s larger than the size of the pot—has been the weapon of choice for professional players
Three Questions To Ask Yourself Before Firing The First Bullet February 7, 2025 One of the first pieces of advice I give when coaching recreational poker players is to ask more questions. Too often when we’re starting out in poker, or have been playing for a while but haven’t spent time thinking about the game at a meaningful level, we take actions on default. This lack of analysis
A NLH Player’s Guide To Short Deck Poker January 17, 2025 Although I’ll forever be a 52-card poker player at heart, it’s always fun to take on the challenge of learning a new poker variant. That’s why I recently decided to take a break from my usual grind to hop into the Short Deck Poker (SDP) streets for the very first time. And while I am
Basketball Pizza-Party Poker Advice January 10, 2025 At a recent pizza party for my son’s basketball team, my wife happened to mention to a couple of fellow dads that I had played poker professionally back when we first met. It’s something that I don’t bring up often because, in the right crowd, it has a way of dominating the conversation as it
3 Signs You’re Playing Poker Against A Sucker (And How to Exploit Them) December 27, 2024 Matt Damon kicks off Rounders, perhaps the greatest poker movie ever made, with an iconic opening line that holds a deep lesson for every aspiring poker professional: Here’s the thing — if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker. If Matt Damon is right
$10 Mistakes That Are Costing You THOUSANDS At The Poker Table December 27, 2024 One of the wisest pieces of poker advice I ever received was “the $1,000 mistake will hurt you, but the $10 mistake will kill you.” The implication being that it’s the small, repeated errors that will silently chip away at your win rate and keep you from ever truly succeeding in the game. After all,
Stop Bluffing Like This To Increase Your Poker Winrate December 27, 2024 We’ve all been there: maybe you got sucked out on by a fish with a gutshot, or maybe the table nit called down your bluff in a spot they really shouldn’t have. Whatever the reason, you immediately feel the surge of anger, frustration, and aggression begin to well up inside you. That’s when you look
How To Be A (Good) Poker Loser December 20, 2024 I recently heard Phil Ivey say something that caught my ear. Speaking on the Joey Ingram Podcast, Ivey said that not everyone is going to win in poker, and that’s ok. Although we know this logically since poker is a zero sum game—for every winner there has to be a loser (or many losers if
3 Poker Lessons From Daniel Negreanu (& Phil Ivey) December 13, 2024 I recently heard Daniel Negreanu offering advice to beginning poker players and it was so insightful I felt compelled to share it with you. In the interview, conducted back in his original poker stomping grounds of Ontario, Canada, Daniel reflected on his early days and first-ever trips to Las Vegas—where he quickly realized he was
4 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Looking For Poker Staking December 6, 2024 Staking has become an increasingly popular topic in the poker world over the past decade, with many poker sites implementing it as a feature directly into their platform, allowing players to buy or sell small pieces of their action. And while the online version is a fun way to dip your toe into staking, the