$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
The Art Of Not Hero-Calling November 29, 2024 We’ve all been there, the pain of knowing you had your opponent against the ropes, just about to hand you all their chips and then the river brings the backdoor flush that also puts 4-to-a-straight on the board and they instajam their chips into the middle. You immediately know—somehow, in a way that’s probably aggravating
Satellite Winner Advice November 22, 2024 Destination poker vacation season is upon us, with ACR Poker hosting two satellites to the Punta del Este series in Uruguay this November, each guaranteeing 7 packages worth $8,000 each. As a four-time satellite package winner—once right at the beginning of my poker career some twenty years ago that brought me to Las Vegas for
Send This To Your Non-Poker-Playing Partner November 15, 2024 Dear love of mine, To the deepest depths of my soul, I am a poker player. Poker is not just a game for me, it is the lens through which I view life. Every action at the table reflects things much more profound—patience, self-improvement, and resilience. It’s the desire to succeed greatly while accepting that
3 Poker Lessons From A Non-Poker Book November 8, 2024 If you’ve been struggling to stay motivated and consistent with your poker study, I have a book that might help. In the book Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf, a young man is being trained in archery by a wise master named Akira. Through the experience, the young archer learns valuable lessons that have
The Lazy Man’s Approach To Learning Poker Solvers November 1, 2024 There’s a lot of reasons why poker-solver work wouldn’t be a good fit for certain players. Learning disabilities, ADHD, bad memory, physical issues keeping them from spending long hours at the computer. Older players overwhelmed by the technology, younger players without enough time alongside school, work, and family obligations, players whose entire joy for the
Friendly Advice For Micro PLO Cash Games October 25, 2024 I’ll admit I haven’t studied much PLO in my life, but enough to hold my own in the softer side of games. That’s exactly where I found myself over the past couple of weeks, playing some microstake PLO cash games. A friend had asked me for strategy advice for them and, having been away from
Poker Is Harder Than The Stock Market October 18, 2024 There’s a viral article making its rounds around the poker world that outlines all the ways playing poker is similar to stock market investing. And while it’s certainly true that both share key attributes such as the need for risk-management and being a zero-sum game, the discussion misses a key factor that makes poker playing