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
Where’s My Edge At The Poker Table? October 11, 2024 Where’s my edge? A simple question we know we should be able to answer with high specificity, but probably can’t. At least not without putting some serious thought into it, because it’s something most of us have never been asked. Where’s my edge? How can I be sure I am better than my opponents? What
NFL Legend Says This Is The Secret To (Poker) Success October 4, 2024 “Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.” – Bill Belichick When it comes to poker, everyone enters the game with a bit of talent, even if they barely know the rules of the game. Sometimes it comes from experience in other 1v1 strategy games, such as chess, while other times it comes from a
The Dumbest Path to Poker Enlightenment September 27, 2024 I promise I mean no offense by what I’m about to say, but your brain is sort of an idiot. Observing what it does objectively, it’s easy to see that our minds are far from perfect. They are wildly susceptible to emotion, can be influenced by the slightest shift in perspective, and if history has
Riding The Poker Heater – 3 Tips For When You’re Running Good September 20, 2024 Search the internet and you’ll find endless articles about what to do when you’re running bad in poker, but what about the opposite? What about when you’re on one of those rare heaters where the stars are aligned and everything seems to be going right? It might not happen often, but when it does, we’d
This Is A Smart Place For A Bluff – And Other Poker Thoughts That Will Get You Killed September 13, 2024 The poker brain is a double-edged sword. It’s smart enough to have you pulling off an epic triple-barrel bluff but equally likely to give you advice that will set your bankroll on fire. Thanks to the way we’re wired, poker is never just about the cards we’re dealt, but about the ability to analyze and