Stop Torching Your Equity At The Poker Table April 4, 2025 One of the most common mistakes players make is automatically betting all their draws on the turn. When you’re playing a low SPR (Stack-to-Pot Ratio) scenario, like tournaments and even 100BB cash-games, betting a big draw can sometimes hurt you more than help. Even with a hand as strong as the nut flush draw, you
Small Ball Poker Is Killing Your Equity March 28, 2025 As “small-ball poker” has taken over, pioneered by a few elite players and later reinforced by poker-solver solutions, the trickle-down effect has in fact hurt many recreational players, encouraging even more passivity in spots where they were already playing too tight. Take open-shoving ranges for example. Most players understand they can profitably shove hands like
Two Thoughts That Will Get You WRECKED In Poker Tournaments March 21, 2025 Navigating the psychological minefield that is poker tournaments is often as relevant to the end result as the cards themselves, if not even more so. In particular, there are two lines of thinking that have claimed many a victim and set countless equity curves and chip stacks on fire. Let’s take a look at what
The $200,000 Invite-Only Poker Tournament March 14, 2025 Triton Poker recently hosted a unique poker tournament that caught my attention as a poker fan. Although it’s not the first time we’ve seen this type of tournament, it’s one that doesn’t happen often and has some fascinating dynamics. The Triton Invitational is a $200,000 invite-only poker tournament with a $20 million prize pool that
Train Your Poker Mind Like A Discipline Machine March 7, 2025 The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst. – David Goggins If you’re a naturally disciplined person, this article isn’t for you. For the rest of us—the ones who know the right move at the poker table but still click call when we should fold, the
3 Strategies To Crush Fish At The Poker Table February 28, 2025 If you’re going to make money at poker, you’ll have to maximize your returns against your weakest opponents – aka the “fish.” Because while it’s true that in this day and age you have to be able to hold your own against the regulars too, unless you’re playing far below your limits, that’s not going
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