Poker Strategy
In the Poker Strategy category we have all posts relating to the strategy of playing the wonderful game of poker.
Dive into the Poker Strategy archives.
- What Separates You From The Pros Besides A Bankroll?
An amazing video from the Monte Carlo event. The hand is Phil Ivey vs. Paul Jackson heads-up. Flop comes JJ7 two clubs. Ivey with Q8s, Jackson with 56o.
Ivey bets $80,000
Jackson raises to $170,000
Ivey re-raises to $320,000
Jackson comes over the top for $470,000
Ivey pushes Jackson off the pot pushing [...]
- Wake the Kids and Neighbors
HDouble has broken his long silence and posted Learning to Beat the Game. Stop whatever you’re doing and go read it!!
Photo borrowed from Flickr user cosmopolitan
- Expect nothing from a hand. Play each street based on the information at hand.
Here is my post in response to my previous challenge.
You’ve been folding every hand for the last three orbits. You’re getting ready to play any two paint cards from any position just to kill the boredom. You peek at the first card as it’s dealt to you and it’s and ace. [...]
- High Variance Poker vs. Low Variance Poker
I was commenting on something over on the Full Tilt message boards the other day and I started me thinking about the concept of variance. First off, wild, loose, aggressive games are beatable. Almost by definition, if you play an optimal strategy you can win. In fact, because your opponents are making [...]
- The Ultimate Secret to Winning Poker
I’m going to let everyone in on the biggest secret in poker; there is no secret! You can quit looking for that special book, video, website, etc. that’s going to turn your game around and make you into the next Phil Hellmuth Ivey.
Poker books are like self-help books. Only a small [...]
- How Good of a Poker Player Are You?
I caught a very interesting article that was intended to be about business/career goals but I think it applies just as easily to how we advance as poker players. It fits in with what I said the other day about goals and being unable to achieve a goal unless you first set it. [...]
- Stages of Development
I ran across a few interesting links that I thought I would throw out there without much commentary. I’m mostly doing the sans impression thing because I’m still absorbing some of this and don’t have much to say at the moment.
The first is somewhat similar to one of my favorite HDouble posts [...]
- Thinking About Recipe for Poker Success
On my recent trip to Madrid I thought it would be a good idea to print out several hundred pages of 2+2 and blog posts. Some were oldies but goodies and others were of the newer variety but all in all it was a collection of some of my favorites. One post, in [...]
- Bad Beat Remedy
Last night I was playing $100 Buy-In NL at Hawaiian Gardens and in just a few hours had built up a nice little castle of yellow chips. Then I got bad beat in one of those hands you aren’t supposed to lose. Flopped a set and had my full house by the turn [...]
