Ace King: Call Or 3Bet Preflop?
Ace King is simple to play when it folds to you preflop: just raise. But AK becomes so much trickier when someone else raises before you. Should you call their raise? Should you 3bet? Should you [...]
Poker Downswings: The Final Mental-Game Frontier
Poker players could learn a lot from casinos. One can make a case that the only reason poker is a profitable game for skilled players is that downswings happen. You may regard them as somewhere [...]
Ace King: Optimizing When You Hit
We like looking down at Ace King, but there’s often the underlying feeling of dread that decisions are about to get tricky. It’s true, Ace King is arguably poker’s most complex [...]
Evaluating Three Bet Opportunities
In my previous article, I offered a theoretical analysis of factors to consider when you have the opportunity to re-raise, or three-bet, an opponent before the flop in no-limit hold ’em [...]
