The herd mentality in casino poker is strong and reveals itself particularly noticeably in both bet sizes and betting lines. At $1/2 I doubt most players could tell you why their standard open is [...]
Maybe Christian Soto’s right. Light em on fire: Poker books put players in a box. Once the player is in this box, it is really hard to break them out. Poker is a fluid game. Game flow dynamics, [...]
One of my favorite pair of RCP videos is Doug Hull’s couplet: “How an Unstudied Player Thinks.” which you can find here and here. They feature someone who has played poker for a long time, [...]
Poker can seem like an immensely complex game given the large number of variables that need to be considered in every situation. But if we create a plan, or at least a framework for considering [...]
Every year at Red Chip we get multiple inquiries about where to play cash games and tournaments and a host of other questions concerning the poker summer in Las Vegas. We’ve published [...]
Hollywood has given many the impression that expert poker players make their fortunes by correctly interpreting a pulsing neck-vein, or by peering like vampires into the souls of their victims [...]
When you’re sitting at the table, it can be easy to drift from your standard preflop ranges out of inattention, boredom, or inaccuracy. And if you’re new to the concept of open [...]
One of the most important events in my poker career occurred at the tail end of the 1990s. A regular in my weekly home game invited me to play in another game that had, to me, a novel twist. The [...]
This is the first in a series of articles about playing low-limit NLHE. My reference point will be $1/2 in Las Vegas since that is the game I play the most, but the majority of the content will [...]
It’s been a while since I came to you with a Strategy in Action episode. There are many reasons for this, but first and foremost, I was taking my time putting together a more respectable [...]
(As told by Princess Anagramatica of Asalgave) Many years ago in the village of Evans Hill in the slightly unfashionable region of Essenteen lived Sirch the bookkeeper. Sirch enjoyed his work [...]
In this early Twilight Zone episode convict James Corry runs toward the rocket ship bringing his supplies. The year is 2046. Corry has been sentenced to a solitary life on an asteroid nine [...]
