The year: 1855. The place: an opulent riverboat heading up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis. It’s a couple of hours before sunrise and you’ve been playing draw poker all [...]
Our thoughts as the coronavirus transitions to a pandemic and heavily impacts the poker scene worldwide. Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Zac Shaw Quick updates for you as COVID-19 continues to grip [...]
In terms of uniqueness, Los Angeles poker takes the cake. Partly this reflects simple economics. The value of a dollar in L.A. is different than in, say, Las Vegas. The one life reality that all [...]
Towards the beginning of the online poker boom, my main game was $25/$50 Limit Hold’em on a European site that is now nothing more than a footnote in poker history. The platform was [...]
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we attempt to summarize the current legal status of online poker in the United States. You may be surprised to learn that, despite a confusing legal [...]
Continuation betting bluffs is one of the first things players learn about postflop strategy. Read any poker book and the simplified advice essentially boils down to “raise preflop and if you get [...]
(Editor’s note: PRO/CORE subscribers may wish to review the CORE lessons on expected value (EV) and equity before proceeding.) In order to best understand realization, we first need to take [...]
Greetings again Red Chippers. My article, and it’s companion video below, are about a tournament hand. No, Red Chip isn’t going to change it’s focus to tournament play. But this hand was very [...]
Poker is all about exploits. Your goal is to find leaks in your opponent’s strategy, figure out how to best take advantage of those leaks, and then implement plays to exploit their [...]
