Poker Articles

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 [...]

Whether you’ve never heard of Big O, heard stories about the unmatched action, huge games in the Pacific Northwest and California, or maybe you’ve seen the large amounts of Big O games running at [...]

This month’s hand history actually comes from a few years ago. I told someone about the hand this week and they thought it was really instructional, so I moved it to the front of the list. [...]

One of the most common questions we get from Vegas rookies at the Red Chip Poker forums is “where should I play poker?” We gave a detailed answer to this question in our WSOP Guide, but that, of [...]

The biggest mistake players make in knockout tournaments is failing to understand the value of the bounty. Learning to quantify the true value of each bounty can give you a significant edge over [...]