All Articles By Christian Soto (AKA Chin)

Ever think about hands in the shower? I’m not talking about bad beats. I’m referring to thoughts concerning your line work on certain board textures out of position against multiple opponents. Maybe what your double barrel range [...]

Poker books suck. The statement may be hypocritical, given I took part in writing one of the too many poker books out there. However, I choose to stand by my opening statement. Why would I say this however? In fact, I’m partnered with Ed [...]

When I first started playing, I would never have envisioned a situation where people tuned in to watch me play online poker. To be frank, when I first started I was terrible, so you wouldn’t have enjoyed the show regardless. I’m not proclaiming [...]

Limping gets a bad wrap. Limping just isn’t cool anymore. The act of limping isn’t as sexy as Three-Betting and running elaborate multi-street bluffs. Therefore, through the years, limping lost its swagger. Well, I’m here to debunk the myth of [...]

For years, my poker experience centered on rounding an array of underground games within the New York City/New Jersey area. Even though today I go to Parx Casino (PA) and Borgata in Atlantic City more regularly, I still play twice a week in a [...]

Nine players of same technical skill set play each other endlessly; who wins? Well, besides the rake of course, the player who can avoid tilt wins. It is astonishing how tilt and the mental game of poker has taken a back burner for this long. [...]

When the old school players ruled the game, they preached discipline. Discipline to not overplay hands and not pile in chips with any Ace on an Ace-high board. Today, as I return from a poker excursion with my crew of poker friends, I find the [...]

If you play live poker, you’ll notice that most winning players play similarly. They reside in a safe cocoon and avoid other regulars while feeding off the weak. Three-bet ranges are nearly always strong-side weighted towards QQ+/AK. These [...]

“Don’t C-bet unless you have a double barrel plan.” I heard this once. Honestly, I am not entirely sure where but it is undoubtedly a great piece of advice, and today I have chosen to forward it you guys. In poker you want to be thinking ahead [...]

Coming from an online background, I am taken aback by these comments. Three, Four, and Five-bets are common place with AK on the virtual felt but it seems we have entered an alternate universe called live no limit. Over time however, I learned [...]