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Have you ever heard the claim that the late stages of poker tournaments are not “real poker” because these contests become “shove-fests”? It is a fairly common complaint, [...]

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 [...]

If you have played any poker at all, or even just watched some on television or stream, you will have doubtless been offered some advice. Sometimes these alleged nuggets of wisdom are clearly not [...]

The amount of information available to help you play winning poker has exploded in recent years. For an inexperienced player, the sheer volume of hand charts, conventions on sizing bets, and even [...]

The late Mike Sexton introduced the popular World Poker Tour television show with the following words: “The name of the game is no-limit Texas hold’em; the game that takes a minute to learn, but [...]

The GTO Ranges App by Red Chip Poker constitutes the end-point of the most ambitious and extensive GTO research project we have ever conducted. It is also very much an ongoing project. Not only [...]

WSOP 2022: LAS VEGAS POKER TOURNAMENT GUIDE The most famous poker series in the world returns to Las Vegas this summer, with the 53rd World Series of Poker kicking off on May 31st and extending [...]

THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER RETURNS Note: You can find our guide to the 2022 World Series of Poker through this link. For the last few years, we have published an annual guide to the WSOP in Las [...]

My preferred method of working with MTT students is to begin with a hand history from a recent tournament in which they went deep. This allows me to identify their most obvious leaks, which in [...]

How you survive downswings as a poker player is central to your long-term profitability. In fact, if downswings really crush your spirit and cause you to tilt, you may not have a future as a [...]