I’ve always enjoyed picking apart hands and it’s something that I have done regularly with my students. Sometimes the most effective part of a lesson starts with: I had a hand that [...]
Avid poker player and all time greatest swimmer Michael Phelps has a lot to teach about the power of mindset. In his book No Limits: The Will to Succeed he explains how his coach Bob Bowman would [...]
With all of this conversation about GTO poker amongst players, it seems like exploitative poker has gone the way of the dinosaur. Who even cares about exploitative play when we have GTO solvers [...]
“Balance is important in poker!” “If you don’t balance your ranges the good players will take advantage of you!” “Always use one bet-sizing for your entire range to avoid giving out info.” We’ve [...]
There are many differences between live and online poker. Online poker offers the ability to play a ton of hands in a very small amount of time. Live poker offers you physical information for [...]
A couple of years ago we published a well-received two-part series aimed at Magic: The Gathering players interested in making the transition to poker. This was motivated, at least in part, by the [...]
Most of my poker success is based on doing what Ed Miller has told me to do. One piece of advice from several of his books never really made sense to me: “Betting patterns come in and out [...]
I would suggest that the use of the word “opening” in chess and poker is more than a semantic coincidence. In both instances a solid opening sets up later advantage. Many successful chess players [...]
Ace King is simple to play when it folds to you preflop: just raise. But AK becomes so much trickier when someone else raises before you. Should you call their raise? Should you 3bet? Should you [...]
Poker players could learn a lot from casinos. One can make a case that the only reason poker is a profitable game for skilled players is that downswings happen. You may regard them as somewhere [...]
