Dozens of Red Chippers turned out to the Mirage poker room on June 9, 2017 for our third annual Red Chip Poker meetup, enjoying a day of schmoozing, swag, and most importantly, poker. Each year [...]
You can have a lot of fun watching poker pros on Twitch. There are crazy moves, life-changing pots and all kinds of excitement. However, you should not focus solely on the fun part. Casino [...]
The fast-fold poker concept was first introduced by Full Tilt and its Rush format. They offered an exciting new option for the game – you can just fold your hand as soon as it is dealt, and move [...]
Poker is a game of relative strength. We are not trying to make the strongest hand possible, we are trying to beat the other players that are in the pot at showdown. When I see players get [...]
Game Theory Optimal poker is a non-adaptive, perfect poker style. No one knows what it is exactly. Exploitative poker ignores this and takes advantage of error (opening up to being exploited [...]
The universe conspired to make my last session a clinic on game selection. I arrived at Rivers Casino determined to redeem myself after losing nearly three buy-ins, or about a third of my [...]
The vast majority of my students are retirees or will soon retire. As their poker prowess grows, they comment that people at the table “misunderestimate” them, and give them credit [...]
We train in poker so that we can make the right decisions. Many of us dedicate a huge amount of off-table time to this game. It reminds me of a cheesy 90’s motivational poster of a wrestler [...]
Any poker book can give you a fairly simple pre-flop strategy that will be basically correct. On the other end, the river can be solved exactly with a variety of game theory optimal solvers. The [...]
In a recent session with my student Shiner, one of his opponents started to exhibit a betting pattern. I picked up on it, and decided on an adjustment. Shiner missed it initially. Can you find [...]
