It’s been a while since I came to you with a Strategy in Action episode. There are many reasons for this, but first and foremost, I was taking my time putting together a more respectable [...]
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 [...]
I think I cracked the code, folks. I think I’ve reduced all of poker strategy to a single concept that, if adhered to, will turn any player into a long-term winner: Identify, embrace and learn [...]
She was sitting on a stack of $1500, and she would not stop raising or cold calling. It was the $1/$2 game at the Sands, versus one of the most aggressive opponents I had ever seen. She was 3 [...]
You know what feels good? Felting a player, watching them stand up, hearing their buddy ask, “Are you going to buy back in?” The felted player answers, “Yeah, but I’m going to a different [...]
Experience. They say there’s no substitute for it. They probably weren’t looking down at the butt-end of set-over-set. My first reaction was to snap a photo for my readers: My second [...]
Welcome to another episode of Strategy in Action. My trip to Vegas and its many revelations have been well-chronicled in the live blog I wrote while there and the podcast I recorded all about the [...]
The $2,300 felt alive in my hands. I counted it twice. Three times. Twenty-three crisp $100 bills. This was my poker bankroll to date, and it was way too small for what I was about to do: spend a [...]
Chippers, I kind of feel like online poker is an essential learning tool for live poker. Since the last episode, I’ve put in 1,000 hands online at .05/.10 NLHE 6-max and 9-max. Here’s what that [...]
Strategy in Action is a monthly feature recorded & written by a ‘recreational grinder’ who’s studying our training material in order to consistently beat $1/$2. Read the [...]
