Your Thursday tip of the Day: Variance Battling variance throughout your poker career is always an uphill battle that you must overcome.  Everyone is aware the money variance that is involved in poker, but what about your skill variance in the games you play?  This applies to almost everyone in the poker community. What is [...]

Everyone wants to get into the deep game and win big.  Everyone also has their own way of playing pocket aces in this game.  Watching professionals play pocket aces in large cash games is a work of art.  They play the hand perfectly to their table image of that session which is the most important [...]

At the Dream Team Poker event, players get one last tournament to chance to win a little extra cash before leaving the WSOP.  I got to my table to see some of the top online professionals at my table.  Across the table, I see Jimmy “GabboBoy” Fricke, runner up at the Aussie Millions.  To my [...]

I was playing in a low stakes Full Tilt Poker sit and go the other day when I got myself into a situation when my poker strategy instincts were telling me that I was beat.  However, I ignored my instincts and proceeded to get myself into trouble, losing most of my stack and getting eliminated [...]

I’ve written about the no-point rule before, showing how it can be successfully applied in situations where there is a high danger of losing a lot of chips even though the player may have the best hand. Recently, I encountered a situation in which a player pushed her chips in when it would have been [...]

I don’t usually write about my experiences playing poker anymore, mostly because I don’t question my plays as often as I used to. However, just the other night I was playing $5/$10 at the Bellagio and a unique hand came up. My Hand: Kh 10h In this particular hand, there were 8 players and I [...]

The game of poker allows you to use a lot of strategies in order to defeat your opponents. You should use their weak points because this is the easiest way to beat them. If you are beginner poker player, you should learn more about the poker tells because they will give you a lot of [...]

By Rafe Furst of Full Tilt Poker While playing the last table of the $1,500 Pot-limit Texas Hold em game, I found myself in a mean point when we were down to 4-handed play. I was in the big blind and Rizen, a difficult, noble online tournament pro, was in the small blind. It was [...]

Getting moved to a different table while playing in a poker tournament is a common occurrence. However, it can be tricky for some players, as everyone has to adjust when someone gets moved, even the players already at the new table.  Poker is a game in which constant adjustments are required.  I’ll show you an [...]

Online poker, particularly Texas Holdem, has become a cultural stronghold all over the country and many parts of the world. With the help of the Internet and countless enterprising offshore poker sites, wagers are no longer being made by the seasoned poker pro, but rather people from all walks of life from the comfort of [...]