Poker Articles (Page 6)

Poker Articles

Bluffing is an important part of the game of Poker. Fooling other players into dropping out of a hand is a large part of it. Being able to identify when an opponent is bluffing is anoth...
The “three bet” is nothing more than making the third bet in the Limit version of the game Texas Hold’Em. Unlike the No Limit version, bets and raises are limited to three per betting i...
During almost every Texas Hold’Em session, each Poker player will face this dilemma: Should the river be bet when in position for value? The upside is a bigger pot if the opponent calls...
Beginning Poker player often make the mistake of thinking that the object of the game is to win hands or pots, when in fact the object is to win chips—aka “money.” It doesn’t matter how...
More than any other game, Poker is about identifying patterns of behaviour. And any Poker player who has spent time trying to read opponents and put them on a range of hands knows one t...
One of the hottest new topics among Texas Hold’Em Poker players is a concept called “Stack to Pot Ratio” or SPR. It was pioneered by author Ed Miller in his 2007 book entitled “Professi...
The phrase “pot committed” is used to describe two very different Poker situations which result in the same outcome. The first situation occurs when a player has “too much to lose”—i.e....
Of all the positions around the table when playing Texas Hold’Em, the Small Blind is the worst spot to be. It must commit funds to the pot before any cards are seen; it is the penultima...
Poker can be a very slow-moving game, mainly because hands worth playing are so infrequent. Much of the time spent at the Poker table is time spent waiting for cards worth calling or ra...
In Poker, the practice known as “blind stealing” refers to winning both of the blinds by making a raise that causes opponents to fold before the flop. It is most commonly applied as a f...
One of the keys to consistent Poker winnings is the effective management of a “bankroll”—the total amount of money a player has available to risk on wagers during a given session of pla...
Many Poker players subscribe to the theory that if a hand is good enough to play, it is also good enough to raise. Another popular belief is that calling a raise requires an especially ...