Archive for Poker School

Win at Poker with Winners.com

There is a new poker brand in town and it has the online poker world talking. Winner.com has been launched and growing with a strong following locally and internationally. With the sizzling hot Winner Casino and Winner Poker already gaining in popularity amongst online players, and the Winner Bingo platform about to go live, Winner.com [...]

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When to Fold in Limit Texas Hold’em

Decent players have a good understanding about when to fold preflop. You want to play premium hands preflop. In terms of marginal hands, you want to play suited connectors/small pairs more when it is a multi-way pot and less so when it is about three people seeing the flop. For big cards such as AJ [...]

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Poker Strategy – Choose your game carefully

Game selection is a critical skill at poker. I have spoken and mentioned this factor a couple of times, if not to find your poker game then perhaps learn other poker games to master improve the other. In today’s post im referring to ‘game selection’ as in choosing which games or tournaments to play. You [...]

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1st hand and out…full house vs. runner runner four of a kind!!!

In a frantic game of online tournament poker, i ran into some trouble early on against a marginal weak hand. This is how it panned out! 9 Handed Table – Deep Stack 40 000 Pre-Flop SB- 100 folds BG- 200 folds 3rd- calls 200 4th- Hero raises to 1600 with pocket kings 5th- folds 6th- [...]

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Protecting your blinds – The key to winning poker?

Protecting your blinds – The key to winning poker? There are many players who lay down their hands to blind stealers or on the other hand don’t steal enough blinds to be competitive. There are a few strategies to employ when making a bid to be more competitive at the the poker table. Identify the [...]

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The fundamental theorem of poker, introduced by David Sklansky, states that: every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponent's cards, you gain, and every time your opponent plays his cards differently from the way he would play them if he could see your cards, you gain. This theorem is the foundation for many poker strategy topics. For example, bluffing and slow-playing are examples of using deception to induce your opponents to play differently than they would if they could see your cards. There are some exceptions to the fundamental theorem in certain multi-way pot situations, as described in Morton's theorem. In this section we will analyse the mental aspect of playing poker...when, how, why and bluff.