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Part I - A Two-Headed Monster
The Difference Between Tournament and Cash Poker
Tournament poker and cash games are like checkers and chess; they’re played on the same board, but the structure and strategy of each game are quite different.
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Part II - A Two-Headed Monster
The Difference Between Tournament and Cash Poker
"Should I fold my cards and wait for a better spot to put all my chips at risk? With only 50 poker players left to the money, do I have enough chips to survive the blinds and antes? How long until the blinds go up?"
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Poker Playing Strategy - Playing on the Bubble
After three long hours of playing poker, you find yourself down to the last two tables of a poker tournament that started with just under 200 players.
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Part I - Table Image
As a serious player, student or casual poker enthusiast, I’d be willing to bet you’ve come across some variation of the saying “play the man, not the cards.”
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Part II - Table Image
There are two main ways to use table image to your advantage at the poker table; either by making decisions based on another players’ perception of you, or making decisions based on your perception of your opponent.
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Patience With Drunken Poker Players
I’m sure you won’t have to go back very far in poker memory to remember the last time you were in the following situation.
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Poker Peeves
I have long been an impatient person by nature; those close to me will contest to that. Time is of the essence and I cannot stand when people waste mine.
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The Home Game
Across America and in countries all over the world, poker players unite on that one night a week to partake in one of history's greatest traditions: poker night.
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The Importance of Versatility
Many of the prominent poker books written back when smoking was the norm in card rooms and armed raids on home games were a considerable threat, urged their readers to become familiar with more than one game.
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The Semi Bluff
Contrary to popular belief, most winning poker players do not bluff as much as books, movies and the average Joe Schmo give them credit for.
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Bluffing in Poker - Advertising a Bluff
Poker is an extremely psychological game. At the poker table, you’re constantly watching your opponents, hoping to pick up signs that give away their hands.
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Slow Playing
The term slow-play, meaning to conceal the strength of a hand by checking and hoping to entice a bet behind you, has long been associated with the term sandbagging, which gives the word a negative connotation.
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Starting Hands In Early Position
One of the biggest mistakes I see made over and over again by beginning poker players is playing too many hands.
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Satellites
Turn on your television at any given time of the day (or night), and I’d be willing to bet you’ll find at least one (or more) poker shows dominating the airwaves.
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Playing Poker - The Role of Chip Leader
Nice! Your pocket aces just held up against another players pocket kings and you’ve doubled up. In fact, your new stack garners you chip leader status at the poker table! Wait.
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What To Do When You Have 10-15 Big Blinds In a Poker Tournament?
Some players get down to 12 big blinds (BB) in a tournament and start opening all-in preflop, thinking that they don’t have enough chips to properly play postflop.
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Extracting Large Profits From Low Buy-in N/L Cash Games
For the countless new players venturing out of their home games and into the to the world of brick and mortar casinos, the low buy-in No Limit Texas Hold’em tables can become surprisingly profitable.
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Bubble Play: Attack While Others Surrender
Congratulations you up and coming poker player! You have been playing well thus far. You are getting deeper and deeper into the tournament with every poker hand dealt and every player eliminated.
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Minimizing Poker Tells
One of the biggest weaknesses that new to intermediate poker players tend to have is obvious tells. A tell is some action or indication that you're either strong or weak, and mostly comes out in live poker.
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The Squeeze Play
One of the newest and most popular “plays” in poker these days is a maneuver called the squeeze play.
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Is Play Money Poker any Good?
In today’s highly competitive online poker world, an online poker room without a free play money feature is something no one would take seriously.
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