In this article we will talk about a very important concept: knowing when your outplaying someone. This involves honest , critical self analysis which is never a easy thing. It seems like a simple straightforward concept but as you will see it is very easy to delude yourself into thinking you are outplaying someone when in reality you are not. A Common Situation For example say your in the sb and you have 10bb but your only jamming 5% of your hands . Is your opponent making a mistake when he calls with Q8o? Are you outplaying him here? The answer is the same answer for almost every question about poker,  it depends. He's making a bad call vs your range but if he has no way of knowing this,  he's not making a mistake. Due to incomplete information there [More...]

In my video series, TPE Theory: Exploiting Tendencies, I spoke about how you can take advantage of your opponents when you have reads on them.  In this article I will show you some subtle things your opponent does that can provide a lot of insight into how they play and form those reads . Picking up subtle clues and making educated assumptions regarding what they can mean is a essential part of being a MTT player. Especially since you are often only playing 1-2 hours with a person before one of you gets moved or busted. You have to be able to get reads quickly and extrapolate ideas about their game from small amounts of information. Here are some of the most common and helpful things to look for. Open limping in the late stages : When you see your [More...]

  This isn't going to be an article telling you specifically what amount of buying you need before you take a shot. I don't know enough about kelly criterion and besides that the subject has been covered a million times already (including RonFezBuddy's article MTT Bankroll Management Guidelines and Game Selection Tips) . I will instead make the focus of the article about what skill set you need to compete at different levels and how to acquire that skill set. I'll start with what it takes to make the move from low to mid stakes (by mid stakes I mean 20-50 rebuys, 200$ freezeouts and majors).   The Fundamentals of Mid Stakes To move from low to mid stakes your going to need a strong understanding of the fundamentals. A strong understanding of the fundamentals will generally get you a pretty good [More...]

The proper use of information is a 3 step process and how well you manage this process will be a HUGE determining factor in how successful you are at poker. The difference between the best players in the world and the good (but not great) players is that the best players do these 3 steps better than anyone else…it’s that important! All good players understand what a typical range should be in a vast majority of spots but it’s the great players who find creative ways to deviate from the standard and use the proper amount of deviation (not too much and not too little) to exploit the most value out of their opponents. So here’s how u do it. First, you must identify and find the information.  Second, you must process and understand what this information means. And finally, [More...]