One of the earliest potential sources of confusion for poker beginners is hand selection. In No Limit Hold’em in particular, it can be easy for a hand to look a lot stronger or weaker than it really is depending on the situation, and the dangers of making mistakes in hand selection are amplified… Read more »
I recently played a session of 5-500 spread limit poker against a lineup that is typical of modern small- to mid-stakes big-bet games. (Structurally speaking, spread-limit poker is not “big bet” poker, but the stacks were short enough that being prevented from making a single bet or raise bigger than $500 made little practical… Read more »
I’ve been spending a lot of coaching time recently working with HoldemResources Calculator, and guiding my students through a variety of preflop scenarios designed to give an accurate perspective on the ways in which we can adapt to our opponents’ tendencies throughout an MTT, particularly when it comes to preflop opening ranges. I’ve observed… Read more »
If you play anything more than a tiny amount of online poker, you should be using either Holdem Manager 2 or PokerTracker 4 to track your play, save your hand histories and review your performance. Thats pretty much the bottom line – you’re giving up an incredible amount of EV if you’re not doing… Read more »
Introduction News flash: In order to win a poker tournament, you have to win all the chips. You cannot consistently win more than your fair share of chips if you don’t play aggressively and you cannot maintain maximum aggression if you rarely have a big stack. This all seems like common sense, but… Read more »
For years now, the word out on the street in the poker industry has been that winning players are heavily responsible for the decreased number of “weekend warriors” finding their way to the game. Poker operators (especially within the online realm) have employed a number of tactics to curb what they define as… Read more »
In a famous passage in “Super System”, Doyle Brunson writes: “That has always been the key to no-limit play as far as I’m concerned. I want to put my opponent to a decision for all his chips. For example, if a guy’s got twenty thousand chips and you lead-off for six or seven thousand…… Read more »
One of the most common topics that often comes up early in my discussions with new students – sometimes even in initial conversations before they actually become students – is continuation betting. People want to know how often they should be c-betting, which boards are good for c-betting, what the ‘right’ c-betting percentage… Read more »
Six years ago today I was sitting in the exact same office I am sitting in now, working on Tournament Poker Edge projects just as I am now and, possibly, drinking cold beer just like I am now. There was, however, one big difference; Tournament Poker Edge had exactly ZERO members. We were… Read more »
A question I get asked frequently in coaching sessions revolves around preflop raise sizing and the various options we have available to us in MTTs. It’s usually some variation of “how big should I raise preflop ‘as standard’?” or “how big should I usually raise preflop?”, and it carries with it a few assumptions… Read more »
Copyright © 2026 Online Gaming Edge, LLC.