For those of us who got their start in poker at the online tables, the transition to live poker can be a difficult one. Not only do we have to worry about simple things like counting the size of the pot, paying attention to stack sizes, and keeping an eye out for the tournament… Read more »
Posts By: theginger45
Static and Dynamic Board Textures in Poker
Skim through any poker literature from the last ten years and you’ll probably hear the words ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ more than you would expect. The reason for this is, of course, that these terms have become commonplace in describing board textures (more specifically, flop textures) in No Limit Hold’em, to the point where people… Read more »
Constructing Preflop Ranges in Poker
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 »
Are You Over-Compensating For Something?
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 »
Finding Leaks Using Your Poker Database
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 »
Why Everyone is C-Betting Too Much
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 »
Preflop Raise Sizing: How Big is Too Big?
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 »
Making Notes on your Opponents in Online Poker
One thing in online poker that gets talked about often but rarely discussed at length, is the practice of making notes on your opponents. Everyone is aware that it’s something they should be doing, but how many of us really take the time to think about the processes we put in place for it?… Read more »
Maximally and Minimally Exploitative Play
These days it’s hard to get involved in any high-level poker strategy discussion without someone needing to frame the discussion in terms of whether we’re talking about Game-Theoretically Optimal or ‘GTO’ play, or its alternate, commonly referred to as exploitative play. You would be forgiven for perhaps doing what many people do, and assuming… Read more »
Utilizing Blockers Effectively in Poker
In the past year or two, there’s been an evolution in poker theory. Where previous logic would have dictated that the highest-EV hands for us to have in a given situation are simply the ones that are the strongest in terms of raw equity or have the highest degree of showdown value, there’s a… Read more »