Tony is a high limit specialist, rising in limits initially in Limit Hold'em, and now playing Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo full time. He currently writes on general theory, and is the host of his own forum in the ITH forums. To ask Tony a question, simply visit the Ask Pilchard forum and express your mind!
In this month’s article I am going to try and give some advice to beginning players, advice I wish I would have received before I started playing. Hopefully, those players who have been playing for at least 6 months will agree, on the whole, with the advice I am about to give.
In a break from talking tactics or strategy, I am going to write about the 5 hands that have marked my poker progression from a novice at the end of 2002 to the player I am today. The theme from this article is taken from my favourite poker post in 2005, a post written by Mike l. at 2+2 where he talks about his “5 ‘life changing’ sort of hands”. Although I would not describe any of the below hands as “life changing”, they definitely stand out as highlighting key moments in my development as a player.
In last month’s article I looked at some of the important decisions you should be making before a single card is dealt. This month I am going to look at some less obvious decisions, some important and some possibly not so, to see how they might impact on your win rate.
Some of the most important decisions you will make during a session are made at the outset, before a single card is dealt to you. In this month’s article I am going to look at those decisions and the thought processes you should go through when making them.
In a break from my series of articles on the secrets of limit hold’em success I want to talk about my week. It hasn’t been the greatest week ever in terms of my bankroll (not that weekly results matter in the grand scheme of things) but it has been a very important week in terms of my understanding of what gives me an edge over my opponents and it has also confirmed my beliefs on how you should approach your poker education.
In my first article I discussed the merits of single tabling. In this article I am going to look at what you can learn from playing shorthanded. This article is not going to talk about the required tactics and strategy needed to beat a shorthanded table (I will save that for another day). We are going to concentrate on the skills that you will learn from playing shorthanded and how they will help you when (or indeed if) you return to full tables.
In a series of articles, I hope to give some advice on how to improve your limit play. In this article, I am going to talk about the skills you can develop through just playing one table. In future articles I am going to look at what you can learn from playing shorthanded, the importance of game selection and the forgotten skill of seat selection and finally why you should distance yourself from your bankroll.
Tony Pillinger, better known as "Pilchard" in the poker Forum, contributes his first article on Hold'em poker. The article looks at some basic rules to follow when making decisions in Holdem Poker
Basic Rule (No:1)
There are only two ways to win a Holdem poker hand: a) You get all of your Hold'em poker opponents to fold; OR b) You end up with the best Holdem poker hand at a showdown.
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