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by admin | Apr 27, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
To straddle or not to straddle on the button Editor's note: The following is from Jeff Hwang's book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play Vol.
by admin | Apr 27, 2020 | Poker Psychology, Poker Theory
Table chat is a long-standing and accepted part of poker, both online and in live card rooms. When playing online, the amount of chatter varies greatly from table to table.
by admin | Apr 26, 2020 | Poker Odds & Expected Value, Poker Tips for Beginners
Terry Wynn, aka Darvon from the Forum, takes a look at how Poker Tracker can improve your play
by admin | Apr 26, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Before I go....I promised some NFL advice that so many of you were anticipating.
by admin | Apr 25, 2020 | Poker Psychology, Poker Tells
Be careful! - This is an edited excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
When stacks are deep, the drawing hand has all of the power Editor's note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang's recently released book Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy.
by admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Raising preflop, the combo float, and value-betting the river It's a $1-$2 blinds game, $5 to bring in.
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | No Limit Holdem
After listening to Ed Miller speak at last year’s ITH convention, I made up my mind that I wanted to learn how to play no-limit cash games.
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Poker Tips for Beginners
At the time of this writing, England has just beaten Ecuador 1-0 in the soccer World Cup to progress to the quarterfinals. It was a scrappy game, in which England was on the better side but was unable to really put the game away.
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Online Poker Reviews, PartyPoker
Party Poker Sit and Gos [SnGs]Party Poker offers a large variety of SnGs to their players. Single table, Multi-table, Steps tournaments and their iconic HellKat games are all available to play with a variety of game types like Texas Hold'em, 7-Card Stud and Omaha.
by admin | Apr 23, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
An interesting, complex hand What follows is the first of what likely will be a series of pot-limit Omaha (PLO) practice-hand quizzes, similar to those found in my book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy.
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Anyway, something that really stood out to me was a subject that had nothing to do with actual trading: most of these rare extremely successful traders (including the ones who had families) were completely immersed in the world of the markets. A lot of them were into currencies or foreign markets and would often be in and out of bed during the middle of the night as they glued themselves to their monitors.
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
It depends largely on your opponent - What follows is an excerpt from Jeff’s books, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and The Short-Handed Workbook.
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
One of the most important things to keep in mind while playing an R&A tournament is that the first hour offers a very different style of play than just about any other possible Hold ‘em table. Typically, you’ll have a fair share of opponents playing a loose/super-aggressive style (LAGs).
by admin | Apr 22, 2020 | Poker Tips for Beginners
Some decisions, both game and non-game, are relatively easy to make while others are more difficult. Everyone makes bad decisions from time to time, but the key to being successful is to make as few as possible.
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The ambiguity of the bet - This is an edited excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
One of the most important things to keep in mind while playing an R&A tournament is that the first hour offers a very different style of play than just about any other possible Hold ‘em table. Typically, you’ll have a fair share of opponents playing a loose/super-aggressive style (LAGs).
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
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by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Poker Tips for Beginners
As I sift through the ITH forums, it seems there is a recurring theme, whereby beginning to intermediate players make play errors due to misunderstanding certain concepts. After a long time noticing this, I thought it was time to compile an explanation for some of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in poker.
by admin | Apr 21, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Floating with part made hand, part draw, and part air - A lot of times, you will find yourself floating with part made hand, part draw, and part air.
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Bankroll Management
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
To continuation-bet or not to continuation-bet - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
So you’ve mastered the basics. You understand the nature of the game, starting hand qualities, the importance of position, how high and low possibilities affect your pot odds, why a dry A2 is not the second coming…etc.
by admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Key Concepts - Last issue, I classified starting hands in pot-limit Omaha (PLO) by hand strength, breaking them down into premium, speculative, marginal, and trash (everything else) categories.
by admin | Apr 19, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem, Poker Theory
Now, onto some thoughts about the best ways to profit from these subpar players. What are the best ways to accomplish this?
by admin | Apr 19, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Pot-Limit Omaha Games Seven general guidelines Editor’s note: This column is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 19, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
Sometimes players say that Omaha hands “run close together in value”. Others disagree with that statement and claim that they do not.
by admin | Apr 19, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
In this article, we will look at some of the most common characteristics that poor omaha players share.
by admin | Apr 18, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Categorizing starting hands by playability Editor's note: What follows are edited excerpts from Jeff Hwang's book Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy.
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Big-blind-versus-small-blind play, small ball, floating, and the bluff-raise - What follows is a special preview from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play.
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
A strong pot-limit Omaha hand - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Pot-limit Omaha players are getting shortchanged - A few issues ago in my column on the bankroll schedule for pot-limit Omaha, I mentioned that while a typical buy-in for no-limit hold'em might be 100 big blinds, in order to be reasonably deep in pot-limit Omaha, you should buy in for more like 150 times the big blind.
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Floating from out of position Editor's note: The following is from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play.
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | Poker Psychology
We begin the journey the first time we play poker.
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
<Randomization is in the cards - What follows is an excerpt from Jeff’s books, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and The Short-Handed Workbook.
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | Bankroll Management, Poker Theory
Poker on the internet is in very many ways similar to live poker. It’s still poker after all and the rules, probabilities and everything else that really matters is the same.
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Three-betting after the flop without the nuts This is a hand from the early days of the now-raging $1-$2 blinds, $5 bring-in ($500 max buy-in) game at Harrah's in St.
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
What is the appeal of poker?
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Wrap, bare nut straight heads up It's a 50¢-$1 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game on the electronic poker tables at Excalibur in Las Vegas, and you are playing heads up.
by admin | Apr 15, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Staying within your bankroll - Note: This is an edited excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 14, 2020 | Poker Psychology
I’m running badly at the moment.
by admin | Apr 14, 2020 | Bankroll Management
So what is a good reason to stop playing? If you think back to your last twenty or so sessions, you have probably quit for all kinds of reasons.
by admin | Apr 14, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary, Poker Theory
At college I played on the football team. Now this isn’t exactly a bragging right in England where football is not nearly as big as it is over in the US, but nevertheless I loved the game and was fairly good at it.
by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Guidelines - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Small-stakes game officially born - On Wednesday, July 22, I walked into the poker room at The Venetian with a plan.
by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
We all have an idea of the archetypical bad limit hold’em player or ‘fish’ as they are often called. They are very loose, very passive, chase terrible draws, don’t value bet or protect their hand enough etc.
by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Playing with the initiative - It’s a $2-$5 pot-limit Omaha game, and you ($2,500) are dealt the A J 10 5 in the hijack seat.
by admin | Apr 12, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
To continuation-bet or not to continuation-bet - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The five biggest mistakes that average players make Editor's note: What follows is a special excerpt from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, tentatively titled Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play Vol.
by admin | Apr 11, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
A game of draws - The truth about pot-limit Omaha (PLO) is that about 99 percent of the game is played on the draw.
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The check-back range and the float - What follows is an excerpt from Jeff’s books, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and The Short-Handed Workbook.
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Slightly different parameters, but the same principle I spent a few days playing in Downtown Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker this year.
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Poker Odds & Expected Value
In most things in life, there is little danger in being optimistic. In fact studies have shown that optimists tend to be happier and more successful than pessimists.
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
The pot-limit Omaha revolution has begun Toward the end of October, I got a call from Lou White - vice chairman, co-founder, and former CEO of PokerTek, makers of the PokerPro electronic poker table.
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
Let me be honest with you. I am very hesitant to write this article.
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Poker Theory
I have spent a lot of time in these columns talking about bad beats, downswings and tilt, which are all related to luck, but sometimes it pays to take a step back and look at the more fundamental question. What exactly constitutes luck in poker?
by admin | Apr 7, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Its impact on post-flop hand valuations - This is an edited excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Apr 6, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
The possibility of becoming a professional poker player is an alluring one for most players. Let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to sit at home playing poker all day?
by admin | Apr 6, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
This article will not tell you what is wrong with your game; there are plenty of resources out there to help you with that. This article will suggest ways that you can assess how important leaks are and prioritise accordingly.
by admin | Apr 5, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The future of Las Vegas pot-limit Omaha - Last issue, I mentioned the 50¢-$1 ($100 minimum/$200 maximum) pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game I am hosting on PokerTek's electronic poker tables (PokerPro) in the fully automated poker room at Excalibur in Las Vegas.
by admin | Apr 4, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Back in the late 90’s, before he became sidetracked with writing songs about Michael Jackson, George Bush and vomit, Eminem released a catchy song entitled ‘Guilty Conscience’. It was a song about the two voices that talk to you, one ‘bad voice’ (played by Eminem) representing temptation to commit crime or do what is wrong and one ‘good voice’ (played by Dr Dre) representing logic, reason and morality.
by admin | Apr 3, 2020 | Bankroll Management
When I started learning about poker I was less than impressed that there was a section called “bankroll management”. I wanted to play poker, have fun and win.
by admin | Jan 16, 2016 | Americas Cardroom
High Five Tournament Series 2016 at Americas Cardroom (Jan 20 – 24)
by admin | Jan 26, 2013 | Online Poker Reviews
It is no secret. Omaha Poker, in both of it's High/Low and High-only formats, is expanding in internet poker rooms as a result of player demand.
