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by admin | Jan 23, 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 | Jan 23, 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 | Jan 23, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Float equity Editor's note: The following is a special preview from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play Vol.
by admin | Jan 23, 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 | Jan 23, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Playing top two pair, and the nut-flush draw - Here are a couple of hands from a $2-$5 game at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
by admin | Jan 22, 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 | Jan 22, 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 | Jan 22, 2020 | Bankroll Management
It is not a comfortable thought, but every poker player might one day have to deal with the possibility of losing their entire bankroll. There are a number of ways that this might happen, but essentially it will boil down to one of the following:
by admin | Jan 22, 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 | Jan 21, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary, Poker Theory
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by admin | Jan 21, 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 | Jan 20, 2020 | Bankroll Management
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by admin | Jan 20, 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 | Jan 19, 2020 | No Limit Holdem, Poker Tournament Strategy
Turbos have taken off lately due to their reputation as a quick and exciting way to play tournament poker. In this two-part article, I’ll explain how to adapt your game as you move through the blind levels of a Turbo SNG.
by admin | Jan 19, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
What do you get in return for your call?
by admin | Jan 19, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
On the 5th of May 2006 I left my cosy office job for the last time, in order to throw my hat into the ring as a professional poker player. Long-time members of the ITH forums may remember my plea for last minute advice before I finally took the plunge.
by admin | Jan 19, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
I play a lot of heads-up limit hold’em. In fact, it probably accounts for about 30% of the hands that I play on a day-to-day basis.
by admin | Jan 19, 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 | Jan 18, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Pot-Limit Omaha: FloatingThe key to advanced play Editor's note: The following is a special preview from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, tentatively titled Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Volume II: Advanced Play.
by admin | Jan 18, 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 | Jan 18, 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 | Jan 18, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
Let me be honest with you. I am very hesitant to write this article.
by admin | Jan 18, 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 | Jan 18, 2020 | Bankroll Management
Statistically speaking even if you are a very good poker player, with a huge bankroll, there is a chance that you will eventually run so bad that you will go broke. Unfortunately we can’t eliminate that probability completely but we can reduce it.
by admin | Jan 17, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Before I go....I promised some NFL advice that so many of you were anticipating.
by admin | Jan 17, 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 | Jan 16, 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 | Jan 16, 2020 | Bankroll Management
The only way to make money at poker is through your opponents’ mistakes. Consequently if you make fewer mistakes than your opponents then you will make money in the long term.
by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
What is the appeal of poker?
by admin | Jan 15, 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 | Jan 15, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
When I first started to play internet poker, I headed for the texas holdem tables. One day, while distracted, I accidentally joined a single table Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo tournament.
by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Poker Theory
Every player at some point has the experience of playing with a maniac. Nothing changes a poker game quite as much as a loose aggressive player sitting down and taking charge of the game.
by admin | Jan 14, 2020 | Poker Theory
“Your upswing was obviously pure luck (variance) and the downswing was obviously mostly caused by terrible play... at least that's the opinion I've been reading in other threads around here.
by admin | Jan 13, 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 | Jan 12, 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 | Jan 12, 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 | Jan 11, 2020 | Poker Psychology
While many players will tell you that they never go on tilt, this is rarely (if ever) true. What they probably mean is they never notice they are going on tilt and/or they don’t tilt very badly.
by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Everybody likes to think that they are ‘logical’, but in poker as well as every day life, many people show weakness in this area.
by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Poker Tips for Beginners
Sometime in the 90s, I enrolled as a computer science student at a certain Canadian university. The first year was tough enough.
by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Playing with the initiative, making a combination-call, and value-betting the river - It's a five-handed 50¢-$1 pot-limit Omaha game online (six-max).
by admin | Jan 11, 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 | Jan 11, 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 | Jan 11, 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 | Jan 11, 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 | Jan 10, 2020 | Poker Psychology
I’m running badly at the moment.
by admin | Jan 10, 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 | Jan 10, 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 | Jan 10, 2020 | Poker Psychology, Poker Tips for Beginners
Across different poker games, there is one thing that can be counted on: there will be players going on tilt. One often hears hold’em players complaining about losing large pots on the river (“oh man, another suckout, I can’t believe this”).
by admin | Jan 10, 2020 | Poker Psychology
We begin the journey the first time we play poker.
by admin | Jan 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 | Jan 7, 2020 | Bankroll Management, Pot Limit Omaha
Flameproof your bankroll - You write a poker book and everybody gets the wrong impression.
by admin | Jan 7, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Big Straight Draws - Before I discuss shorthanded play in a future column, I should first write a bit about big straight draws and the top drawing-hand structures used to flop them.
by admin | Jan 6, 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 | Jan 5, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
It’s crucial to the game’s growth “You can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once.
by admin | Jan 5, 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 5, 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 | Jan 5, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Regulating opponents’ behavior - What follows is a special preview from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play
by admin | Jan 4, 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 | Jan 4, 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 | Jan 4, 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 | Jan 2, 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 | Jan 1, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Playing from the Mississippi straddle, bottom set, value-betting the river - Preflop: It’s a $5-$5-$10 game with a Mississippi straddle.
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.
