by admin | Sep 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 Matthew Hilger | Sep 4, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
A Hand on the Final-Table Bubble at the World Series of Poker - Many players struggle to distinguish between the situations in which they should attempt to knock out an opponent and those in which they should merely try to accumulate more chips.
by admin | Sep 4, 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 Robert Paulson | Sep 4, 2020 | Poker Charts
Learn how professional poker player and best selling poker author Matthew Hilger plays his starting hands using our starting hand poker calculator!
by admin | Sep 4, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo
In this article, we will look at some of the most common characteristics that poor omaha players share.
by admin | Sep 4, 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 | Sep 3, 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 | Sep 3, 2020 | Poker Psychology
We begin the journey the first time we play poker.
by admin | Sep 3, 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 Matthew Hilger | Sep 3, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Take advantage of them I've been fortunate enough to cash in three of the last four main events at the World Series of Poker.
by admin | Sep 3, 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 Matthew Hilger | Sep 2, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
The Aussie Millions If there is one poker trip that every poker player should make, it is to the Aussie Millions, held in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.
by admin | Sep 2, 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 | Sep 2, 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 Matthew Hilger | Sep 2, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem, Short-Handed Texas Holdem
Breaking it down I recently played an interesting hand online during a shorthanded six-max limit hold'em game.
by Matthew Hilger | Sep 2, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Is the future here?
by Matthew Hilger | Sep 2, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Restealing is important I recently won the Full Tilt Poker $750,000-guaranteed event under the moniker "IonlyplayAA.
by Matthew Hilger | Sep 2, 2020 | Poker Tells, Poker Tournament Strategy
A hand from the World Series of Poker Event No.
by admin | Sep 2, 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 | Sep 1, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
A low SPR situation - Excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and The Short-Handed Workbook.
by Matthew Hilger | Sep 1, 2020 | Poker Theory, Poker Tournament Strategy
Most people know that all of the great Hold'em players play their opponents and not their own hands. Most players believe this is just a matter of sensing weakness in their opponent and then exploiting this weakness by stealing a pot.
by admin | Sep 1, 2020 | Poker Theory
You are dealt Ac Kc in early position and you raise your premium holding. Three players cold-call your raise, as do both the blinds.
by Matthew Hilger | Sep 1, 2020 | Poker Tips for Beginners
Matthew gives beginning poker players a few online poker tips - I receive lots of questions by email and in the Poker Forum from beginners asking for poker tips on getting started with with online poker.
by admin | Sep 1, 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 | Aug 31, 2020 | Poker Psychology
I’m running badly at the moment.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 31, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Preparing Darus Suharto - I had the pleasure of hosting an event to help Darus Suharto prepare for the World Series of Poker main event.
by admin | Aug 31, 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 | Aug 31, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 31, 2020 | Poker Theory, Poker Tournament Strategy
My last column looked at a couple of bluffs that I made during the World Series of Poker main event. One of them was successful and one of them cost me some chips.
by admin | Aug 31, 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 | Aug 30, 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 | Aug 30, 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 | Aug 30, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
For some reason, poker players love to debate the question of whether or not playing winning poker counts as gambling. Intuitively the answer is yes, but winning poker players often don’t see it that way.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 30, 2020 | Poker Odds & Expected Value, Poker Tournament Strategy
Eric “Rizen” Lynch provides a hand analysis - A few months ago, I wrote an article about how some players are misapplying expected value calculations.
by admin | Aug 26, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem, Short-Handed Texas Holdem
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.
by admin | Aug 22, 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 | Aug 22, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary, Poker Theory
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by admin | Aug 22, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 21, 2020 | Poker Theory, Poker Tournament Strategy
One of the great things I love about the World Series of Poker main event is the big stacks you get to play in relation to the blinds. When starting out with $10,000 in chips, you can find spots to make plays that would be difficult to make in other types of events in which you start out with a small amount of chips.
by admin | Aug 21, 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 | Aug 20, 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 | Aug 19, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 19, 2020 | Poker Theory
Tournament versus cash-game strategy Very few players succeed in both tournaments and cash games.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 19, 2020 | Poker Odds & Expected Value
Hand examples of applying odds and 'douts' when making drawing decisions A column I wrote a couple of months ago, titled "Outs vs Douts," generated a lot of discussion, as I received more e-mail than usual about the topic.
by admin | Aug 19, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 18, 2020 | Poker Odds & Expected Value
A limit hold’em example
by admin | Aug 18, 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 | Aug 18, 2020 | Bankroll Management, Pot Limit Omaha
Flameproof your bankroll - You write a poker book and everybody gets the wrong impression.
by admin | Aug 17, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Naked, weak-stab, and semibluff In my last column, I discussed the basics of floating in pot-limit Omaha (PLO) and identified the key indicators - the weak stab, the continuation-bet, and a possible steal bet - that a float may be in order.
by admin | Aug 16, 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 | Aug 15, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The bluff-raise Here are two hands that I played in heads-up post-flop confrontations against my buddy "TT" in my weekly 50¢-$1 ($100 minimum/$200 maximum) pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game on the electronic tables in the poker room at Excalibur in Las Vegas.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 15, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Players need more than the technical skill set to achieve success There are dozens of poker books on the market that are designed to teach the technical aspects of the game.
by admin | Aug 15, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 14, 2020 | Poker Theory
Am I delusional?
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 14, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
When and when not to do so Editor's note: This column is an excerpt from the, expanded edition of Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies for Full-Ring and Short-Handed Games. It includes a new chapter on playing multiway pots, as well as two new chapters for shorthanded games.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 14, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
There has been a lot of talk within the poker community about the future of the World Series of Poker. The central debate has focused on whether or not the main event is too big in terms of the number of entrants.
by admin | Aug 14, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 12, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
It depends on the player - I read an article recently that reconfirmed to me why playing the online Sunday major tournaments is such a good value.
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Bankroll Management
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by admin | Aug 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 11, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem, Short-Handed Texas Holdem
When browsing all of the available tables at online sites, one can see that shorthanded limit hold'em is quite a popular game. Why?
by admin | Aug 11, 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 | Aug 11, 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 Matthew Hilger | Aug 10, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Keys to success in today’s poker world - Today’s poker environment is much tougher than it used to be.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 10, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
When the flops keep missing - I recently returned from a nice two-week vacation to New Zealand.
by admin | Aug 10, 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 | Aug 10, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
Beware the Short Stack Much has been written on the impact of stack size in no-limit hold’em, including how to play both with and against a short stack.
by admin | Aug 9, 2020 | Omaha Hi-Lo, Poker Psychology
Perhaps the biggest reason why people lose money at poker is tilting. And perhaps the biggest reason for tilting is having unrealistic expectations.
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 9, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
Test Your Skills
by Matthew Hilger | Aug 9, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Remove all emotion from decisions, but …
