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by admin | Jan 20, 2020 | Bankroll Management
Zoom in Zoom out....I recently tried out that Google earth thing.
by Matthew Hilger | Jan 20, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
A disappointing tournament The 2008 World Series of Poker was extremely disappointing for me.
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 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 | 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 18, 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 | 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 18, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
Playing the Nuts Most players love to discuss hands when the value of a hand is not very clear.
by Matthew Hilger | Jan 17, 2020 | Poker Psychology
Why do poker players go on tilt? It's not an easy question to answer .
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 16, 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 | 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 Bill Liming | Jan 16, 2020 | Poker Psychology, Poker Tells
Troy Headrick, aka BernardDogs in the Forum, gives some tips in how to avoid online habits that are not conducive to live play When I ran Cross-Country in High School, our coach would video tape us as we ran so that we could then view the tape and critique our form.
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 14, 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 admin | Jan 14, 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 14, 2020 | Poker Theory
Tournament versus cash-game strategy Very few players succeed in both tournaments and cash games.
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 12, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Resources aplenty Do you remember when you started playing poker and read your first poker book?
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 12, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Sometimes consider it as part of your arsenal - My moniker at a couple of online sites is “IonlyPlayAA.
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 12, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
This article was written soon after the birth of my first son, Joshua, back in January of 2004. I guess my estimate of the WSOP reaching 5000 entrants was off by about 20 years!
by admin | Jan 12, 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 | Jan 12, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
The betting machine - 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 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 11, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Examples of when not to do so
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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 11, 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 | 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 | Pot Limit Omaha
An introduction As I kick off the "On the Draw" column, I suppose I should introduce myself and tell you what this column is about.
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 9, 2020 | Pot Limit Omaha
Floating back at a floater Occasionally, when you bet from late position, a player who suspects a steal may try to float you from out of position by calling your bet and then betting out on the turn.
by Matthew Hilger | Jan 9, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
'The River Rule' I have a rule on the river that I follow religiously, which I appropriately call "The River Rule": Never try to make a good laydown on the river in limit hold'em.
by admin | Jan 9, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
When I first started out online, I deposited $50, played for a while and lost it. A few months later, did the same thing.
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Limit Texas Holdem
Before talking about the merits of single tabling, I should give you a brief history of my playing career. I started playing internet poker three years ago after watching it on TV.
by admin | Jan 8, 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 | Jan 8, 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 7, 2020 | Poker Theory
Improving your game - People write to me all the time, telling me their poker history, which inevitably ends up with the same question: “What can I do to improve my game?
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 7, 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 Matthew Hilger | Jan 6, 2020 | Poker Tournament Strategy
Evaluating some close decisions
by Matthew Hilger | Jan 6, 2020 | General Concepts & Commentary
Is the future here?
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.
