Best Poker Tips

Recently I played an interesting hand at a fairly small tournament. There were about seventy players, only a few of them were any good. It was a timid table with players limping all the time and playing mediocre hands. The blinds were 50/100 at the second level, with chip stacks starting at 5000.
I picked up […]

Some players sit down at the table looking for a good laugh and a bit of playing, and drink a beer in the proces. However if you’re serious about the game, then don’t you make the same mistake. Drinking will seriously affect your judgement so stay far from it (unless you’re an experienced pro of […]

Just a short tip today. Actually it’s quite simple. When you’re playing and things don’t seem to be going so well, just take some time off before you start tilting. When you’re on tilt you will only give your money away and that certainly can’t be why you sat down. So whenever you feel the […]

The maniac can sometimes difficult to handle because you never know what he is going to do and playing back at him is certainly not the trick, unless you absolutely know what you’re doing. When you start playing back by re-raising you’re just allowing yourself into his area of expertise, playing with crap hands, and you […]

Because I get asked a lot about the best way to play tight aggressive, I thought it’s time for a nice tip on how to…
Let me first explain the words ‘tight’ and ’aggressive’.

Tight means that you are very selective in choosing your starting hands. You play only premium hands like AA, KK etc.
Then there’s aggressive. Aggressive […]

There’s a big difference between cash- and tournamentplay, I suppose you know that by now. But exactly what is it that makes the difference? Allow me to let you in on some of the secrets.
First of all you need to understand the difference of the value of chips. In a cashgame you need to slowly […]

You remember how I’ve been stressing to play tight in the early stages of a Sit & Go match?
Well, the other day I was playing a fairly small, single table, NL tournament. In the early stages everybody had some 1500 in chips, as did I, and the blinds were 20/40. I picked up pocket Aces […]

Bluffing is the art of making other players believe you have a better hand than you really have. If used correctly bluffing can help you enhance your profits from poker and win big. Here are ten tips to help you bluff successfully.
Tip 1: Bluff when “someone” might have made a good hand. An example is […]

In the early stages of a tournament you should be keeping it tight. You know that by now.
In this tip I would like to go a little deeper into why it is so important to start loosening up after players get eliminated. There are several reasons, some mathmatic and other more player orientated:
- First of all […]

‘On the bubble’ is a tricky spot to be in.
Basically it means that, in any tournament, if you get eliminated ‘on the bubble’, you are the last person to be eliminated without making any money. Everybody from then on gets some money.
So what does that do to your playing style? Since you don’t want to […]