Make sure to think outside the box. It’s not enough to simply memorize how to play certain hands, it’s important to understand why the hand should be played that way. Poker is a beautiful game with so many variables, you can’t play it with a defined set of rules as you would in blackjack. Don’t [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: creativity, learning, Negreanu
I believe the single most important decision in any form of poker is game selection; determining which cards to enter a hand with runs a close second.
Lou Krieger – in Lou Krieger Online
Categories: Poker Strategy
When the game is passive and many pots are being played five-, six-, or seven-handed for the price of the big blind, overlimping often handicaps you. It forces you to play primarily “make a hand” poker, and therefore it deprives you of many of your potential edges. Try raising instead.
Ed Miller – 08/2008
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: aggressivity, Miller
If you think that a caller is weak, you can always try the effect of firing a second bullet. Fearless players will even fire a third bullet on the river. I’m not a big fan of firing multiple bullets with nothing. My experience has been that after the first bullet misses, players fire the second [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: aggressivity, Zolotow
Reraising with 7-4 or Q-5, which you see quite a bit now, was unheard of in 2003. It just wasn’t done – by anybody. No matter how good of a poker player you were, you just didn’t do it. It seems like it’s common practice today.
Chris Moneymaker – 11/2008 – in CardPlayer
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: aggressivity, evolution, loose players, Moneymaker