Poker Articles

Here is a list of our published poker articles.

Why'd He Call That? What the Heck are Pot Odds?
This has happened to every player who has ever played competitive poker for any amount of time. You have a great hand, not just because of..

Dual Deception: The Hole Cards of Seven Card Stud
Seven card stud is a great poker game that is particularly popular on the East Coast of the United States. While its appearance can be..

How to Spot a Bluffer - Poker Article
Bluffing in poker is an art, plain and simple. A successful bluffer can walk away a winner at the end of the night far more often than the..

How to Play AK - Poker Article on how to play Ace-King starting hand.
One of the most difficult hands to play in Texas Hold‘Em is AK. While a strong hand, it requires the consideration of many more..

Tips to Better Poker Playing (Beyond the Basics)
Semi-recently, "professional poker games" were televised, including brief pre-commercial briefings on how to play the game. Texas Hold-em..

Lowball Poker - Poker Article
What would you think about playing a game of poker where the low hand wins, and straights and flushes don’t even count? Lowball..

The Sanding Method of Marking Cards
A popular method of card cheating is known as sanding. As might be expected from the name, the primary tool used by those who cheat at..

Poker Alice - Poker Queen of the Wild West
Alice Ivers Duffield was better known for most of her life as Poker Alice. By the time she became known as Poker Alice, she was living in..

Poker Strategy - Playing on the Bubble
After three long hours of playing poker, you find yourself down to the last two tables of a poker tournament that started with just under..

The Squeeze Play
One of the newest and most popular plays in poker these days is a maneuver called the squeeze play. The "squeeze" was made famous by Dan..

Minimizing Poker Tells
One of the biggest weaknesses that new to intermediate poker players tend to have is obvious tells. A tell is some action or indication..

Poker Gripes, Flawed Thinking, and Overused Phrases
With the proliferation of poker in the past few years so many untruths, superstitions and repetition of just plain frustrating phrases have..

Stop And Go Tournament Strategy
Back before Greg Raymer was the World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, he was a lowly part-time internet player like so many today. One..

What To Do When You Have 10-15 Big Blinds In a Tournament?
Some players get down to 12 big blinds (BB) in a tournament and start opening all-in preflop, thinking that they don't have enough chips to..

Counting & Calculating Outs
Poker class is in session. If you’ll all find your seats and take out your notebook it’s time for today’s lesson: counting and..

Patience With Drunks
Be patient and selective when playing poker against drunk opponents.

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