I wrote a post long ago about starting hands to play in No Limit Hold’em,
No limit Hold’Em; another beginners strategy. Part 1: Preflop hand selection. It was as simple as I could make it, and gave basic guidelines for a beginner.
Once you get a feel for playing those hands, there are more hands that are [...]
This is a hand history from someone who has read my blog and was interested in the poker school post. He had already signed up with Full Tilt so he wasn’t eligible to sign up so that I could get credit, but I said that if he wanted to send me a hand history for [...]
Or wa/wb for short. What are the characteristics of when this principle applies?
We have raised preflop
We get called by one player
We have position on that player; he’s called from the blinds or limp/called
On the flop we have a hand, but not a monster
The flop is not drawy
This seems pretty limited in its use with all [...]
Pot Limit Omaha (Hi) is not Hold’em with two hands. In other words, AK66 of four different suits is not a hand. T987 with two of two suits is. Besides the basic rule difference that you must use two of your hole cards to make a hand, not just one or none as in Hold’em, [...]
Warning: This post is as much to cement something for myself as anything. In other words, I’m no expert.
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What does it mean to put a poker player on a “range of hands”? And what is a range of hands, and what are the implications?
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Start with some simple ones.
Mid position player just calls preflop. Button calls. [...]
fwiw, I still find that the best way for me to play freerolls is to do something else at the same time. Read a book, do non-poker stuff on the internet, watch television, whatever.
I still play freerolls sometimes. Not for the money, obv, but I play when friends are playing. Because I know some of [...]
When I look at the stats for this blog I see that there are a lot of poker beginners reading. That, combined with my teaching background and my own need to make notes for myself has led me to write a lot of instructional type posts.
I want to go one step further in helping beginners [...]
