If you’re playing freerolls, penny cash tables, or cheap Sit and Goes it’s worth keeping in mind that you often have no or little fold equity. In the last fold equity post I used the example of having 1-1/2 big blinds left, shoving, and being called by the blinds. You don’t have enough chips to [...]

Just a short note, interupting my “fold equity” series of thoughts. At this time of year the activity levels of online poker sites goes up substantially. College and university students are out of school and others have time off work for the holiday season. The really casual casual players are out in force, meaning more [...]

Bluffing and fold equity are related, obviously. It’s because you believe that you have fold equity that you bluff. If there was no chance at all that your opponent might fold (zero fold equity), then there’s no point trying to bluff. For example, in a tournament you just lost a big hand and have 150 [...]

Again with poker aggression topics. A relatively inexperienced poker player asked the question what to do about the fact that she is not comfortable with the bluffing involved in No Limit Hold’em poker. She says that she’s comfortable with the mathematics of odds, and she finds herself more comfortable with other poker games other than [...]

So last night I did something that I’ve been meaning to do regularly, and for a long time. I recorded another poker video myself. I’ve done a couple before, so I know how to get the setup to work. I used Camtasia, which I’ve used before, and a simple mic plugged into my laptop. Camtasia [...]

I watch videos of people multi tabling no limit hold’em poker games. Some are intended as instructional videos, and others are done by players at various levels just to show how they play and are made available as much for generating comments on their play to help them improve as anything else. What I’ve been [...]

It really doesn’t take very much mental or physical strength or energy to play online poker generally. Enough alertness to follow what’s going on, enough strength to move the mouse and click and you’re good. At least for the basics. I have a no limit and limit hold’em poker simulator game that I bought for [...]

I tried to find a list that ranks how much skill, as opposed to chance, determines the outcome of a game. (One anthropology source had categories for chance, skill and strategy. I’m not sure how one separates skill from strategy.) One way of looking at it is to consider; if you have an expert versus [...]