Apparently this has been brewing for some time. IPoker network, accessed by various poker “skins”, is requiring their skins to remove players who win too much.
Victor Chandler Poker is one of the bigger skins on the IPoker network and recently has been tagged for sending out emails to players on their network who win too [...]

“There are three ways to play a pair of Jacks, and they’re all wrong.” Ever hear that one before?
Here are some things to keep in mind:

As with all hands the full plan of how to play it is, “it depends”
Our 2 hole cards are 2 of the five cards when the flop comes out, or [...]

As I watch more and more mid stakes poker coaching videos and read and discuss more on the internet about poker theory I keep noticing similarities between the hands that a beginner plays and the hands that a higher stakes player will play, hands that I, at various points, started to weed out of my [...]

What is a “cooler”? A cooler in poker is when you are dealt a big hand, only to find out that you were up against a bigger hand. The term comes from “cold deck”, one where you aren’t getting cards to play, and this came from references to a fixed deck, or one that someone [...]

What is a “tagfish”?
There seem to be different definitions for the term tagfish floating around. The wording of the term implies someone that plays or is trying to play the tight-aggressive style of playing but is also still a fish; someone that is exploitable.
One version of the tagfish is the player who has a [...]

Picture yourself walking along a path on the side of a hill. Each step is like folding preflop. Fold, fold, fold. Then you decide to raise preflop. This is like a stomp, or a step off the path, a forceful step, asserting that you have a hand, that you’re not afraid to increase the stakes. [...]

Another great article by Ed Miller, his post on “The Pitfalls of Running Good”
And, for me, timely, as I’ve been at a bit of a loss as to how to handle running good recently myself. The thing from Ed’s article that struck me most was about opening up, ’cause that’s one of the things that [...]

How often have you heard, or even said yourself,

Idiot! Calls my Aces with any two suited cards
I had his small pair crushed
How can he call preflop with that garbage?
Gapped connectors! They weren’t even suited!

First off, if you know that your opponent has AA, you should call with anything. AA is a 85% favorite over a [...]