The Shark Tank

I thought of posting this one last night.  In general, when someone limps in the small blind to your big blind, you should raise.  I find that about 70% of the time they will fold pre-flop or on the flop, making the move profitable with any two cards.  If someone routinely folds pre-flop when you [...]

This article is the conclusion of a series. If you haven’t done so already, you should probably read Part One or skip this post too if you are my Mom. There are five basic results that you will see when you check-raise the flop in terms of how the other players will handle it. I’d [...]

First things first. I may have “stole” some of this material from a number of poker books. At this point, I have read so much and forgot even more, so I no longer remember which ideas are my own and which ideas I learned from the greats. Also, I make no promises that this is [...]

Suited had the idea for me to write this particular blog entry.  I was telling her about an experience I had last night where someone started to berate me for being such a bad player.  This happens to me fairly often because I seem to play a bit different than anyone else I see.  I [...]

I got a nice message from one of my poker buds asking me to elaborate on how I “bully” the table as a big stack. He mentioned that he often loses a lot of money using this approach, which suggests that he does it wrong. I thought it might have enough general interest to post [...]