Kevin Ko takes a look at how preflop raising and continuation betting can give you the initiative in a hand and increase your profit at the tables
Over the past several years, poker played at a competent level has devel-oped into a consistently aggressive game. The mid stakes online games feature incessant preflop raising, re-raising, continuation [...]
This month Tao Jin examines the pros and cons of taking coin flips, covering just when, where and who you should be flipping with.
It is almost impossible to avoid getting into coin flip situations in multi-table tournaments. In fact, you will probably have to face multiple coin flips in the course of a single tournament [...]
Andy Moseley explores the fundamentals of heads-up play and explains why adaptation is the key to success.
Heads-up is a different beast to six-max or nine-handed cash games. Many players do not even consider venturing into this form of the game until they have established themselves on the poker ladder, which is probably a wise financial [...]
By Kevin Ko
Poker is often called a game of hidden information. Imagine how easy it would be to win if you knew what is largely unknown to most of us – our opponent’s hand, or the cards to come. Outside of cheating, there’s no way for us to preemptively figure out exactly which cards will [...]
In tournaments, there isn’t really a clear definition, in terms of big blinds, as to when you are considered “short stacked”, but in the later stages of multi table tournaments (MTTs), most of the time you will not have a deep enough stack to play postflop poker anyway. As such, it is very important for [...]
Read More »One part of the online player’s arsenal – which is seldom used as an effective weapon by players who ply their trade in the live arena – is the check-raise. A relatively simple and well-known concept, the check-raise is self-explanatory in nature. Simply check and then raise your opponents bet, putting the pressure firmly back [...]
Read More »“Balance” is a word thrown around the poker community, often pretty loosely and without much thought. On the surface, balance is as easy as making sure that whenever you raise an opponent’s flop continuation bet, for example, you have a range with which you do it for value and a range with which you do [...]
Read More »Hello again everyone. I hope you have all been winning at poker lately. It is nice to be a winner, no? Nothing beats that amazing feeling you get when you take down a pot, for me, it really warms my cockles. I guess I’m really on a theory kick these days, trying to give back [...]
Read More »An issue that you hopefully will have to face many times in your poker career is what to do in a tournament as you approach the bubble. The “bubble” refers to the first spot that gets paid according to the prize distribution. If the payout structure dictates that the top 25 players get paid, the [...]
Read More »There is this saying that you only ever either win a small pot or lose a big one with Pocket Aces.
Many players tend to lose a lot of money in situations where it is easy to claim they were simply unlucky, or were outdrawn, whilst holding Aces or other big pairs. While it is [...]
