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If you are playing 3 Card Poker or another casino variant of the game, you can be sure no one will ever try to cheat you since the casino has the house edge, and they are more than happy to take your money "the easy way." However, things can change in actual poker games, in which individuals play against one another, where there...

Poker is a game of partial information. The more knowledge and data you can glean, the better your chance of winning. Skilled players seek it out before and during play of a hand, and while sitting out a hand. Obviously live poker and online poker are different, and one of the main ways in which this is so is that in live poker...

I define tilt as experiencing negative emotions that remove you from your logic centers which leads to making sub-optimal, unthinking, losing plays. The negative emotions that lead to tilt can be brought on by hundreds of things. On-the-felt; suffering a bad beat, facing loads of 3-bets, missing your draw and Fishy Frank rivering his gutshot straight can set you off. Off-the-felt; relationship problems,...

If you want to try poker without investing any of your own money, sites like Replay Poker might be a good way to go. Why should you not try this option if you don’t have anything to lose, right? In my opinion, however, there really is quite a lot to lose if you decide to try play money online poker. The first such...

Online poker is all fun and joy until and unless you're mindful of the slips and fall. Gambling mistakes are inevitable, and one can only learn to avoid them through practice, experience, and putting in the time to study and improve. This article will guide you through some of the common, basic mistakes that online poker players commit while playing. Having these five...

In my last article, we discussed the idea of being more aggressive pre-flop. In this article, we continue our discussion on playing a bit more aggressively. Let’s explore post-flop play…...

Let’s be honest; it is one thing to be playing in one of your local poker rooms and entirely another one if you decide to compete online. Simply put, you will surely face tougher opponents and much more serious competition online, so better be ready than sorry. The poker world is already...

The following is an excerpt from Chris Wallace's newly released book entitled Short Stack Ninja: Tournament Strategy From A Professional Poker Coach. The resteal zone has always fascinated me. It plays such a big part in the table dynamic that less advanced players never understand. The resteal zone, more than any of the other zones we will discuss here, creates that unseen...

"I had to call – I was pot committed!" How often do you hear this sentence at a poker table? Unless you’re playing in very high stakes games and have somehow stumbled upon this article, I’d wager this is something you hear a lot. Players love to use this excuse to make weird calls and punt their chips away. Maybe you’ve done...

I love the song “Right Place Wrong Time” by Dr. John. Two lines in particulaer stand out to me: Refried confusion is making itself clear Wonder which way do I go to get on out of here. These two lines remind me of how I used to play losing poker. I would face a river bet and I just didn't know how to...