Short Stacking in No Limit Hold Em part 2 Your big stack is irrelevant when confronting a short stacker heads-up, since you can only ever win the amount of his stack, you are effectively playing the same short stack as your opponent in your c....more

Short Stacking in No Limit Hold Em Playing a short stack, around 30 big blinds or less, properly in no Limit Hold em poker involves a very basic strategy. It basically involves staying patient, waiting for premium or near premium hands....more

No limit Hold em bankroll considerations part 2 If you are constantly playing at a 1% risk threshold i.e. you are moving up limits as soon as you reach the ‘required bankroll requirements’ then your chances of going bust are significantly highe....more

Starting hands in No Limit Hold Em part 2 Hands that increase in value in No Limit Hold Em are ones with high implied odds. These include small to medium pocket pairs 22-99, suited connectors such as 76s. They are hands that are easy to play ....more

Starting hands in No Limit Hold Em part 1 The starting value of hands differs quite a lot between No Limit and Fixed Limit Hold Em. The prime reason for this is something called implied odds, which while a factor in fixed limit, becomes much ....more

Stack sizes in No Limit Hold Em part 3 Larger stack sizes in a game greatly increase the value of speculative hands. Deeper stacks give more tools in the form of chips for the skilled professional poker player to work with, so in effect th....more

Stack sizes in no Limit Hold Em part 2 A crucial factor in no limit hold em is the quantity of chips that players have in their stack. Stack size not only has a major impact on what strategy a player should be looking to employ in the pok....more

Stack sizes in no Limit Hold Em part 1 Minimum buy-in in most online games is 20 buy-ins but for our purposes we call a short stack anything from 0 to 40 big blinds, of course there is quite a difference between someone holding 5 big blind....more

How to play the trouble Hands in No Limit Hold Em part 2 So, you might say well if they are so much trouble then should we even be playing these picture cards. The answer is actually yes, often they are still playable. But we have to realize that they play ....more

How to play the trouble Hands in No Limit Hold Em part 1 As poker players we often bemoan our luck when we continually get dealt trash hands such as 72, 84, 95 or when we raise preflop with pocket Aces or pocket Kings and get no action. While neither is a d....more

How much to bet on the flop in no limit hold em Simplistically speaking when you have a strong made hand you want to get as much of your money in the pot as possible without your opponent folding. What this amount actually will be will vary on a nu....more

Delayed Continuation Betting in No Limit Hold Em part 2 Say we raise UTG + 1 (under the gun + 1 i.e. second to act preflop) to 3 big blinds and everyone folds to the player in the small blind, who calls, and the big blind folds. The flop comes 8d 5d 4h. Th....more

Delayed Continuation Betting in No Limit Hold Em part 1 A continuation bet is where the preflop raiser follows through on the flop with another bet. Strange as it might seem to the newbie poker player, this can be done for two very different reasons, eithe....more

3-betting in No Limit Hold Em part 3 The Squeeze is a special form of the 3-bet, it happens when one player raises, and gets one or more cold callers. A player in late position or the blinds can then make the squeeze play by 3-betting.....more

3-betting in No Limit Hold Em part 2 One of the most common times to raise in Hold Em is in late position; this can be done with a wider range of hands as since there are fewer players left to act, the chances of someone having a genuine....more

3-Betting in No Limit Hold Em part 1 When someone raises preflop, they are effectively saying they have a good hand, and most of the time this is the actual truth. The result of this raise is that it should discourage hands that might ha....more