Tips to Master English Championship League Betting The English Football League Championship, despite being the second tier of English football is arguably the most exciting. Featuring 24 teams, the league season is always very dramatic, at…

Glossary of Poker Terms 3-Bet – The term that refers to the third bet of a round of betting. For example, preflop, the blinds are the 1-bet, the first raise is the 2-bet, and if someone raises that bet it’s a 3-bet. Bad Beat – A…

Poker Psychology – Recognising Tilt The word ‘tilt’ in poker refers to a state of emotional or mental instability which causes the player to play in a sub optimal way. This is a very real problem for many players, even professionals, and…

Poker Psychology – Understanding Variance Once you have the fundamentals of poker theory in place, you have all the information to start playing a solid, winning strategy on the smaller stakes of online poker. However, you should first…

Playing Postflop – Calculating Pot Odds Whilst this may sound complicated, it is really just basic mathematics that are used in poker to determine whether you can call a bet profitably. Pot odds are used in conjunction with your equity to…

Playing Postflop – The Equity of Draws Firstly, let’s clear up what the term ‘equity’ means: Equity is simply the percentage of the pot you are expected to win. An example of this is if you go all in preflop with AA against KK, in this…

The Three Reasons for Betting Playing poker postflop is, in essence, very simple. With an aggressive strategy, like the one we are using, you will be betting postflop very often. But the real question we should be asking ourselves when…

Introduction to Postflop Play – Continuation Betting Now we have the preflop foundations cemented, we can start thinking about what we do when we reach a postflop situation. In the lower limits, you will find yourself in a postflop…

The Different Board Types Before we start thinking about how we are going to play our hands postflop, we first have to explore the different types of board we can expect in postflop situations. Rather than thinking about every single…

The Playability of Hands Whilst the table in the previous article will put you in good stead for playing winning poker there are times when you should deviate from this strategy, especially once you get more experienced. For example, if…