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…

Playing Tight Aggressive – Facing 3-Bets There will be times in a game of poker where you will pick up a nice hand, raise to our standardised raising size, only to find that an opponent behind us re-raises, or 3-bets, us. It is essential…

Playing Tight Aggressive – Preflop Raising We now have a hand range for each position to get you started with a winning strategy, but there are a few things that need to be explored a bit more specifically. One major aspect of poker we…