Archive for the Poker Articles Category

• Why You Shouldn’t Complain While Playing Poker - February 16th, 2025
  

  Certain poker players would rather complain about a pot they lose. They actually think that complaining will make them feel better about what just happened.. Complaining is simply bad karma. Since it cannot help your strategy to engage in complaining, then you have to start asking yourself why you are doing it.

• How to Manipulate Your Table Image - February 15th, 2025
  

  Some of the world's leading poker players, players whose credentials and skill at the game simply cannot be denied have imparted yet another remarkable piece of advice to us struggling poker players: the importance of deliberately showing a weaker hand to throw your opponent off guard. This may seem self-defeating (playing only weak cards) but it means that you can save your finishing strategy for later on the game and ideally, for whenever you know that the pot is well and truly in your line of fire.

• When To Play From Early Position - February 10th, 2025
  

  When you choose to play more repeatedly from early position in no limit holdem, it can present more obstacles to your opponents in distinguishing the nature of player you really are. However, it is frequently more pricey to do so, because of the intrinsic risks with having the maximum amount of players to act after you.

• Profiling Opponents At the Table - February 8th, 2025
  

  Without a doubt, one of the best things about using poker calculator software is that you are in the fortunate position of being able to create profiles for each of the players you happen to be playing against, which means you can then classify them accordingly based on their historical data. You can start collecting data from the moment you sit at a table, but in reality how much data do you need to collect before it starts to become usable?

• Why To Avoid Limping In Tournaments - February 3rd, 2025
  

  Most players limp from time to time during tournaments, but doing it too often can really be costly. Limping seems week, because ordinarily the act of calling waives control of the hand to someone else at the table, yet limping is not always a bad move. Can limping ever be a viable strategy when all of the poker training you hear about online always tells us to play more aggressively?

• Poker Starting Hand Guides – How To Use Them - January 30th, 2025
  

  If you are a new player to online poker then you may find the various starting hand strategy guides that are available online and in shops to be extremely useful. One of the best things about these guides is that they provide the user with knowledge of the various problems and commonly committed poker "sins" which can, and often do, cost a poker player a lot of money. If you restrict your poker playing strictly to narrow hands and this limited range of playing positions then you are guaranteed to lose money in the long term.

• How to Handle Bad Beats - January 29th, 2025
  

  It doesn't matter how skilled or talented a poker player you happen to be, because even the pros can lose their cool if they get a bum hand and lose out on a lot of cash as a result. What makes the sting of such a loss even worse is that we psyche ourselves up, and a loss like this blindsides us, forcing us to swallow our pride which is not an especially attractive option for anyone. Whereas in other games skill will reign supreme and those who are the fastest, strongest etc will invariably win, poker is not quite so clear cut.

• Strategies For Playing Weak Opponents - January 25th, 2025
  

  It should be very profitable playing poker against bad players , but do you often find yourself losing to players who have no clue of what they are doing?  This can be hugely frustrating for players that are serious about improving their own game, because when an opponent is clueless it’s almost impossible to put [...]

• Varying Your Hand Selection - January 24th, 2025
  

  Starting hand guides can be useful tools for players new to online poker, and new players can certainly benefit from such a tight structure, but they can also make you easy to read…