Live Poker Archive

Perplexing Poker: The more you fold, the more you win! As crazy as that will sound to novice poker players, it’s the truth. Ask any successful pro how often they fold, and they’ll tell you at least 90% (usually more) of their hands get thrown away—some as early as pre-flop, others as late as...

PartyPoker Live and World Poker Tour unite to bring more live poker tournaments to Canada and Europe. Consider the poker brands whose familiarity ring the loudest. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is certainly among the most recognized, global live poker brands. Equally recognizable within the online poker realm is the name PartyPoker, one of...

The value of poker books in the digital age. In previous generations, the spread of poker knowledge was primarily achieved through books. Professional players and mathematicians wrote complete guides to poker variants, hand calculations, odds calculations, how to read poker tells, and everything else considered valuable to a player’s strategic arsenal. Times have changed...

Learn why many poker pros prefer cash games to tournaments. In the greater scheme of poker evolution, there’s a basic order to things. New players learn the rules, then enter low-stake cash games to hone their skills. Next, they move up to tournaments, hoping to one day claim bigger rewards, if not a coveted...

Professional poker training is an eternal commitment to further education. I have to wonder, if Sir Isaac Newton were alive today, would he be among the world’s greatest poker players? His first law of motion states: “An object at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An object in...

Beginner’s Guide: 7 Card Stud Poker Rules By today’s standards, 7 Card Stud is one of the simpler forms of poker. It isn’t nearly as popular as it once was, but there is still a niche group of players who enjoy the high volatility, and potentially high profitability, due to its multiple betting rounds....

Is playing online poker really better than playing live? Poker is poker. Whether you prefer Texas Hold’em, 7 Card Stud, or a more traditional game of 5 Card Draw, the rules of each game won’t change between live and online formats. In this way, one could argue that there’s really no difference between playing...

WPT Women’s Poker Summit: Why aren’t more women playing poker? The inaugural WPT Women’s Poker Summit was held on Sunday, August 26, 2018. Its structure is what some are calling a bold experiment on the part of the World Poker Tour, with a single goal in mind. They want to find out why more...

Fixed Limit, Pot Limit & No Limit betting structures in Hold’em poker games. Learning the basic rules of Texas Hold’em or any other Hold’em-oriented poker game is only the first step in acquiring the necessary knowledge to get in on the action. The next step is understanding all the different betting structures that can...

Beginners Guide: Learn to play Texas Hold’em Poker Texas Hold’em is a relatively simple game to learn. It’s based on the same premise and hand-ranking system of traditional 5-card poker games, but utilizes more cards per player, and a communal sharing of those cards. The following is a beginner’s guide to Texas Hold’em. We’ll...