Poker Strategies Archive

Five considerations to increase your odds of winning small stakes online poker tournaments. There’s nothing more exhilarating than a poker tournament with a cheap buy-in and a large field. They cost little to join, making them very attractive; in turn offering some very juiciest prize pools. Canada’s most popular poker sites love to offer...

You’re either a good online poker player, or you’re not. You can’t fake skill on the internet. There’s an enormous difference between live and online poker when it comes to the use of skill. In a live setting, anyone can fake being good at the game. It might work well for them, or it...

Texas club dealers agree women play better poker than men. What makes a good poker player these days? Mathematical skills are important. A player with the ability to quickly calculate pot odds and expected values when the action is coming their way will have an advantage over another player who makes decisions based on...

Bad beats happen in poker. You must be able to take the hit and live to fight another day. “Poker is a game of chance.” “No sir, poker is a game of skill.” “You’re both wrong. Poker is a game of chance and skill.” This debate is never likely to end, because there are...

How Concerned Should I Be About Online Poker Bots? The majority of the world’s adult population are hard working people. Day in, day out, entering the work force to make ends meet. I can’t even imagine how many times people have thought, if I just had a robot here to do my work for...

The lowest poker rake isn’t always the best choice. Wait, what? Did I read that right? Yes, you did. The lowest rake isn’t always the best rake. Sometimes, a higher poker rake is actually better. How could this be? It’s a situational thing, really. It depends greatly on injecting a few variables into the...

You can’t win online poker if you don’t take it seriously. Monopoly, Euchre, Cribbage, Hearts, Rummy—these are just games. They are enjoyed among multiple players for sheer entertainment. Even with a little side bet on the line, the end goal is to have a good time. The same can be said of most casino...

Three important aspects of your online poker arsenal. Every strategic poker player has a bag of tricks. The bigger the bag, the most successful the poker player—usually. Knowing when to pull which trick out of the bag is the real key to success. And because online poker doesn’t give you the same range of...

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...

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...