Goals in Poker; adjusting your expectations

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 | Poker and Life, Poker Articles, Poker Bankroll Management, Poker Cash Games, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | No Comments

Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker and Life series. It's every poker players goal and dream to drag the million dollar pots in the biggest cash games or to be sitting at the final table of the World Series with the TV lights shining.  While this is a cool goal and the dream is possible, you can't expect to go from novice player to big time winner all in one night, one year, or probably your entire lifetime.  It is important to set goals for yourself in poker, but you want to Read more [...]

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Poker betting strategy in cash games

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 | Poker Articles, Poker Cash Games | No Comments

Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series. In small stakes games where I’m not bluffing a very large percentage of the time, I have three primary principles that determine whether and how much I should bet.  Am I betting for value, to protect my hand, or am I controlling the size of the pot? Most beginning players might hear something about protecting top pair on a flush draw flop and end up betting pot and a half to price out the flush draw.  So they end up Read more [...]

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Poker emotions in cash games

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 | Poker Articles, Poker Cash Games | No Comments

Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series. Poker is a very emotionally challenging game.  Perhaps more difficult than any other skill required to master on your way to becoming a winning player is control over your emotions.  This could be because a winning player always has to keep two opposite emotions juxtaposed at the forefront of his or her mind.  At any moment you have to be ready to unleash unbridled aggression while in the very next moment after taking a Read more [...]

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Poker river betting in cash games

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 | Poker Articles, Poker Cash Games | No Comments

Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series. Nearly every poker book has a wealth of information regarding solid pre-flop strategy.  They have starting hand charts showing which hands to play and which to fold from each position and whole chapters on how to play each of these, when to call, raise, reraise etcetera.  However, these same books often devote just a paragraph or two to how to bet the river.  The problem is, in a hundred big blind cash game, the river bet Read more [...]

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