Poker Tips and Strategy - Page 24

Consider the following. You're watching poker on TV. Who are you going to focus on? The guy who is loud, obnoxious, cocky, and taunting his opponent or the guy who is just sitting quietly?...

I want you to think of the play of a hand of 7-card stud symbolically – at least for a few minutes. Think of a slide – like the one you used to use in the playground when you were a young child....

You don't have to be an Einstein to play winning poker. Even so, an understanding of the laws of relativity can only serve to help you at the poker table....

I went out to a poker club the other night. I saw the usual cast of poker players that I know from the place. Everyone was either seated or standing around the table. One of the guys who normally plays was standing back having a beer or two....

There is a commonly spoken poker adage that a good stud player doesn't fold on sixth street. He bets, raises, or he calls. I've heard this from many seasoned players – including a couple of pros...

Ask the average Joe what the most important thing is to being a good poker player and he'll often answer, 'Uh, I don't know. Maybe having a good poker face.' At least that's been my experience.

Poker is a game about making proper decisions. If you can make the right decisions while your opponents make the wrong decisions you will win money over time. It's as simple as that....

In a prior poker column I addressed playing low and medium pairs on third street. I mentioned that they could be the source of some extra profit or significant loss if you didn't get away from them correctly....

In my last column I showed you some examples of hands that looked initially like they should not be played. But I explained how they really had some value. I focused on relatively simple cases. This one is slightly more complicated....

In my Veteran's Day column I explained why many hands that might have looked superficially good really weren't. In today's and next week's column I turn that upside down

I published an article on this site on October 7th that set out eight hands that looked good superficially, but that when considered more carefully...

In Part I of this series, I explained that the most thorough strategy on this game presented in David Sklansky's book Sklansky on Poker. I also explained that most of the razz games that I've found lately....

I suppose it started when one poker player or another was tired of only getting bad hands. Someone came up with the novel idea of letting the worst hand win for a change. Thus was razz born....

I've written a lot about game selection – about the importance of a finding a game where you are better than the average player. I've shown in these articles how your ability to win is directly connected to finding games with poor players...

The title is sexy and seductive I suppose. It's every guy's fantasy -- to be a stud in Las Vegas. All those showgirls. But my tale is not that tail. It's a more somber report.

I spend a lot of time in these articles giving you the general theory with a couple of examples to illustrate the point. This time I'm going to do something very different. I'm going to just list a long series of hands...

When I was younger and on a very limited budget I used to have to think about how I would pay for things I wanted. When I wanted to buy something the question 'Where will the money come from?' had to be answered first....

I have always had a fondness in the special poker section of my heart for the Greater Louisville area. I have family in the area -- just over the river in the small town of DuPauw, Indiana....

Your strategy must change after the first few players are knocked out but before you are clearly in the money. By this point I've found that there are a couple of players on life support....

In Stud/8 poker, with your high hands without lows you should be extremely cautious, only entering the hand when you are certain or nearly certain that you have the highest, and then entering for a raise...