Texas Holdem Poker

The other week, I was in Atlantic City playing some low stakes Limit Holdem. The table that I was at had a pretty standard lineup for the lower limits. There really was only one player that played with any type of aggression, but he tended to get scared on the turn if someone …

Recently, Full Tilt Poker introduced a new concept into poker known as Rush Poker. With Rush Poker, when you fold a hand, you are instantly moved to another table and dealt another hand. In addition, when you are dealt a hand, you do not have to wait to fold. You can click …

So you want to play live tournament poker. You have been playing online for a while and have had some reasonable scores and think that you are ready for the big time. Before you jump head first into playing live events, there are a few things that you need to consider in addition to the …

A lot of volatility has been going on in online poker lately.  A couple of players have decided to walk away for a while and another player has risen to great heights only to crash shortly thereafter.
First, lets talk about the train wreck known as Isildur1.  Isildur1 came onto Full Tilt back in November to …

There are a couple of major poker sites that are offering “Super Turbo” sit n go tournaments. The essence of the events is to start players off with a very small amount of chips and provide very short rounds. Most of these sit n go’s are done within half an hour. These …

Low stakes poker is where many people break into the game or where they go to blow off some steam. While there are some players that take low stakes game seriously, many do not. With that being said, there are a few things that you probably really should not be doing at low …

What do you do when you are in the equivalent of poker hell? Let me give you an example of what happened to me during the first two levels at the 2009 World Series of Poker during the $1,500 Limit Holdem event.
About the third hand into the event, I get pocket aces. I …

So you thought that you had to play at high-stakes poker or middle stakes levels to be a poker pro did you. Well I suppose you are not on your own there but you could define a poker pro as someone whose main source of income comes from poker. You could even take that a …

Weak poker players are not weak for nothing. They are either bereft of poker knowledge or significant poker knowledge or they have other personality weaknesses that get highlighted whenever they play poker. Or maybe they are strong at another form of poker and want to try their hand at a different game. Whatever makes a …

The title may sound somewhat misleading, of course you need cards in poker otherwise how could you ever play the game? This is not what I am talking about of course and what I actually mean is, do you really need strong hands to play? It all depends on the situation and it would be …