I don’t usually write about spots that come up infrequently but recently I witnessed this hand I thought was uniquely instructive. Everyone started with about 150 big blinds. Player A in 1st position raised to 3 big blinds, Player B, a good tight aggressive kid in 2nd position, reraised to 8 big blinds and Player C, a mediocre loose aggressive kid in 3rd position, 4-bet to 22 big blinds. …
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I have to figure out how to get full value from middle set in a three-way pot. Would you have played this situation the same way I did?
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Weekly Poker Hand #84 Read More »
I have been spending a lot of time working on my game recently, and one of my favorite tools to use is ICMizer’s SNG Coach feature. This program puts you in numerous tricky situations and you have to decide which hands you should go all-in with and which you should fold. While I am decently good at these situations, I am far from perfect. I am confident that if I study diligently, I will eventually become quite close to perfect. Since I strive to bring you the best educational poker content, here are two videos two me studying with ICMizer’s SNG Coach feature. Be sure to click the “full screen” option at the bottom right of the video so you can see all the numbers. …
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I flop a premium draw, miss, and then have to figure out how to make my opponent fold a decently strong hand on the river. Would you have made the same play?
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Weekly Poker Hand #83 Read More »
The following hand is from one of my newest books, Jonathan Little on Live No-Limit Cash Games, Volume 2, The Practice. This book is a collection of 105 in-depth hand quizzes that I played at $10/$20 and $20/$40 No-Limit at the Commerce Casino. My students have told me this is one of my best work to date. If you haven’t check it out already, I suggest you do so. Would you have played this hand the same way I did? What do you think about this quiz format? Let me know!
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I find myself facing a river bet on a 4-flush board with only middle pair. Do you make the hero-call?
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Weekly Poker Hand #82 Read More »
I have been studying poker a ton recently and one of my favorite programs to work with is PokerSnowie. Since I strive to constantly bring you the best training material possible, I decided to record a few videos of me studying for you to watch. These two videos are of me playing against PokerSnowie’s Challenge feature, which essentially lets me play against a number of “perfect”-playing bots. It is useful to see how they react to my play and also how they approach common situations. If you play against excellent players on a regular basis, if you play significantly different than these bots, you are almost certainly making significant errors. …
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I flop a weak drawing hand and find a way to run a bluff by the river. Do you attempt the bluff in this spot?
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Weekly Poker Hand #81 Read More »
Due to the popularity of my recent blog post where I reviewed 5 hands from an EPT event, in this blog post I am going to share with you the last 5 hands I played during the final two levels of day 1a of the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open. I had a difficult seat, with 3-time WPT Champion Anthony Zinno and WSOP Main Event Champion Joe McKeehen on my left, but I did my best. I will give my analysis of each situation to let you know exactly why I made each play. Would you have played these hands I played them? Let me know in the comments section below. …
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I elect to 5-bet preflop with K3s. Is this a standard play or have I lost my mind?
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Weekly Poker Hand #80 Read More »
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