Avoid Adjustment Tilt

Recently, I benefited from a serious case of what I call "adjustment tilt." I was in a live $2-$5 no-limit hold'em game. Most of the players, including me, had helped to start the game a few hours earlier, so we were familiar with each other's play. Some of the players had...

Wednesday Jul 09, 2008

published 14 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 13

The Pitfalls of Slow-Playing

Slow-playing is seemingly one of the most tempting no-limit hold'em strategies. Flop a huge hand, and, in the immortal words of Elmer Fudd, "Be vewy, vewy quiet." It fits with the image of poker as a game of deception; little do your opponents know that you're waiting in the...

Wednesday Jun 25, 2008

published 28 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 12

Firing the Third Barrel

When was the last time you three-barrel bluffed? Was it months ago? Years? Never? Let me back up a bit. A three-barrel bluff is when you make a bluff bet on all three of the post-flop streets. You bet the flop and get called. You bet the turn and get called. And then you make another bluff on the...

Wednesday Jun 11, 2008

published 42 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 11

Using Your Opponents' Words Against Them

People ask me questions about talking tells all the time. "While I was thinking about calling a big bet, my opponent kept saying, 'You should fold.' Should I have believed him or not?" It's a difficult question to answer, because the meaning varies from player to player....

Wednesday May 21, 2008

published 63 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 10

How Wide Are Your Ranges?

We poker wonks tend to like to analyze individual hands. I had this and did this. Then my opponent did that. Then I did this, but actually I think doing this other thing might have been more profitable. Then we write a thousand-word column about the merits of doing this versus doing the other...

Wednesday May 14, 2008

published 70 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 9

Resisting the Raising Reflex in No-Limit Hold'em

No doubt, you've heard from many a person that the key to poker is never to call. Raise or fold. If you can't raise, throw it away. It's perhaps useful advice for a casual player who hasn't yet seen how powerful aggression can be. But I think it's also very limiting advice,...

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