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by Rep Porter | Published: May 17, '16

In my last article, I discussed the idea of accumulating versus surviving in a poker tournament. I feel strongly that accumulating chips in the early parts of poker tournaments gives you a pretty big leg up on the field. I am sure there are a high percentage of people reading this thinking, that sounds great, […]

by Rep Porter | Published: May 03, '16

Recently, we ran a webinar at ThePokerAcademy.com to support our 12-week challenge. This webinar was for session eight in our no-limit tournament course. Session eight covers the stages a poker tournament goes through and the adjustments you need to make to your basic tournament strategy based on the various points in the tournament. People are […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Apr 24, '16

In my last column, I compared passive and aggressive players. I firmly believe that playing poker aggressively is the correct path to long term success at both limit and no-limit hold’em. I also pointed out the biggest pitfall aggressive players face is hand selection. As a newer player realizes they can win lots of pots […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Apr 14, '16

Last week I was discussing what I call the tar baby approach with a fellow poker player. The tar baby is a character from a story in a children’s book I used to have. To trap the wily rabbit, the fox and bear made a baby rabbit out of tar. When the tar baby wouldn’t […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Mar 23, '16

In my last column, I wrote about how the value of your actual cards changes with the circumstances you find yourself in. While this is a concept that is unique to poker among card games, it certainly is not unique just to preflop play. There are many situations post-flop where the value of a hand […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Mar 06, '16

At the end of January, I was at the Poker Night in America cash game and tournament at Thunder Valley Casino outside of Sacramento, California. As I was getting ready to play, a gentleman who is a student at ThePokerAcademy.com came up and introduced himself. He asked me a few questions about poker, but one […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Feb 28, '16

Recently I have been writing about the value of aggression and position in limit hold’em. I have been focusing on how being aggressive preflop increases your chances of being in position post-flop. I’ve also talked about how being the player with the tempo from preflop makes all your hands more profitable post-flop. There is one […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Feb 10, '16

In my last column, I asserted that having position and being the aggressor is the most profitable situation you can find yourself in as you move to the flop in limit hold’em. I suggested that when you are entering the pot, you should almost always be raising. You should be trying to limit the amount […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Feb 03, '16

Today, I want to write a little more about limit hold’em. Specifically, I want to talk about how aggression and position pair together to make a solid preflop strategy. Being aggressive preflop, and by that I mean raising when you come into the pot, leads to having better position after the flop. This, in turn, […]

by Rep Porter | Published: Dec 25, '15

I was sitting at the Commerce Casino the other day, playing poker and watching the WSOP main event on TV. Then, this hand comes up three-handed where Josh Beckley raises on the button with A-10 offsuit and Joe McKeehen is the small blind. Right as I was saying, “Joe should be raising here a lot,” […]