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How to Exploit These Different Players
When playing poker we will want to have a pretty balanced style, however there are going to be some obvious spots that come up against certain player types where we will want to deviate away from this balanced style and get exploitive, we take a look at some examples and some adjustments we can make to make more money at the tables.
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Exploring Some Hands from the $5,200 WCOOP Main Event of BIGBLUFFZINC
We pick up the action late game in this huge online tournament with the winner bagging over $1.6Million!
We review a few hands from Canadian Poker Pro and Streamer Hugh Drummond otherwise known as BIGBLUFFZINC.
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Final Table of SECOOP 4 Max, €7,800.00 for the Win, Can We Do It?
This is the second part of our tournament review of this 4 Max event from the recent SECOOP series, where we now take our play on to the final table, you can watch our youtube play by play video and read our in-depth hand analysis of some of the most interesting spots we came across on the final table as we try and bag ourselves a huge prize!
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Playing Late Game in the 4 Max SECOOP €7,800.00 For the Win
We are going to look at hands taken from the recent SECOOP series where there were some big guarantees, this particular game was a €50 4 Max Turbo with just over €7,800.00 going to the eventual champion. We got off to a good start and had a big stack from the moment we started playing, we pick up the action with 20 players left…
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This Secret from the Pros Will Make You Tonnes of Extra Money!
Forget everything you know about bet sizings! In this post, we share with you one of the best secrets from the top pros and how they earn so much money using this neat trick!
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How to Beat Spin & Go Flash Games
In this post, we continue to look at some short stack strategy for playing these 15BB games like Pros!
We give you three huge tips and show how we played hands in real games to back up our reasoning!
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How Much Should We Bet With Our Hands?
In this post we are going to take another look at the mystery that surrounds bet sizing, this is a huge part of our game and we will need to really have a good idea on correct bet sizings to do well in the long run in poker.
Today we are going to switch things up and dive straight into example hands and look at some sizings and then explain our reasoning…
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When To Use Delayed C-Bets
Continuation betting is the classic approach to winning pots, we will often have the stronger range and therefore be able to win a lot of the pots on the flop with a C-Bet, however against good players we can get exploited by check-raises or floats that will look to steal the bloated pot on later streets.
In this post we look at when we should be delaying our C-bets to win more money…
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A Look at Buehlero’s $70,000 High Roller Knockout Win
In this post, we review some hands from late game in Henri Buehlero’s recent win in the $530 KO tournament on PokerStars, a huge game with massive bounties we are going to run through some hands that he played and dissect how he navigates through the various pots.
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How to Win Spin and Go Flash Games
In this post, we are going to take a look at some hands from playing in the new game on Pokerstars the Spin & Go Flash format.
With fast paced short stack action we need to have some moves up our sleeves to be profitable at these games, lets take a look at some tips in this post…
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How to Play on Paired Boards
This is going to occur around 17% of the time, the flop comes down with a pair on it.
This can be a little worrying, does our opponent now have three of a kind? Should we protect our hand or play small ball poker… In this post, we look at the strategy for playing on this board texture.
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How to Crush Calling Stations
Probably one of the most important tactics to learn for small stakes poker is how to play against beginner players.
A lot of new players will be calling stations, that just press call no matter how big and scary the bet looks they will just look at what they have in their hand and think, I need to call with this hand.
In this post, we look at some tactics to maximise our win rate against these types of players…
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Spin and Go Tips for Crushing
There’s a new game on the block from PokerStars… Spin & Go Flash!
With starting stacks at just 15BBs and with one-minute levels we will find ourselves playing with just 10BB stacks with the 300 Starting stack within just one minute of play…
In this post, we look at our ranges needed to play these shallow stacks…
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Playing Ace King When We Miss the Flop
In this post, we are going to look at a few examples of some good lines to play post-flop with Ace-King when we miss the board.
These can be some of the most awkward spots to learn how to play even for seasoned poker players, so let’s look at some examples…
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A Look At Some Key Tournament Hands
In this post, I wanted to run through some good tournament hands that came up in a small stakes turbo tournament I recently won on Pokerstars.es
With various different situations coming up I thought players of all skill levels could learn from, let’s take a look…
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Tips for Dealing with Downswings
We have all been there, from the novice player to the seasoned high stakes pro, bad runs affect us all.
In this post, we are going to look at some great tactics for avoiding tilt and extra losses whilst on these bad runs…
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Let’s Talk About Folding
It’s one of the three options that we have at all times during the game, but when and how often should we fold?
In this post, we take a look at when we should or shouldn’t be making folds…
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Choosing Correct Bet Sizings
In this post, we will take a look at why the best players use the sizings they do…
Sometimes they will be betting very small and other times we will see some overbetting from the best players, we will take a look at why these players use these drastically different sizings.
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More Tournament Lessons from a WSOP Bracelet Winner
In this post, we take a look at some more hands from Ryan Laplante’s review session with Poker Streamer Arli Shaban.
We run through some of the hands and give an in-detail breakdown of how we can play these spots.
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Some World Class Tournament Tips from Ryan Laplante
In this post, we are going to talk about some Hand review tips that Ryan Laplante comments on whilst looking through one of his student’s hand histories from a tournament they play…
It makes for some thought-provoking material from a real masterful tournament player, we pick up some key early game hands in this post to learn from…
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If You’re Not Attacking These Board Types, You’re Losing Money
In this post, we take a look at some boards we can really go after whilst defending from the blinds.
We will have some value hands and some semi bluffs on low flops and a huge range advantage, all of this means we will want to be putting a lot of action in on these favourable boards for our range, let’s look at some tips…
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Don’t Play Poker Like This!
In this post, we wanted to show you a recent hand between some high stakes players from a Poker Night in America game that was streamed where Randall Emmett faces off against Danielle Andersen and the mysterious WhoisWho in this three-way pot.
We look at pretty much exactly what not to do in this spot…
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Checking Back the Turn To Win More Money
In this post, we take a look at a couple of turn card spots where we will want to pot control for a few reasons.
We take a look at some of the benefits of using this play as part of a balanced strategy and how it’s going to benefit us…
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Do You Know Your Short-Stack Push/Folds?
In this post, we test your knowledge on some push or fold spots from a six-handed tournament…
How will you fair? Are you a feared tournament grinder, or will you learn a thing or two…
Let’s see if you know your ranges…
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Learning from some tough spots with Steffen “go0se.core!” Sontheimer
In this post, we take a look at some of Steffen Sontheimer’s recent $2/$5 NL Zoom cash game adventures on PokerStars.
The young German Pro has proven to be one of the best players in the world and really has a great way of talking about his thought processes in pots, let’s take a look at some of his hands from one of his most recent session…
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How to Play Small Pairs
In this article, we are going to run through some advice on how to play all our small pairs… for this post, we will use 22-77 as our example hands.
These are hands that aren’t going to flop too well a great deal of the time but when they do we can look to have a stranglehold on the equity and hopefully win a big pot!
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Don’t be a Nit with your Monsters!
In this post we take a look at some examples of playing too nitty, it can be an easy mistake to make when just getting into poker, we have a good hand but the action is so much that we think we will be beaten with our holding too often
We look at some tough spots and see if we can learn something from them…
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Big River Bluff from Amateur
In this post, we take a look at a fun hand from Live at the bike with Garrett vs Bill Klein.
We see a value bet from the G-Man get raised by the Amateur applying some heat and going for the bluff on the river, we breakdown the hand and look at the strategies involved…
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Review Your Tournament Spots Easily
In this post, we look at how to take a hand history and learn if we made the correct move in a tournament.
Reviewing spots like this will make us better at playing ones like that again in the future, so even if we make mistakes we can hope to be better next time!
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Playing Backdoor Draws
We aren’t going to always flop a made hand in poker and we need to have some bluffs in our range.
Bad players will just choose any 2 random cards and just decide to go for the pot, but we need to construct smart bluffs where we will have equity on different run-outs, welcome to our guide to playing backdoor draws…
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