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How to Play Heads Up Hyper Turbos
In this post, we explore the world of heads up hyper turbos
Some players have made millions from specialising these games, they are the foundation of all tournament poker because you will always need to beat your last opponent to get the biggest prize in any field game…
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Triton HighRollers Short Deck Plays
In this post, we take a look at some of the action played by the Triton Highrollers in the recent London Short Deck Cash game.
We take an in-depth look at the strategy behind the plays of these top tier Pros in the attempt of learning the best lines to use in our own Short Deck cash game action…
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Hands from Jaime Staples Biggest ever Win
Jaime Staples tops his biggest ever Poker win this weekend by taking 5th in the $2,100 Knockout Series Event on PartyPoker.
The young Canadian, currently playing from Scotland in the UK won his seat in the event from a $215 qualifier and ended up cashing for $35,276.88!
In this post, we review some of his play on his way to getting his 5th place finish…
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3 Bet bluffs or Value raises
In this post, we are going to look at a different line to take with our borderline hands…
Rather than playing medium strength holdings passively we explore a different strategy where we will either fold or 3-Bet with our hands to continue in these spots.
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Why Do the Best Players Bet Small?
In this post, we are going to look at some good spots to bet small in spots.
It seems like all the best Pros bet tiny on certain boards, in this article we learn why this is and which boards are best to apply this move to…
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Spin and Go Tips for Crushing
In this post, we are going to look at some hands played in Spin & Go’s on PokerStars.
We look at the strategy behind the lines we take and reveal the tips that will make your graph skyrocket and your bankroll boom…
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Inducing Bluffs in Tournament Pots
In this post, we look at a tournament hand from the late stages of an EPT where two players face off and battle some wide ranges.
We look at how keeping ranges wide in hands will allow for many bluffs in your opponents’ range, when this is the case we are going to want to be calling more often…
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Calling Off In Three-Way Pots
In this post, we look at the always difficult decision of whether we should call off three-ways with our hand
We break down all the equities from our opponents and what kind of hands we will need to make these calls…
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Playing Queens DeepStacked
In this post, we look at a hand where we have pocket Queens in Mid-Position facing some heavy action in the early stages of a tournament.
We run you through exactly how we played this spot and why we did so the way we did at over 150BBs deep…
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Crazy EPT Barcelona Final Table Hand
In this post, we look at a crazy hand played on the Final Table of the 2019 Barcelona EPT.
In this hand both opponents flop a monster but one hand has a slight edge that ends up playing a huge difference!
We take a look at this world class play and work out we can integrate moves like this into our game…
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Post Flop Cash Game Plays
In this post, we look at playing some hands post-flop when the action gets a little bit tricky.
We go through some thought processes that the best GTO players out there right now will use to work out how we should be playing our hands after the flop.
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Can We Fold The Aces on This Bad Board?
In this post, we are going to look at a hand played on Live at the Bike where Mike “The Mouth” Matusow clashes with Garrett Aldestein in a huge pot where Mike has the Bullets and Garrett has his usual suited connector combo.
We review the hand step by step and look into some strategy on playing these deep stack spots with just one pair…
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A Look at Some Difficult Multi-way Spots
Here we are going to take a look at some of the harder to deal with tournament poker spots we might find ourselves in…
In this post, we will look at some examples of some tough tournament poker hands that even good players need to revise what the correct play is…
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Best Poker Apps to Improve your Game
We have downloaded every Poker app we could find in order to bring you the best of the best on the market at the moment.
We have found some real gems, with tools that will up your game from a budding poker player to give you all the resources to be a world-class tournament player…
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Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time: Part 2
In this, the second part of a look into how we played the $33 Big Fish Tournament on 888 Poker we will delve into a few more key hands that we feel are a big leak in many players games…
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Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time
In this post, we will look at some No Limit-Hold’em Poker Tournament spots, we will describe each play and why we make these moves.
We review hands taken from one of the best tournaments on 888Poker the $33 Big Fish, with qualifiers from just a few dollars and a soft field, this is a good game to set your sights on taking down.
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Tips on Playing Mulitway Pots
In this post, we are going to run over some tips on playing multiway pots.
These can be tricky spots to play, we are going to want to protect our hand certain times but not over-play our hand other times, as hand strengths alter completely when we are in a multiway pot…
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888 BLAST Strategy
In this post, we are going to take a look at 888Poker’s Jackpot Sit n Go offering.
These are 4 handed, Hyper-Turbo Sit n Go’s that have different levels of game length depending on buy-in and prize multiplier up to over 1000x the buy-in!
We look at some strategy for all the different types of games we will play…
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OverBetting for Value!
In this the second part of us looking into the world of Over-Betting the pot, we look at an example where Doug Polk over-bets for maximum value…
The hand is taken from a Live at the Bike No limit hold’em cash game where Doug Defends his blind, read the post and see how this master of the game gets huge value with his interesting line…
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How to Play in the Big Blind Versus Limps
In this post, we look at how to play from the Big Blind against limpers from the Small Blind…
There are going to be a couple of different types of players we will be combatting from this limped pot situation, so we have two plans for each of these players to share with you…
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New PokerStars Feature! All in Cash Out
There is a new feature added to the PokerStars Cash Game table… All-in Cash-Out option
This will allow players to cash out their equity in the pot when all-in at any stage of the pot whether it be pre-flop, on the flop or on the turn.
So you never have to get a bad beat again!
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A Look into the World of Over-Bets
In this post, we take a look at when players choose to make the Over-bet, this move can be used to max value or to apply maximum pressure as a bluff, balancing between using the move for both purposes makes it hard to know when to call when facing this move…
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Sit & Go Tips for Dominating the Tables
These single table tournaments are quick, fun and you can play a great deal of them if you are a grinder or learn how to play all types of tournament style poker if you are just learning, with early game and deep stacks to mid-game with ICM implications on the bubble kicking in to end game and heads up play… they are a great way to learn to play all forms of tournament poker.
So, in this post, we are going to run over some quick tips to help you on your path to playing these games.
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Bloating the Pot with a Bad Top Pair
In this post we are going to look at a pot where Dario Minieri takes a strange line with a value hand and turns it into a bluff on the flop, bloating the pot with a very mediocre hand…
We break down the action and review the hand in full…
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WhoisWho Battles on Live at the Bike
In this post, we are going to look at a hand from the Live at the Bike Poker stream where mysterious high stakes player WhoIsWho played a few out of the ordinary pots…
We review one against the Los Angeles GOAT Garrett Adelstein where WhoIsWho makes a few lesser-seen moves taking a wild line with this bluff…
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A Look at Some Tougher Pre-Flop Spots
In this post, we will look at some of the lesser talked about pre-flop spots we will run into whilst playing both tournament and cash game poker, we will want to review some hands like this so we know what we are going to do when we come up against these types of spots on the tables…
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Correct Nash Shove and Call in £100K High Roller
In this post, we wanted to look at a hand from the recently Triton High Roller £100K buy-in event that took place recently in London.
We have a perfect example of some great play here that might open some of your eyes to correct ranges for short-stacked spots in late position…
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Play the Turn Card like a Pro
The Turn is one of the most miss-played streets of action for many players, it can be a tough time to decide do we need to ditch our hand or shall we continue with it, especially when we are up against aggressive opponents and playing out of position.
In this post we look up some different examples of how Pro players play on the turn…
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Defending Against C-Bets
In this post, we are going to look at some tips for improving your game for playing against C-bets…
Many players play too tight and some players play too loose against bets on the flop from our opponent, so we have drafted up some advice for how to win more in these spots…
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Picking Our Bluff Candidates Wisely
In this post, we are going to take a look at which types of hands make the best bluffs.
We need to have bluffs in our range in order to have a well-balanced strategy and not only just be betting when we have a good hand, so this is a look at what hands are going to be some of our best bluffs to choose.
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