So as you can see, this isn’t quite as cut and dried as a lot of newer players would prefer, and just like everything else in poker, a lot of what you do comes down to how your opponents play. So that brings us to another consideration, which is that the better your opponents, the tighter you are going to want to play, and the weaker they are, the more hands you can play from all positions.

If  [read more →]

One of the reasons why paying attention to charts too much is that they don’t really take into account the varying circumstances at a table, which have to do with how the people at your table, and particularly those who act after you do, tend to play. So in Part 1 we spoke about playing tighter in situations where there are more people at the table and more people to act after you. So we can throw in  [read more →]

What hands to play is one of the big questions that newer players wonder about, and it’s also something that many experienced players could benefit from re-evaluating as well. It used to be that players would be given charts by various poker books out there and look to use those as a guide of sorts, although it’s much better to look to understand the concepts behind the rationale here, which is what I’m going to look to introduce you  [read more →]