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• Winning Hands with a Middle Pair

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  When you’re holding a big pocket pair, drawing is a little easier since you know the payoff will be big assuming your hand hits.  Even if the board doesn’t give you a set, you’re still in pretty good shape with a high pair.  However, holding a middle pocket pair is a different story since you are left with ...
  4 days ago

• What to do After the Bubble Bursts

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  Let’s say you’ve just made it through a good size field to get to the money. Now let’s say you’re a medium stack. How should you play that stack? Under what circumstances should you click your chips to the middle of the table? First thing’s first – congratulations. Making the money is a player’s goal ...
  5 days ago

• Calculating Your Poker Equity

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  Pot odds are certainly very useful in poker since they give players a good idea of whether or not they should call.  However, pot odds only get you so far because you also have to know what your chances are of winning a hand; this is where equity comes in.  Here is a very simple way to calculate your equity, and ...
  5 days ago

• How Pocket Aces play in Different Games

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  If you’re like most of the poker world then you spend a lot of time playing Texas Hold’em.  And like most of the poker world, you probably light up when you have pocket aces in a Hold’em game.  However, pocket aces don’t play as big of a part in other poker variations.  So it is definitely worth taking a ...
  1 week ago

• The Beauty of Online Poker

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  Online poker is a beautiful game. You can sit in your living room and win or lose lots of money in a single evening. It’s all the fun of poker in a casino or with friends without the annoyance of having to taste fresh air at any point in time. Also, you can play in your underwear. Generally, casinos frown upon such ...
  2 weeks ago

• Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker - Part 2 of 3

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  Squeezing a profit out of marginal situations is what winning poker comes down to. The object is not to win every hand played, but to win every hand you play. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose: Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Playing Flush Draws in Hold’em

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  The flush draw is one of the most exciting drawing hands you can get in Hold’em.  That’s because hitting a flush could potentially give you a nut hand, and allow you to take down a huge pot.  However, just because you’ve got a flush draw doesn’t mean you should play it every time.  You have to look at a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Omaha Hands that can Trick You

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  Those who play a lot of Omaha know that it can be a very risky game.  After all, there will be plenty of times when you’re forced to put a lot of your money into the pot without knowing if you will get a made hand or not.  Of course this is where the art of knowing which draws to chase and which ones to avoid ...
  3 weeks ago

• To Slow Play or Not to Slow Play: Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker – Part 1 of 3

  
  blabstr.com — Authority: 163
  Winning poker comes down to being able to squeeze a profit out of marginal situations. The object is not to win every hand played, but to win every hand you play. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose. Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made ...
  3 weeks ago

• Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker: The Slow Play - Part 1 of 3

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  Winning poker comes down to squeezing profit out of marginal situations. The object is not to win every hand played, but to win every hand you play. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose: Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made to maximize ...
  3 weeks ago

• Playing Multi-way Pots

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  A lot of strategy pieces like to focus on what to do when you’re one-on-one with an opponent.  And this is certainly very useful since you’ll find yourself in a lot of situations where you’re pitted against one person.  However, the majority of the time you will be dealing with several players in multi-way ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Slow Play: Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker – Part 1 of 3

  
  Content for Reprint Blog — Authority: 153
  Winning poker comes down to being able to squeeze a profit out of marginal situations. The object is to win every hand you play, not to win every hand played. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose. Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made to ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Slow Play: Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker – Part 1 of 3

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 149
  Winning poker comes down to being able to squeeze a profit out of marginal situations. The object is not to win every hand played, but to win every hand you play. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose. Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made ...
  4 weeks ago

• Going All-in with the Short Stack

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  If you have the biggest stack and are in command of a table, it’s very easy to be aggressive with big bets and raises.  After all, you’re in no real danger of being pushed out of the tournament, and you have the chips to bully other people on the table. However, things are quite different when you are the short ...
  4 weeks ago

• All About Face and Body Tells in Texas Hold’em Poker - Part 3 of 4

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  “I see you. Your eyes. Your hands. Your chips. Everything. So I don’t need to see your cards.” - Poker Pro Howard Lederer on a Commercial for Poker Site FullTilt.NET When one faces a confrontational situation, the fight or flight response is human nature. Since poker is often a confrontational endeavor, ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Play When It’s Heads-Up in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  The game of Hold’em changes once you get to heads-up play. You can make a few big mistakes in limit Hold’em and, it sometimes works in your favor if you appear to be a loose player, but a series of small mistakes can end the game early. Constant small misreads of your opponent are far more likely to end your ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Play Premium Starting Hands in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  “In order to win consistently at poker, you need to understand which hands are profitable to play and which aren’t.” - Poker Author Mike Caro I have seen the types of starting hands played change in the last five years with the predominance of televised poker, which is not a good thing and leads to more losing ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Importance of Table Position to Betting in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  PokerGrind.net Poker Blog — Authority:
  "Holdem is a lot like making love: Position is everything." - WPT Host Vince van Patten
  4 weeks ago

• Playing with a Poker Partner

  
  Carbon Poker Blog — Authority: 131
  When we hear of the concept of playing poker with a partner, the word cheating immediately comes to mind.  That’s because some people who play with a partner engage in the practice of colluding.  But the truth is that you can have a partner in poker without cheating; you just have to know all of the details of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Texas Hold’em Poker: Tells

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 145
  “Poker, like a lot of things in life, is all about strategy. Sometimes it pays to act weak when you are in a position of strength.” - Poker Professional Daniel Negreanu in a Commercial for Poker Site FullTilt.NET Tells are subconscious actions by a player that may give an observant person an insight into that ...
  5 weeks ago

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