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Easy Adjustments to Crush Rebuy Poker Tournaments
Easy Adjustments to Crush Rebuy Poker Tournaments

While rebuy poker tournaments have become somewhat rare in the live poker arena, online poker sites still offer plenty of rebuy MTTs these days. The format used to be extremely liked up to a few …

Easy Adjustments to Crush Rebuy Poker Tournaments

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Bet Sizing Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Player
March 8, 2024 11 min read

Bet Sizing Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Player

Being a well-rounded poker player means mastering many different skills that allow you to navigate the streets and outsmart your opponents. Bet sizing is definitely one of the most important ones and one that many …

Bet Sizing Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Player

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Poker ICM Considerations – Why Independent Chip Model Matters In Tournaments
March 7, 2024 9 min read

Poker ICM Considerations – Why Independent Chip Model Matters In Tournaments

If you have spent most of your time at the poker tables playing cash games, you have probably never had to think about how much value you were winning or losing by making certain plays. …

Poker ICM Considerations – Why Independent Chip Model Matters In Tournaments

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Best Short Stack Strategy Tips For Winning More Tournaments
February 27, 2024 11 min read

Best Short Stack Strategy Tips For Winning More Tournaments

Cash game players are used to playing with hundreds of big blinds in their stacks, but playing deep stacked is a luxury that MTT players often can’t afford. In fact, if you are a tournament …

Best Short Stack Strategy Tips For Winning More Tournaments

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Razz Poker Rules – Master the Basics
February 27, 2024 12 min read

Razz Poker Rules – Master the Basics

While Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha may be the two most popular poker variations these days, they are certainly not the only ones you will find in live and online poker rooms around the …

Razz Poker Rules – Master the Basics

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How to Crush Nits in Your Poker Games
February 24, 2024 9 min read

How to Crush Nits in Your Poker Games

There used to be a time when poker nits were able to dominate the game and win big at the poker tables, much thanks to the generally low level of play across the board. As …

How to Crush Nits in Your Poker Games

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7 Card Stud Poker Rules – Master the Basics
February 23, 2024 11 min read

7 Card Stud Poker Rules – Master the Basics

One of the oldest poker games around, 7 Card Stud is a game on which some of the greatest players of all time built their careers and their names.  A somewhat simpler form of poker …

7 Card Stud Poker Rules – Master the Basics

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Cash Game Poker Hand Review: It matters how you get broke
February 13, 2024 8 min read

Cash Game Poker Hand Review: It matters how you get broke

This is a hand I played in a $3/$5 NLHE game that has a mandatory $10 straddle. It had some interesting features that made me bring it to the PokerCoaching Discord group.  Preflop Action – …

Cash Game Poker Hand Review: It matters how you get broke

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Beat Freezeout Poker Tournaments with Proper Adjustments
February 9, 2024 11 min read

Beat Freezeout Poker Tournaments with Proper Adjustments

Both live and online poker operators these days offer dozens of different tournament formats like PKOs or re-buy, each offering a slightly different approach to the game. Back in the day, however, freezeout poker tournaments …

Beat Freezeout Poker Tournaments with Proper Adjustments

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Jonathan Little Wins Big at PokerGO Cup
February 4, 2024 11 min read

Jonathan Little Wins Big at PokerGO Cup

Every year, the PokerGO Cup attracts some of the best poker players in the world to PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. This year was no different, as not only were the likes of Daniel Negreanu, …

Jonathan Little Wins Big at PokerGO Cup

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Master the fundamentals.

How to Play Poker: Winning Strategy for Beginners

Get This FREE 19 Video Course from 2-time WPT Champion, Jonathan Little! Basic rules and hand rankings for new players. – Preflop strategy including when to raise, call and 3-bet. – How to play the flop, turn, and river – Learn when and how much to bet – Tips for tournament adjustments – Keys to bankroll management

Heed the Voice
March 14, 2024 5 min read

Heed the Voice

When the voice speaks, heed it. The opinionless voice. The quiet voice. The voice of inner wisdom. The voice that knows when it’s time to quit, or change seats, or add on, etc. The voice …

Heed the Voice

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The First Time I Played Poker for Money
March 5, 2024 5 min read

The First Time I Played Poker for Money

In 1972, the rock world was dizzy with euphoria after Led Zep IV came out, and I was dizzy from smoking pot for the first time, in the back seat of a parked car. The …

The First Time I Played Poker for Money

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Cardplayer Lifestyle to host Mixed Game Festival VII in Las Vegas
February 15, 2024 5 min read

Cardplayer Lifestyle to host Mixed Game Festival VII in Las Vegas

In less than two weeks, Cardplayer Lifestyle and founder Robbie Strazynski will return to Resorts World in Las Vegas to host Mixed Game Festival VII. While PokerCoaching.com blog readers will be familiar with past Mixed …

Cardplayer Lifestyle to host Mixed Game Festival VII in Las Vegas

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Bad Beats In Poker: Leave Negative Results Behind
September 26, 2023 8 min read

Bad Beats In Poker: Leave Negative Results Behind

This is the first of many articles that will draw from the PokerCoaching Discord server.  If you haven’t spent any time there, I encourage you to come visit us. There are a lot of cool …

Bad Beats In Poker: Leave Negative Results Behind

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PokerCoaching Coaches Crush At PokerGO Cup
January 23, 2023 12 min read

PokerCoaching Coaches Crush At PokerGO Cup

At PokerGO Studios within the luxurious Aria Hotel & Casino, some of poker’s best players gathered to compete for this year’s PokerGO Cup. Always a popular spectacle amongst poker fans, this year’s PokerGO Cup had …

PokerCoaching Coaches Crush At PokerGO Cup

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The Top 10 Places To Play Poker In 2023
January 20, 2023 25 min read

The Top 10 Places To Play Poker In 2023

One of the beautiful things about the game of poker is that it is played worldwide. I have been fortunate to travel around the world and compete in poker tournaments in an assortment of different …

The Top 10 Places To Play Poker In 2023

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Short Stack Ninja Quiz
March 13, 2024 2 min read

Short Stack Ninja Quiz

Are you a Short Stack Ninja? See how you do in our latest quiz! If you get a 10/10, you are a crusher! The BTN raises to 2bb and the SB folds. Should you call …

Short Stack Ninja Quiz

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Quiz: Poker Math that Even Pro’s Get Wrong!
February 6, 2024 2 min read

Quiz: Poker Math that Even Pro’s Get Wrong!

Are you Ready to Test Your Poker Math Skills? See how you do in our latest quiz! If you get a 10/10, you are a crusher! You are on the river and the pot is …

Quiz: Poker Math that Even Pro’s Get Wrong!

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Quiz: How To Play Draws
November 4, 2023 3 min read

Quiz: How To Play Draws

Are you Ready to Test Your Poker Skills? See how you do in our latest quiz! If you get a 10/10, you are a crusher!

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Quiz: Live Cash Game IQ
September 25, 2023 3 min read

Quiz: Live Cash Game IQ

Do you have what it takes to crush live cash games? Try our quiz and see how well you exploit your opponents!

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Quiz: Have You Mastered The Fundamentals
September 24, 2023 2 min read

Quiz: Have You Mastered The Fundamentals

Do you understand the poker fundamentals like pot odds, counting combos, bet sizing, stack to pot ratios, minimum defense frequencies and more?

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Poker Challenge: Prove Your Ability to Run Deep in Poker Tournaments
August 31, 2023 7 min read

Poker Challenge: Prove Your Ability to Run Deep in Poker Tournaments

Poker tournaments are currently booming in the United States and around the world! Whether you are a grinder down in Texas or an online pro hailing from Europe, every month more tournament series are being …

Poker Challenge: Prove Your Ability to Run Deep in Poker Tournaments

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