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Short Stack vs. Raise: How to Adjust Your Preflop Strategy in MTTs
Short Stack vs. Raise: How to Adjust Your Preflop Strategy in MTTs

Most players know the basics of short-stack play and defaults to showing or folding, but when someone raises in front of you, the strategy becomes more layered than that. Your correct response to a preflop […]

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Short Stack vs. Raise: How to Adjust Your Preflop Strategy in MTTs
April 15, 2026 10 min

Short Stack vs. Raise: How to Adjust Your Preflop Strategy in MTTs

Most players know the basics of short-stack play and defaults to showing or folding, but when someone raises in front of you, the strategy becomes more layered than that. Your correct response to a preflop […]

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Middle Pair Poker Strategy with Q8s: BTN vs BB in a 100bb Cash Game
April 10, 2026 8 min

Middle Pair Poker Strategy with Q8s: BTN vs BB in a 100bb Cash Game

Middle pair poker strategy on connected, high-card boards forces you to make decisions that feel counterintuitive. You have a real hand, something too strong to automatically fold, but the board texture and the action in […]

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ICM Strategy After the Bubble: How to Play Near the Final Table
April 7, 2026 9 min

ICM Strategy After the Bubble: How to Play Near the Final Table

Most players understand that ICM pressure is essential at the money bubble. What few players recognize is that it peaks as the final table approaches. Get this wrong, and you will be making decisions that […]

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Two Pair Poker Strategy with A9s: HJ vs BB in a 100bb Cash Game
April 2, 2026 6 min

Two Pair Poker Strategy with A9s: HJ vs BB in a 100bb Cash Game

Two pair poker strategy on wet, draw-heavy boards comes down to one question: how do you build the pot when your hand is strong but vulnerable? In a cash game where your opponent’s range is […]

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Master Short Stack Postflop Strategy: Top 5 Easy Adjustments
March 31, 2026 7 min

Master Short Stack Postflop Strategy: Top 5 Easy Adjustments

Most players treat short-stack play the same way they do in 100bb games. Play tight, keep it simple, hope for the best. That instinct is understandable, but it misses what is actually happening. Short stack […]

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Realistic Poker Training: How PeakGTO’s New Chip Mode Changes the Way You Practice
March 26, 2026 3 min

Realistic Poker Training: How PeakGTO’s New Chip Mode Changes the Way You Practice

The latest PeakGTO update is live, and it brings one of the most requested realistic poker training features to the platform: Chip Mode. Alongside that, the entire trainer experience has been overhauled with new visuals, […]

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Hero’s Journey: Two Players Take on the $100K Challenge
March 20, 2026 4 min

Hero’s Journey: Two Players Take on the $100K Challenge

Many small-stakes players struggle to move up to higher buy-ins. The competition gets tougher, mistakes become more costly, and the strategies that worked at lower levels don’t always hold up. That’s exactly the transition PokerCoaching […]

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Overbet Bluff 87s BB vs CO in a 100bb Cash Game
March 19, 2026 6 min

Overbet Bluff 87s BB vs CO in a 100bb Cash Game

When the preflop raiser checks back the flop in a single-raised cash game pot, the turn dynamic resets completely. The check-back reveals that the raiser declined to continue with a substantial portion of their range, […]

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Risk Premium in Tournaments: The ICM Concept Players Miss
March 10, 2026 6 min

Risk Premium in Tournaments: The ICM Concept Players Miss

Risk premium is one of the most important concepts in tournament poker. It describes the extra equity you need to call an all-in in poker tournaments because payout structures make losing chips more costly than […]

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