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A double barrel bluff with nothing is one of the scariest plays in poker, and also one of the most profitable when the spot is right. When you are the preflop raiser who called a […]

The middle stages of a poker tournament are where fields get separated. Early survival play stops working. Short-stack shove-fold is not quite the right framework either. You are caught between needing to accumulate chips and […]

Most players are too passive when they are out of position. They check, they give up the initiative, and they let the in-position player run them over on boards that actually favor the out-of-position raiser. […]

The early levels of a poker tournament are not just a warm-up. They are where you build the stack that everything else runs on. Players who treat the early stages as low stakes — playing […]

Bluffing out of position is harder than bluffing in position, because you have to act first on every street and you cannot see what your opponent does before committing chips. That forces you to check […]

The small blind is the worst position at the poker table. You are forced to put money in before the cards are dealt, and then you play every postflop street out of position against everyone […]

A pair with an open-ended straight draw feels like a hand that wants to bet, bet, bet. Out of position against a caller, though, the most profitable line is often more patient and more thoughtful. […]

Most players decide on a bet size by looking at the pot, picking a number that feels right, and moving on. They do the same on the next street. And the next. Then they arrive […]

Suited connectors are some of the most profitable and most misplayed hands in poker. When they hit, they win huge pots, but most of the time they whiff and leave you holding a weak draw […]