Author name: Jonathan Little

If you have spent any serious time playing online poker, you have probably made a missclick at some point. I know I have. Even the most focused players occasionally click the wrong button, especially when […]

Texas Hold’em tournaments are the most exciting format in the game, and also the most unforgiving. I have coached thousands of tournament players over the years, and the same costly errors come up again and […]

Poker chips come in standard colors that are recognized in casinos around the world. Whether you walk into a poker room in Las Vegas, a cardroom in Europe, or sit down at a friend’s home […]

Cash game poker is the most unforgiving format in poker. Unlike tournaments, there is no rebuy period to absorb mistakes. Every bad decision costs you real money. In my experience coaching thousands of players, the […]

Poker is the name of an entire family of card games. Texas Hold’em is one specific game within that family. The two terms are not synonyms, even though most recreational players use them as if […]

Spin and Go poker tournaments are three-player hyper-turbo sit-and-gos with a randomly determined prize pool that can multiply your buy-in anywhere from 2x to thousands of times its value. I have studied this format extensively […]

Rake in poker is the commission the house takes from every cash game pot or tournament buy-in, typically ranging from 2.5% to 10% of the pot in cash games, capped at a preset maximum. It […]

Vanessa Selbst is widely considered the best female poker player of all time – the only woman ever to hold the number one ranking on the Global Poker Index, with three WSOP bracelets and nearly […]

 Phil Ivey is widely considered the best poker player of all time – a player who has dominated cash games, tournaments, and mixed games at the highest stakes for more than two decades, winning 11 […]

A kicker in poker is a side card that does not determine the rank of your hand but breaks the tie when two players have the same hand. In Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, […]

Online poker is not rigged on regulated sites: every major poker platform uses a certified random number generator audited by independent agencies, and no operator has ever been proven to have tampered with one despite […]

Ghosting in Texas Hold’em Poker is a form of cheating that occurs when a more skilled player takes over another player’s account during a tournament or coaches a player through hands in real time while […]

Minimum defense frequency (MDF) is the minimum percentage of your range you must continue with, by calling or raising: when facing a bet, ensuring your opponent cannot profit by bluffing indiscriminately. Against a half-pot bet, […]

Take this 10 question quiz to test your knowledge of GTO Poker! True or False: Solvers will sometimes sacrifice the EV of a specific hand to strengthen your overall strategy. I.e. Not raising a hand […]

An ante in poker is a mandatory bet posted by every player at the table before the cards are dealt, separate from the blinds. Unlike the small blind and big blind, which only two players […]

A c-bet in poker is a flop bet made by the preflop aggressor, regardless of whether the flop improved their hand. The name comes from the idea that you are continuing the aggression you showed […]

Poker is officially recognized as a mind sport by the International Mind Sports Association, putting it in the same category as chess, bridge, and Go. Whether you go further and call it a full sport […]

Mystery bounty poker tournaments award a random cash prize every time you eliminate an opponent during the bounty phase, with prizes ranging from a fraction of the buy-in to amounts worth thousands of times what […]

Poker combinations, also called combos, are the exact number of different ways a specific starting hand can be made from a 52-card deck. Every pocket pair has 6 possible combinations. Every suited hand has 4. […]

VPIP stands for voluntarily put $ in pot, and it measures the percentage of hands in which a player voluntarily enters the pot before the flop. VPIP is the most important stat in any HUD, […]

PFR stands for pre-flop raise, and it measures the percentage of hands in which a player raises before the flop. Of all the poker stats available in a poker HUD, PFR is the one I […]