Author name: Jonathan Little

Tournament poker has been at the height of its popularity in the last couple of years, with both online and live tournaments setting attendance records and proving that the game is alive and well. For […]

Poker is always a game of strategy, but the variety of plays available with a shallow stack is quite limited compared to advanced options with deeper stacks. While playing deep stack is mostly reserved for […]

The types of poker players fall into four core categories defined by two axes: how many hands they play (tight or loose) and how aggressively they play those hands (passive or aggressive). Every player at […]

Cash game poker strategy differs from tournament strategy in one fundamental way: every chip has a direct cash value, you can buy in and leave at any time, and no blind escalation forces action. That […]

EV in poker, or expected value, is the average profit or loss of any decision over the long run. A call with positive EV makes money over thousands of repetitions even when it loses in […]

Fold equity is the additional equity you gain when your opponent folds in response to a bet or raise. It is calculated by multiplying your opponent’s equity by the probability they fold: if your opponent […]

Poker strategy tips separate consistent winners from players who break even for years, and the gap almost always comes down to the same handful of mistakes. I have reviewed tens of thousands of student hands […]

Poker outs are the cards remaining in the deck that will improve your hand to a likely winner. When you hold a flush draw on the flop, for example, nine hearts are still out there. […]

Poker solvers are software tools that calculate GTO (game theory optimal) solutions for specific hand scenarios, telling you which hands to bet, check, or fold, and at what frequency, to achieve a perfectly balanced, unexploitable […]

Implied odds in poker represent the money you expect to win on future streets if you hit your draw, factored in alongside the pot odds you are getting right now. When pot odds alone do […]

Poker positions determine the order in which you act during a hand, and that order is the single biggest structural advantage you can have at the table. Players who act last collect more information, control […]

GTO poker, short for game theory optimal, is a mathematically balanced strategy designed to make your play unexploitable. No matter what your opponents do against a true GTO strategy, they cannot profit. They can only […]

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Pot odds are the ratio of the current pot size to the cost of a call, expressed as a percentage of equity you need to make calling mathematically correct. When the pot offers 3:1 and […]

The biggest challenge players face when learning how to play poker is figuring out what hand their opponent is holding. While many players focus on guessing the exact two cards their opponent has, poker pros […]

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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When I discuss the game of poker with people who do not play regularly, often I will hear them say “I would be an awful poker player, I’m terrible at lying!” or “I’m no good […]

It may be easy to highlight the common bad habits that make fish and mis-regs what they are, but what are the good poker habits that winning poker players use to succeed? Or a better […]

In the modern era of poker, the utilization of solvers is a must if you want to move up stakes and eventually become a true crusher. While poker has essentially been “solved” by solvers and […]

As soon as Hustler Casino Live (HCL) owners Ryan Feldman and Nik Vertucci announced that the popular live-streamed poker production would be hosting a Million Dollar Cash Game, poker fans immediately began speculating on whether […]