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Matt Affleck, an online poker force since 2009, offers hand analysis and poker strategy through live webinars, alongside live play in the US.

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Poker Tournament Strategy: Pocket Jacks In The WSOP Main Event
April 30, 2024 4 min read

Poker Tournament Strategy: Pocket Jacks In The WSOP Main Event

There are poker players you will come across who speak adamantly about how they cannot stand playing pocket jacks. Often their uneasiness with fish hooks comes from a lack of understanding on how to play […]

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How To Study Preflop Ranges And Poker Strategies
November 18, 2022 8 min read

How To Study Preflop Ranges And Poker Strategies

If any of my students happen to be reading, they know what a stickler I am when it comes to preflop ranges. Preflop is the most important street in all of poker, as you are […]

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How To Play Pocket Aces On A Monotone Board
September 2, 2022 4 min read

How To Play Pocket Aces On A Monotone Board

One of the best things you can do as a poker player is study the hands that put you in tough spots. While we would all like to be dealt pocket aces every hand, it […]

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Poker Tips: Matt Affleck Breaks Down How To Play Draws
August 24, 2022 4 min read

Poker Tips: Matt Affleck Breaks Down How To Play Draws

Flopping one draw is fantastic, but flopping two draws provides a poker player with endless possibilities. In this poker hand, PokerCoaching.com coach Matt Affleck revisits a hand he played at the Venetian in Las Vegas. […]

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My Pocket Aces In The 2010 Main Event
May 18, 2022 6 min read

My Pocket Aces In The 2010 Main Event

Today I am going to write about one of the more famous hands in poker. We will look back at my famous hand 12 years later and see what decisions I may have changed. I […]

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Trusting The Poker Process
May 16, 2022 6 min read

Trusting The Poker Process

For today’s, article I want to write about the process and journey of a poker player. Being a poker player, or at least a successful, high-level one, involves a process outside just sitting down at […]

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Gut Instinct At The Poker Table
May 11, 2022 3 min read

Gut Instinct At The Poker Table

Gut instincts are often misunderstood, especially by weak poker players and those who are superstitious. I’ll preface this article by stating I am no psychologist and everything I write today is from my experience and […]

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Become A Poker Equity Expert
May 9, 2022 4 min read

Become A Poker Equity Expert

I want to discuss three relating poker terms that often get mixed up and misused by players. We will be discussing the relationship between equity, expected value, and equity realization. Equity is the most common […]

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Choosing Hands To Three-Bet Bluff With
May 4, 2022 4 min read

Choosing Hands To Three-Bet Bluff With

Choosing the correct poker hands to three-bet bluff with can be very difficult. Many professionals of all levels fail to study enough and know the correct hands to bluff with in certain situations. Mistakes that […]

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Becoming A Winning Poker Player
May 2, 2022 5 min read

Becoming A Winning Poker Player

In today’s article, I want to talk about what it takes to become a winning poker player in today’s environment. With solvers, GTO strategy and other complex systems, it can be as confusing as ever […]

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Defending The Big Blind In Multi-Way Pots
April 27, 2022 5 min read

Defending The Big Blind In Multi-Way Pots

One of the biggest mistakes that I see in weak players is that they defend their big blind too wide in multi-way pots. In today’s article, I want to discuss adjustments that need to be […]

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When To Use The Donk Bet
April 25, 2022 6 min read

When To Use The Donk Bet

I recently asked for topics to write about on Twitter and had a couple questions regarding donk betting. Followers were interested in hearing when is the correct time to donk bet and what strategies to […]

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How To Maintain Confidence In Poker
April 20, 2022 5 min read

How To Maintain Confidence In Poker

Today we will talk about a mental issue that I see in a lot of poker players, including myself. The issue in question is the failure to realize that the objective of this game is […]

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3 Errors Made By Bad Poker Tournament Players
April 18, 2022 5 min read

3 Errors Made By Bad Poker Tournament Players

In today’s article we are going to discuss three of the typical mistakes I see from weak tournament players. The three mistakes we will discuss are over continuation betting (c-betting) on the flop, playing too […]

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Building Chip Stacks Early In Poker Tournaments
April 11, 2022 4 min read

Building Chip Stacks Early In Poker Tournaments

I am often asked what are the strategies that pros use to build big stacks early on in tournaments. Many players believe that it is some secret strategy that pros use to build huge stacks […]

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Continuation Betting 101
April 4, 2022 5 min read

Continuation Betting 101

Continuation betting (or c-betting) is one of the core fundamentals of No-Limit Hold’em. It is however one of the most misunderstood aspects of the game. Many players simply do not understand the reason for the […]

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Impulse Plays At The Poker Table
March 23, 2022 4 min read

Impulse Plays At The Poker Table

Today I am going to talk about one of the mental issues that I am working the hardest on in my poker play, impulse plays. Impulse plays are hard to describe, some may call them […]

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How to Effectively Review a Hand History
March 14, 2022 4 min read

How to Effectively Review a Hand History

After a deep run in a tournament, it is common practice to do a hand history review of the tournament. Essentially, this is a check-up on your game to find any major leak and spend […]

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If I Had A $1,000 Bankroll
March 9, 2022 4 min read

If I Had A $1,000 Bankroll

Today’s article comes from a Twitter question asked by one of my followers. This player wanted advice on how to build a bankroll from $1,000. This is a common question as this is a reasonable […]

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Early Position Bets Facing The Big Blind
February 28, 2022 5 min read

Early Position Bets Facing The Big Blind

As the pre-flop aggressor, one of the natural follow-ups is to continuation bet the flop. The continuation bet is one of the first strategies that we learned coming up in poker during the “Moneymaker Boom”. […]

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How Coaching Helps Me As A Player
February 21, 2022 4 min read

How Coaching Helps Me As A Player

Between PokerCoaching.com and my 1 on 1 private clients, I have dedicated a good portion of my time to coaching. I don’t think it is a coincidence that I have seen an uptick in my […]

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