Cash Games

Of all the player types you may find at poker tables, calling stations should definitely be your favorites, as they are both very profitable and very easy to play against.  In this guide, I will […]

Playing fundamentally good strategy is the secret to success in the game, and mastering basics like your preflop ranges and c-bet situations is the first thing you should learn. However, more advanced plays like floats […]

The loose-aggressive (LAG) poker playing style is one of the most complex in the game. Depending on how well one plays it, it can lead to great success or massive failure.  Many of the world’s best […]

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 […]

Someone once said that poker is a game that takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master, and those words could hardly be truer, as poker is constantly evolving. Unlike many other games […]

Cash game poker is considered by many to be one of the purest forms of the game, as it enforces deep stack play and allows you to play every hand in isolation, unlike tournament poker. […]

Poker EV, or expected value, is one of the most commonly used terms in modern poker theory. When making a difficult decision at the poker table, the best players look to EV to help them […]

There is more than one way to win a hand of poker, and while making the nuts is fun, seeing your opponent muck their cards when you are bluffing is an even better feeling. The […]

It’s long been said that poker is a game that takes a day to learn and a lifetime to master, and it’s one of the hardest truths about the game. If you are here, you […]

Here’s another hand from the PokerCoaching Discord. Our hero, Matt, is in a $5/$5 no-limit hold’em cash game in the Los Angeles area and is delighted to find K♥K♦UTG7 (traditionally called “UTG+1” – there are […]

The game revolves greatly around mathematics, and the concepts you need to be good at differ from very simple to fairly advanced. Counting outs in poker is probably the simplest of them all.  It literally […]

There used to be a time when poker players relied on their gut feeling and life tells more than anything else, but that time is certainly past. While such things still play a role in […]

Implied odds are one of those concepts that you often hear being thrown around in poker conversations but that many players don’t fully understand. In fact, it could be said that a vast majority of […]

Poker position is one of the most crucial concepts in poker, yet some players often overlook it. You will often see inexperienced poker players limp in, call raises, and raise themselves from random positions at […]

Over the last couple of years, GTO Poker, which stands for “game theory optimal,” has become one of the most popular terms in the game. Those who understand the fundamentals of GTO poker often mistake […]

Poker is a game of mathematics, regardless of what anyone will tell you, and pot odds are one of the most important concepts of poker rules and strategies. Many poker players learn how to calculate […]

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 […]

In the first half of this two-part series, I talked about the joys and dangers of Double Board PLO Bomb Pots (“DBPLOBP”). One of the reasons I broke this into two parts was so that […]

Vanilla ice cream is a fine thing. Why, some people go their whole lives choosing that flavor at every opportunity, despite dozens – perhaps hundreds – of other options.  I presume the subset of vanilla-lovers […]

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 […]

In the modern era of poker, it is quite common to come across poker players who live and die by Game Theory Optimal (GTO) poker strategies. GTO poker is certainly worth studying if you want […]