Poker Strategy

Gutshot straight draws, also known as inside straight draws, are among the least valuable drawing hands in poker. Yet, they are also a lot more common than other draws and are high in the poker […]

While most poker players are focused on playing either poker tournaments or cash games, heads-up poker is often considered the purest game by the top professionals.  The term heads-up refers to a game played between […]

In tournament poker, mastering preflop tournament fundamentals is key to success. While postflop decisions often get more attention, your preflop choices set the stage for every hand, shaping your chances of going deep. This blog […]

Beating a high-stakes poker player takes a balanced approach, an understanding of advanced GTO poker concepts of the game, and a lot of dedication and effort. Beating players in poker home games, however, takes a […]

While No Limit Texas Hold’em allows players to make bets anytime the action is on them, the game follows a certain flow in most situations, with the preflop aggressor usually being the one making the […]

Poker is a game that takes a day to learn but a lifetime to master. This adage about poker could hardly be truer, as poker truly is a simple game at first sight but a […]

Once you have learned how to play poker, one of the first things you’ll notice about online poker is that it has brought about dozens of different game formats, but few have been as popular […]

You do participate in the PokerCoaching Discord server, don’t you? If not, you’re missing out on an excellent poker learning community. Maybe your thing is tournaments – we’ve got a channel just for you. If […]

If you have known how to play poker long enough, you have come across stretches of bad luck that seem impossible, and that is twice as true when it comes to online poker. If you have […]

If you have been watching high-stakes poker games in recent years, you have probably seen some very good players make some very strange calls on flops and turns in many hands. Poker hands that players […]

Continuation bet (also known as a c-betting in poker) is one of the most common plays you will encounter in modern poker, and it is one that you will have to apply in a large […]

Poker is a game with a lot of complexity and many strategies that can be used to come out on top, but they all start with some basic math. Above all things, understanding how poker […]

Using stats in online poker used to be considered one of the most important elements of a good poker strategy, as professional players relied heavily on stats for many years.  This has changed more recently, […]

The use of player statistics in online poker may not be as popular as it once was, but it is still an important tool the best poker players know how to use. When it comes […]

Poker is a game whose complexity changes depending on the way you look at it. You can play poker at the most basic level and never think about the complexities of the game, or you […]

Being aggressive and punishing passive and weak play is the staple of any solid poker strategy. One play that fits perfectly into such an aggressive strategy is the squeeze play, which can be utilized with […]

If you thought the game of poker could be played in many different variations because of the various games you saw at WSOP, you were right. However, there are far more different poker games out […]

In many ways, online poker is a game of its own compared to live poker, and the ability to accumulate stats on our opponents is one of the big reasons why.  While some online poker […]

Whenever you watch one of the high-stakes game shows on the internet, you will hear “the straddle is on” quite often, but you might not quite understand what it means.  Poker straddles in Texas Holdem […]

If you have been playing poker over the last decade and learning the game from pretty much any source, you have probably been made aware of the fact that open raises are almost always better […]

Texas Hold’em is a relatively simple game at first sight, and it all starts with your preflop cards, whose proper selection will set you up for the rest of the hand.  Playing too many starting […]