Poker Strategy

In this chapter, I give an outline of the changes I’ve made over the past three years and how they’ve helped me. If you wish, you can start reading at Chapter 1, or download the […]

Here I dive into the nitty-gritty of my new improved strategy. I spend an entire chapter on one vital topic: aggression – both using it, and facing it. If you wish, you can start reading […]

A poker tell is any involuntary behavior, physical cue, or timing pattern that gives you information about an opponent’s hand strength. In live poker, these signals are everywhere if you know what to look for, […]

A progressive knockout poker tournament, or PKO, is a format where half of each player’s buy-in funds a growing bounty on their head: when you eliminate a player, you pocket half their bounty in cash, […]

Pocket queens are always beautiful to look down at at the poker table, especially when the flop doesn’t provide any kings or aces. Even when you get to play them as an overpair, it’s still […]

Bluffing in poker means betting or raising with a hand unlikely to win at showdown, with the goal of making your opponents fold their better hands. I have spent years reviewing student hand histories, and […]

A value bet in poker is any bet made with the goal of getting called by an opponent holding a worse hand. I have seen players at every level leave significant money on the table […]

Rebuy poker tournaments allow players to purchase additional chips during a designated early period whenever their stack drops to or below the starting chip count. Unlike re-entry events, rebuys cost no additional rake, are played […]

A re-entry poker tournament is an event that allows eliminated players to buy back in as a completely new entrant, receiving a fresh chip stack and a new seat at the table. I have played […]

Bet sizing in poker is the skill of choosing how much to bet based on your range against your opponent’s range on the board texture in front of you, not on the absolute strength of […]

Short-stack poker in a tournament means playing with 20 big blinds or fewer, a situation where your entire strategic framework must shift from post-flop creativity to disciplined preflop decision-making. I have coached hundreds of students […]

A nit in poker is a player who voluntarily enters only 10 to 12 percent of hands, preferring premium holdings and folding to almost any pressure in marginal situations. I have reviewed hundreds of hand […]

This is a hand I played in a $3/$5 NLHE game that has a mandatory $10 straddle. It had some interesting features that made me bring it to the PokerCoaching Discord group.  Preflop Action – […]

A poker freezeout tournament is a format where every player receives one buy-in and plays until their chips are gone, with no rebuys or re-entries allowed. I have played, studied, and coached thousands of hands […]

A 3-bet in poker is the second raise made on a betting street, most commonly seen preflop when a player re-raises the initial raiser, representing a strong range that puts maximum pressure on the opener. […]

A calling station is a player who calls bets almost regardless of hand strength, rarely folds, and almost never bluffs, making them one of the most consistently profitable opponent types you will face at poker […]

Poker satellites are qualifying tournaments where the prize is a seat in a higher buy-in event rather than cash, meaning the key to your poker strategy is survival, not building the biggest stack. I have […]

Floating in poker means calling a flop bet with a weak hand, little to no showdown value, and the intention of bluffing on a later street after your opponent slows down. In my experience coaching […]

 LAG poker, short for loose-aggressive, describes a playing style where a player enters a wide range of hands preflop and plays them aggressively on every betting street through raises, re-raises, and multi-street barrels. In my […]

I’ve got another hand that came from the PokerCoaching cash game Discord channel. But in this case, it was one of my hands. Here’s a link to the entire discussion if you want to dive […]

MTT poker strategy is the set of adjustments that separate players who run deep in multi-table tournaments from those who bust early and walk away empty-handed. I have played and coached tournament poker for over […]