Poker Strategy
One Year of Great Poker Results – Introduction
Welcome to my e-book, “One Year of Great Poker Results.” This document describes my journey to becoming a winning live $5/10 no-limit hold’em player. The entire e-book is over 9,000 words, so PokerCoaching is serializing …
One Year of Great Poker Results – Overview
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 …
One Year of Great Poker Results – Aggression
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 …
Top 7 Live Poker Tells You Need to Know
While many modern players focus heavily on mastering betting frequencies and sizes on different board textures and mimicking poker solvers in other ways, old-school players were focused almost entirely on making reads, and finding tells …
Why You Should Avoid Slow Rolling in Poker
If you first encountered poker from movies like James Bond, there is a good chance that some of the things you saw on screen were wildly unethical but presented in a good light by the …
Jonathan Little Explains How To Play Pocket Queens
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 – How to Pick the Right Spots
Getting dealt the best cards is the simplest way to win at poker, but with up to nine players at the table, holding the best hand is not always possible. For that reason, players must master …
How to Pick the Best Spots for Value Betting in Poker
The very best players in the game have a wide range of plays and skills at their disposal, but some come into play more often than others. Value betting is certainly at the very top …
Learn What Are Re-Entry Tournaments and How To Play Them
Building off the concept of rebuy events, re-entry poker tournaments have been around for quite a few years now, and it definitely looks like they are here to stay. The consensus among both recreational and …
Bet Sizing Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Player
Being a well-rounded poker player means mastering many different skills that allow you to navigate the streets and outsmart your opponents. Bet sizing is definitely one of the most important ones and one that many …
Bet Sizing Tips That Will Instantly Make You a Better Player
Poker ICM – Why Independent Chip Model Matters In Tournaments
If you have spent most of your time at the poker tables playing cash games, you have probably never had to think about how much value you were winning or losing by making certain plays. …
Poker ICM – Why Independent Chip Model Matters In Tournaments
Best Short Stack Strategy Tips For Winning More Tournaments
Cash game players are used to playing with hundreds of big blinds in their stacks, but playing deep stacked is a luxury that MTT players often can’t afford. In fact, if you are a tournament …
Razz Poker Rules – Master the Basics
While Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha may be the two most popular poker variations these days, they are certainly not the only ones you will find in live and online poker rooms around the …
How to Crush Nits in Your Poker Games
There used to be a time when poker nits were able to dominate the game and win big at the poker tables, much thanks to the generally low level of play across the board. As …
7 Card Stud Poker Rules – Master the Basics
One of the oldest poker games around, 7 Card Stud is a game on which some of the greatest players of all time built their careers and their names. A somewhat simpler form of poker …
Cash Game Poker Hand Review: It matters how you get broke
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 – …
Beat Freezeout Poker Tournaments with Proper Adjustments
Both live and online poker operators these days offer dozens of different tournament formats like PKOs or re-buy, each offering a slightly different approach to the game. Back in the day, however, freezeout poker tournaments …
Jonathan Little Wins Big at PokerGO Cup
Every year, the PokerGO Cup attracts some of the best poker players in the world to PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. This year was no different, as not only were the likes of Daniel Negreanu, …
3-Betting in Poker: How to Pick the Right Spot for a 3-Bet
If you have watched a single episode of a poker TV show or an hour of a poker live stream, you have surely heard the term 3-bet at least once, as it has become one …
Top Adjustments for Beating Calling Stations in Poker
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 am …
Omaha Hi/Lo Rules – Master the Basics
Omaha Hi/Lo, often also referred to as PLO Hi/Lo or Omaha 8, is a variation of the classic game of Omaha poker in which the “Hi” and the “Lo” hand split the pot. The game …