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If you have read my past Cardplayer articles you know that I am not a big fan of slowplaying. In fac...
By Bart Hanson
Posted Feb 17, 2013
Think about what you want to accomplish when you flop a pair and a flush drawIt is interesting how d...
Posted Feb 05, 2017
If your opponent won’t bluff and you think he is betting a draw than it is best to raise him to avoi...
Posted Dec 29, 2014
One of the most common patterns that I see in low level, live no limit games, is turn check-raises b...
Posted Feb 01, 2013
One of the things that you want to do to become a better poker player is to stop thinking of situati...
Posted Dec 07, 2012
Sometimes a semi-bluff raise on the TURN adds much more fold equity than a raise on the FLOP.About t...
Posted Dec 25, 2016
We have all learned that holdings like 8:c: 7:c: are supposedly better starting hands than K:h: T:c:...
Posted Sep 22, 2014
If you feel like your opponent is on a draw don’t make a small raise with awkward stacks to feel lik...
Posted Nov 17, 2014
One of the most awkward spots you can find yourself in in todays no limit games is an opponent who c...
Posted Nov 29, 2012
When playing deep and the pot is small sometimes you are forced to play your hand straight forward O...
Posted Nov 15, 2015
Those of you who have played PLO know that sometimes in a multiway pot a non-nutty, two-way draw can...
Posted Jan 01, 2014
Typically, when you are playing smaller, live no limit games buy-ins are capped or are for a fixed a...
Posted Nov 05, 2012
You should have a very good reason to go for a check raise on the river. A lot of players don’t valu...
Posted Nov 01, 2015
If you have ever spent a lot of time at a live poker table you will quickly realize that a lot of pl...
Posted May 20, 2013
One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make at the lower levels is overplaying their draws. T...
Posted Jun 21, 2013
Sometimes, no matter how thin your opponents’ value range is they just have itOccasionally you will ...
Posted Oct 18, 2015
There was a phrase created from one of the online tracking databases a few years ago called the “Fuz...
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Multiway action can sometimes make it easier to hand read. When you are playing against predictable ...
Posted Oct 11, 2015
After busting the Main Event of the WSOP this year I was absolutely miserable. We all hear the stori...
Posted May 12, 2013