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It’s easy to spot a flush draw. As opponents become more skillful they recognize when flushes are a ...
By Bart Hanson
Posted Feb 28, 2012
One of the most overplayed hands in live no-limit is top pair and a flush draw. It's amazing that pe...
Posted Mar 13, 2012
Hand reading is a critical element in becoming a big winning player at no-limit holdem. One of the m...
Posted Apr 25, 2012
One of the simplest leaks to plug when playing small level no-limit cash games is calling with the w...
Posted May 02, 2012
Often times I will make really big calls with draws. In fact, I get a lot of weird looks after makin...
Posted May 09, 2012
Running the cards more than once is a way to decrease the variance in a hand by chopping the pot int...
Posted Jun 13, 2012
One of the most powerful tools of a world class no limit player is the raise-fold for value. Raise-f...
Posted Jun 20, 2012
It is pretty rare that you find yourself drawing virtually dead when playing no-limit hold’em. Even ...
Posted Jun 27, 2012
I am not sure who came up with the term “pot control” but nowadays you hear it referenced much more ...
Posted Jul 28, 2012
One of the more common excuses I hear people use when explaining why they could not fold an overpair...
Posted Sep 15, 2012
I am never a fan of trying to bluff players off of over pairs at the lower levels. 95% of the money ...
Posted Sep 22, 2012
There was a phrase created from one of the online tracking databases a few years ago called the “Fuz...
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Typically, when you are playing smaller, live no limit games buy-ins are capped or are for a fixed a...
Posted Nov 05, 2012
I am a huge believer in having a great image at the table. I have talked in past articles about how ...
Posted Nov 09, 2012
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
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
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
If you have read my past Cardplayer articles you know that I am not a big fan of slowplaying. In fac...
Posted Feb 17, 2013
First level poker players are only thinking about their own hand. If they hold four to a flush they ...
Posted Mar 17, 2013
The concept of inducing involves making a bet or a raise that attempts to get your opponent to make ...
Posted Apr 18, 2013
Almost all of my previous CLPTT articles have been about live no limit cash and because I am writing...
Posted May 08, 2013
After busting the Main Event of the WSOP this year I was absolutely miserable. We all hear the stori...
Posted May 12, 2013
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