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River play

Sometimes you can have the best hand almost always on the river but the right play is still to check...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Dec 08, 2014

A lot of information can be gained from your own hand

You can learn a lot about someone else's hand by looking at your ownGreat no limit players are more ...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Dec 01, 2014

When is a scare card a scare card?

A lot of times when the top card pairs--especially when it's a rag--it really isn't a scare card.Las...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Nov 24, 2014

Avoid pricing your opponent in with small raises

If you feel like your opponent is on a draw don’t make a small raise with awkward stacks to feel lik...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Nov 17, 2014

Attacking a weak move on a pot

Sometimes you can "feel" when someone is making a move on a pot. It is like a sixth sense. Some inex...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Nov 10, 2014

Facing river "block" bets

Sometimes when you face a small bet on the river by your opponent you just know that he is not stron...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Nov 03, 2014

Attacking limped pots

Many times in limped pots if you play close attention to the action your opponents from out of posit...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Oct 13, 2014

Attacking preflop limpers

I remember 7-8 years ago when online training sites first came out that one of their most useful pie...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Oct 06, 2014

Donk bets from strong players

If you have read some of my previous columns here you know that I usually say that lead outs, often ...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Sep 29, 2014

You don't always need to know how to react to a raise

If you are familiar with a lot of the training material over on my site CrushLivePoker.com you know ...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Sep 15, 2014

Beware of players check calling to your right

A lot of the skill of hand reading comes from rightly assigning an accurate range of your opponent b...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Aug 18, 2014

Blockers in your hand and relative hand strength

Like most situations in no limit when determining whether or not to bluff catch you should be thinki...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Jul 09, 2014

Underbluff sizing is important

A lot of players at the mid stakes and lower levels of no limit do not spend time thinking about the...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Apr 16, 2014

Unpaired boards lead to river polarization

Even though thin value betting really is the key to increase your winrate in live NLHE games I am st...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Mar 05, 2014

Big draws don't always mean fold equity

Those of you who have played PLO know that sometimes in a multiway pot a non-nutty, two-way draw can...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Jan 01, 2014

Due to combos overpairs should value bet more often

As long as we are on this combinatorics rant I wanted to bring up another scenario where people do n...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Aug 28, 2013

Don't be scared of two pair

If you have read or listened to my training material in the past you know how important that I think...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Aug 14, 2013

Evaluating turn double barrels

If you are familiar with the concept of barreling you know that betting cards that come on later str...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Jul 19, 2013

Consider your opponents holdings

First level poker players are only thinking about their own hand. If they hold four to a flush they ...

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By Bart Hanson

Posted Mar 17, 2013
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