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You should have a very good reason to go for a check raise on the river. A lot of players don’t valu...
By Bart Hanson
Posted Nov 01, 2015
One of the more common non strategy based questions that I receive on twitter or via email has to do...
Posted Apr 09, 2014
A lot of players at the mid stakes and lower levels of no limit do not spend time thinking about the...
Posted Apr 16, 2014
Like most situations in no limit when determining whether or not to bluff catch you should be thinki...
Posted Jul 09, 2014
In today's No Limit games even the most passive players tend to know that betting on good textured b...
Posted Jul 28, 2014
A lot of the skill of hand reading comes from rightly assigning an accurate range of your opponent b...
Posted Aug 18, 2014
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
Against good players small pocket pairs from OOP are rarely profitable. If you are the type of playe...
Posted Apr 13, 2015
Most players are incapable of turning medium strength hands into bluffs. Use this to your advantage ...
Posted Aug 31, 2015
You should always consider what your opponent may be overplaying when you get raised and hold a stro...
Posted Oct 05, 2015
Multiway action can sometimes make it easier to hand read. When you are playing against predictable ...
Posted Oct 11, 2015
Sometimes, no matter how thin your opponents’ value range is they just have itOccasionally you will ...
Posted Oct 18, 2015
Think about what you want to accomplish when you flop a pair and a flush drawIt is interesting how d...
Posted Feb 05, 2017
When playing deep and the pot is small sometimes you are forced to play your hand straight forward O...
Posted Nov 15, 2015
Pay attention to short stacks that you think may move all-in preflop so that you can size your raise...
Posted Dec 13, 2015
If you get worried after being called when making a bet for value you may be overplaying your handTh...
Posted May 01, 2016
Raises to overbets are rarely bluffs If you have read my articles here before you know that I have s...
Posted May 15, 2016
There are certain situations to pot control Pot control is really overrated in live low and mid-stak...
Posted Sep 04, 2016
4 flush runouts in NL Holdem cause interesting “unique” un-bluffable scenariosOne of the more intere...
Posted Sep 18, 2016
A check raise for value on the river is a tricky play—use it wisely.Before I get into an interesting...
Posted Oct 30, 2016
Sometimes a bluffing hand becomes a bluff catcher given the actionAbout a week ago I was in a very w...
Posted Nov 13, 2016
Sometimes there are opportunities to check raise bluff the river especially if your opponent is not ...
Posted Dec 11, 2016
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
Don’t get upset if you make the right fold preflop and then happen to flop the nutsI was watching an...
Posted Jan 22, 2017