Adjusting GTO (Game Theory Optimal) ranges for low-stakes poker involves understanding the typical player tendencies at those stakes and exploiting them effectively. GTO shows us a decent starting point but we can certainly improve on this for live poker as playing GTO in these games is just too defensive and too cautious. We would leave … More Live Preflop Exploits
This short guide will give you some important factors to consider before entering one of these spots in a live poker game and it’s incredibly hard to find information on this topic in books or anywhere online at this time. ‘There is an overwhelming tendency to flat raises rather than re-raise which is consistently … More Squeezing and Multi-way Considerations for Live Low Stakes No-Limit Games
Don’t get it twisted now because I love the option to run it twice when it’s available but I hate how the subject is discussed with such disdain in live poker rooms. Literally not a day goes by when someone doesn’t voice their incorrect/worthless opinion on running it twice. Fish: “Yeah man I like never run it twice, … More The debacle of running it 2x in SSNL and the struggles of straddling
This article will help guide you through the thought-process I use when deciding which hands to defend preflop and factors to be taken into consideration when calculating equity. In this example the cut-off opens the pot with a selection of hands we believe to be about 25% we can visualise this as a hand range … More Calling down postflop & equity realisation
Angle shooting is engaging in actions that may technically be within the scope of the rules of the game, but that are considered unethical or unfair to exploit or take advantage of another player. Yesterday I was playing a £1/£2 No Limit-Holdem game at a London casino. I opened AKo from an early position and … More Angle-shooting in live poker (a cautionary tale of cheating)
Playing poker every day can come with a plethora of health problems from the sedentary setting, unhealthy eating habits and for some even sleeping all day and staying awake all night. I’m very interested in getting any edge I can on and off the table and that includes the health-edge which I want to help … More Nutrition & Poker
If you are interested in hearing some online strategy for fast-forward 6-max or live-poker hand analysis or simply hearing about the poker lifestyle in London- this is the show for you! If you are around on Tuesday nights (9pm) I can answer live questions during my partypoker stream on twitchTV, this was last weeks stream… https://www.twitch.tv/videos/154855103 … More partypokerTV hosting
Whenever I hear this phrase I cannot help but die a little bit inside. People talking at the table is great for the game and I will forever encourage it (thanks Will K) but there are particular questions and phrases that are getting really old really fast. I played a recent competition in London and … More Will you show if I fold?
Have you heard the saying that roughly 10-15% of the poker population are considered ‘winners’ with 2-3% of those being the big winners? While the rest of the players are small winners/losers and break-even players (making up around 20% of the pool) and the last 65% will be the losers. The existence of rake will be … More The Melting Ice-Caps of the Poker Community
Hippodrome The Hippodrome in Leicester Square is the PokerStars Live venue for London so everytime there is a badbeat someone says ‘LOL pokerstars FML’You get free soft drinks whilst you play so you can drink your own weight in caffeine while you sit motionless for the next 12 hours as well as 65p/hour comps (RAKEBACK) … More Poker in London
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