The World of Professional Poker part three

Cash games are where the real CONSISTENT money is. I have been successful in poker and very successful at that simply because I refused to swallow the crap and went about it my own way and shunned trying to win a big tournament or getting on TV. You can earn a £100K playing cash games [...]

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The World of Professional Poker part two

The way that poker is promoted and marketed, it advertises BIG tournaments with BIG prize money to lure players into the game in the same way that the National Lottery attracts people to buy lottery tickets by making the jackpot well into seven figures. They know that if they spread the prize money more evenly [...]

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The World of Professional Poker part one

In this article I want to lift the lid on just what professional poker actually is in 2010 and to wipe away the crap and the smokescreen that is created. The reason that I have discussing this topic is very simple. During your poker life, you will be constantly bombarded by pictures and stories about [...]

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The Dawn of New Poker Thought Patterns

In this article I want to focus on the time when something very important suddenly dawned on me whilst I was reading a poker book. What I realised was that I was viewing NL Texas Hold’em poker in totally the wrong way. No doubt you will have seen some classic NL hold’em hand match ups. [...]

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The Perils of Slow Playing

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people slow play in poker in the belief that they are doing something smart. If checking monster poker hands always led to the maximum pay off then I can understand why people do it. But people see these types of play on television and think that [...]

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False Beliefs and Crazy Myths with Omaha Hi-Lo

One of the most popular games all over the world is actually Omaha Hi-Lo. The game is focused on a lot of re-draws plus draws. Poker players know that in fixed limit during Omaha Hi-Lo, there are really two hands that will win, and those two hands will split the pot. It’ll be between the [...]

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