Poker Tournaments

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith: To Three-bet or Not to Three-bet

  Jeremiah Smith

  As I was stopping by to check in on Thomas 'gnightmoon' Fuller’s table in a WSOP event, he looks back over his shoulder and asked, 'So...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith: To Flip or Not To Flip

  Jeremiah Smith

  While understanding the eventual inevitability, most live pros do their best to avoid coinflips. Late on Day 2 of the $1,000 WSOP 'stimulus special'...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 3: Manipulating Your Opponents

  Jeremiah Smith

  It’s possible that he just didn’t like me. After all, he had announced a few orbits earlier, 'You better...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 2: First Impressions vs. Table Image

  Jeremiah Smith

  A friend of mine described the strategy he wanted to employ for a daily tournament at the Orleans: 'I’m going to play really tight in the first few levels...

   

• Tournament Poker with Jeremiah Smith, Vol. 1: Table Dynamics -- Big Chips Equal Big Pots

  Jeremiah Smith

  As I took my seat at the table, the first thing I noticed about this 'deep stack' tournament was the number of chips. Or rather, the first thing I noticed was the lack of chips...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Saving Money is Earning Money

  Ashley Adams

  To be a winning 7-card stud player, you need to develop a winning poker strategy. 95% of my columns are devoted to that -- the math, psychology, and analysis necessary to make you better than the folks you are likely to be...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - It Doesn't Look Good, But it Is

  Ashley Adams

  In my Veteran's Day column I explained why many hands that might have looked superficially good really weren't. In today's and next week's column I turn that upside down

   

• Ace Speaks: Tournament poker or live poker?

  Rolf Slotboom

  When I started playing for a living, a bit more than seven years ago, some poker insiders claimed that, contrary to how things seemed to be, the real money was not in tournaments but in cash games.

   

• "Ace" Speaks Live (2): Moving in in tournaments

  Rolf

  In the first article in the "Ace Speaks Live" series on this site, I have discussed the pros and cons of moving in early in cash games. Here is more strategy on no-limit hold'em.