Poker Tournaments

• Bankroll Builders, Vol. 3: Stepping Up Your Game, Part 2

  Matthew Parvis

  Yesterday we gave you the lowdown on step tournaments, from how they work to how much cash you'll need to get started. Now that we've got you adequately buttered up, lets look at some tips that will send you to the winner's circle. Tips from the...

   

• Bankroll Builders, Vol. 3: Stepping Up Your Game, Part 1

  Matthew Parvis

  Every poker player dreams of sitting at the final table of a major event. You can feel the lights beating down on you and the cameras focusing on you. This is it. It's your moment to shine and become part of poker history. Then, just like that, you...

   

• Bankroll Builders, Vol. 1: Super Turbo SNGs Part 2

  Nicole Gordon

  Yesterday we ran the first part of our new series "Bankroll Builders" and gave you all the information you'll need to get started playing turbo sit-n-go's. Today, we're following it up with tips to help you crush your low-limit opponents into sit-n-go...

   

• Bankroll Builders, Vol. 1: Super Turbo SNGs Part 1

  Nicole Gordon

  Maybe it happened that night you decided to take a shot at $3/$6 no-limit with only $800 in your account. Or perhaps it came about that one afternoon you felt invincible enough to play $55 heads-up sit-n-go's—then chased your losses at the $109's...

   

• 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.