Gareth Chantler
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Gareth Chantler is a professional poker player, independent writer, and journalist. Visit his site Stories from Syria.
Gareth Chantler Articles
- 2019 May
- Short Deck Hold'em: Redefining the Nuts
- April
- Targeting Your Opponents' Possible Hands When Bluffing
- What Not to Do Online: Make a Blocking Bet Without a Plan
- March
- Bluffing When an Opponent's Range is Weak
- Hand Analysis: When the Risk Ain't Worth the Reward
- February
- What Not to Do Online: Bluffing Into Strength
- Beware of Trying to Maximize Value With Strong Hands That Aren't the Nuts
- January
- The Dangers of Trying to 'Protect' Your Hand
- Counting the Combos: An Exercise in Range Narrowing
- Avoid Playing Weak Flush Draws Too Aggressively in Multi-Way Pots
- 2018 December
- Breaking Down a 'Suicide' Bluff
- After Bluff Catching on the Turn, Fold to River Bets if Unimproved
- November
- Recognizing When Your Opponent Should Have It
- October
- Hand Analysis: When One Bluff Leads to Another
- When Facing River Shoves, Check Your Hand for Blockers to Possible Bluffs
- What Not to Do Online: Value Betting Against Chops
- September
- The Entitlement Error: Don't Mistakenly Think You 'Deserve' a Pot
- Learn to Notice When Your Hand Blocks Bluffs, Too
- How to Respond to the Big Out-of-Nowhere River Overbet
- When Not to Slow Play: Don't Take Trapping Too Far
- August
- What Not to Do Online: Don't Just Stop Thinking and Shove
- The Nuts That Weren't; or, I'd Rather Be Good Than Lucky
- Deciding What Hand Is the Best Bluff Catcher
- July
- What Not to Do Online: Don't Wait for Value to Come to You
- Why Not Shove? Going All in When Acting First to Negate Positional Disadvantage
- Hand Analysis: It's Not Always Enough to Flop the Nuts
- June
- Knowing the Bottom of Your Range When Deciding Whether or Not to Bluff
- Hand Analysis: The Worst Imaginable Bluff
- Bluffing With the Bottom of Your Range
- May
- Hand Analysis: A Single-Raised Pot Gets Weird
- A Lesson in Hand Reading; or, But What Is Going to Call?
- Just Because a Card Improves Your Hand Doesn't Mean You Should Stay
- What Not to Do Online: Going Broke in a Limped Pot
- April
- How to React When Opponents Overbet the Turn
- Hand Analysis: A Good and Ridiculous Bluff
- Learning How to Become Unbluffable
- Don't Stop Analyzing the Hand After Hitting Your 'Perfect' Card(s)
- March
- Mistakes On All Sides in a Hand of 100NL Zoom
- Hand Analysis: A Thousand Ways to Get Lucky
- What Not to Do: The Desperate, Out-of-Position Shove
- 'Equity' in Poker Is Not Just a State of Mind
- February
- Tournament Strategy: Defending a Short Stack
- Extra! Extra! Read All About It: Preflop Mistake Rewarded
- January
- Raise-Folding for Value? Sometimes You Can
- What Not to Do Online: Letting It All Hang Out When the Board Pairs
- Taking Heat With Pocket Aces in a Hand of 100NL 6-Max Zoom
- Hand Analysis: Don't Ignore the River
- Learning How to Read Your Own Range; or, Think With Your Hands
- 2017 December
- What Not to Do: Getting Priced In
- Hand Analysis: You Can Fold a Full House
- What Not to Do Online: Promote Your Blockers
- November
- Making the Last Bet: Finding Fold Equity with Ace-King
- To Catch a Bluff: Looking Back at a Hand of 100NL
- Hand Analysis: A Negative Freeroll in a Multi-Way Pot
- October
- What Not to Do Online: Losing Your Head
- When Blockers Don't Count: Analyzing an Online Poker Disaster at 100NL
- Big Mistakes When Playing Online Cash Deep-Stacked
- Calling All the Way Down in a Hand of 100NL
- September
- Value Targeting Second-Best Hands When Playing 100NL Online Poker
- Risk vs. Reward; or, Go Ahead, Let Them Draw Out On You
- Bet Sizing When Targeting Second-Best Hands
- August
- 'Groan Folding' in Live Poker
- Narrowing Ranges on the River in 100NL Online
- Don't Try to Bluff Catch a Range Without Bluffs
- The Outs That Weren't There; or, How Not to Play a Drawing Hand Online
- Tell Me a Story: One Way Not to Bluff Online
- Hand Analysis: A Deep-Stacked Online Miscue at 100NL
- July
- What Not to Do Online: Relative vs. Absolute Hand Strength at 100NL
- March
- Prepare Yourself: Pre-Session Advice for Online Poker Players
- Dealing With Uninvited Bluffs
- 2016 October
- Learning to Think About Your Own Range of Hands, Part 2
- September
- Learning to Think About Your Own Range of Hands, Part 1
- June
- Let's Talk About Seven-Way Flops: Carnage and Regret
- Let's Talk About Seven-Way Flops: Range Advantage and Multi-Way Action
- March
- Ignoring the Alarm: A Lesson to Listen When Warning Bells Ring
- February
- The Pain of a Poker Tournament Exit
- January
- Why So Much? An Exercise in Capping an Opponent’s Range
- A Multi-Way Hand: Raise for Value or Call to Keep Players In?
- 2015 December
- Using Your Own Hand Ranges to Guide Decisions Against Unknown Opponents
- October
- Obsessed With Your “All-in EV”? It’s a Negative Freeroll
- September
- You’re Chip Leader -- Now What? The Danger of Expectations in Tournaments
- May
- Uncharted Territory: Making the Worst of a Short Stack?
- Uncharted Territory: Playing a Final Table Without Antes
- April
- Final Table Puzzles, Pt. 3: Pushing Pocket Tens, and Flopping a Flush
- Final Table Puzzles, Pt. 2: After Flopping Two Pair, a Hand Takes a Tricky Turn
- March
- Final Table Puzzles, Pt. 1: Thinking in the Face of the Big Shove
- Choosing Your Discards in No Limit Irish
- Swirling Pressures: Final Table Decisions in The Bigger $162, Part 2
- A New Game: Final Table Decisions in The Bigger $162, Part 1