Gareth Chantler

Gareth Chantler Articles

2018 July

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