Author: John

This page is for players who are new to online poker tournaments. You will find a ton of information here to get you off to a profitable start – plus…

Poker odds are a critical factor in success in online poker tournament strategy. While alone information on odds and outs will not make a player an…

At some point in the career of any poker player a dilemma is reached. Adding more poker tables with your current skill set could see you making a very…

Levels of thinking in poker describes as escalating scale of “I know – You Know I Know – You Know I Know That You Know” type thinking. It sounds complex…

Putting an opponent on an exact hand is difficult enough by the river. Doing this pre-flop, especially when there is little significant betting action…

Late registration into poker tournaments is a relatively recent innovation. Pokerstars started offering this a couple of years ago, with the other sites adding the ability to join a tournament which is already running one-by-one after this.

Here is a scenario that is familiar to many players of online poker tournaments: You played well, building a healthy stack for the middle stages of an online tournament, you lose a pot to a short stack, then raise and have to fold to a big all-in re-raise – a couple of blinds go through you… all of a sudden your healthy stack is average again. While you did nothing wrong your urge is to make a play, a big bluff or daring steal to try and regain your momentum – you have hit the dip!

The “Gap Concept” refers to the difference between raising and calling a raise preflop. This rule states that you need a better hand to call a raise with than you need to would need to raise yourself had nobody entered the pot.

As different poker strategies become established, new and creative ways are needed to counteract them. For example, later position players routinely…

Every poker player has areas of their game which could be improved, certain situations which they handle better than others and characteristics which…