One of the first things we’re told as poker players is to play fewer hands more aggressively. Most players get pretty good at instituting aggression when they are the first to bet. They might even get into the habit of picking spots to raise an opponent, but many balk at three-betting. If you have a strong hand, it can feel like you’re giving the game away. If you have a weak hand, the stakes can seem too high.

How many times have you hit a straight flush? Not many Im sure! Bill Klein does exactly that in this poker hand from the 2021 Super High Roller Bowl in the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Whats even more impressive is that two of his opponents Alex Foxen and Justin Bonomo have also hit a straight! In this strategy column, I’ll talk about hands that like to bet in multiway pots.

Its been nearly three years since I last penned a Holdem with Holloway strategy article, but I am back thanks to some recent poker action I played on the high seas and felt compelled to write about. Back in October, I had the opportunity to take a cruise on the Virgin Voyages ship Scarlet Lady, which departs out of Miami and sails about the Caribbean. As if taking a leisurely cruise wasnt reason enough, I was keen to check out WPT at Sea, the first permanent poker room on the high seas, one that happens to be sponsored by the renowned World Poker Tour (WPT).

Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot has been on a huge downswing that included losing over $1 million to Matt Berkey around the time this hand was played on the Hustler Casino Live stream earlier this year. This crazy high-stakes poker hand took place in a game at HCL where the blinds were a huge $100/$200/$400. The game became uncapped and Wesley was sitting with a crazy $2,200,000 in front of him, which was bound to cause a huge pot sooner or later.

Every poker player has goals. These goals might be a vague dream of playing the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, a specific goal of grinding out a minimum wage online, or a burning desire to beat their buddies at the weekly home game. Whatever your aspirations might be, getting serious about goal setting is a vital part of developing your game and achieving poker success. Goal setting is about taking your aims and aspirations, nailing them down and figuring out the concrete steps required to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Getting better at poker is often split into two phases: study and practice. A lot of pixels have been darkened on the topic of how to optimize poker study, but in this article, we’re going to talk about one of the most basic choices you make about your poker practicewhat format should you play, cash or tournaments? Cash games and tournaments play very differently, drawing on various skills, knowledge sets, and play styles.

Short-handed play is challenging, especially if you’re used to playing at full-ring tables of eight to ten players. The pattern of play changes as the table shrinks. Preflop hand values shift, and the shorter rounds mean that you have to cough up your blinds that much more often. If you play at a stake level with high volumes of traffic online, you may never have to worry about short-handed play. However, if you play live where cash game traffic ebbs and flows, or if you play MTTs, you will find yourself having to adjust to different table sizes frequently, if not regularly.

Lucia Navarro is the latest 888poker pro to be in the hot seat for the platform’s Made to Learn series. In the latest instalment, Navarro reveals five top tips on knowing when to correctly hero call when you think your opponent is bluffing. Check Your Odds In poker, you don’t have to be right every time you make a call. If you run the same hand a thousand times and you win it more than you lose it, it’s the right call.

888poker is the virtual home of online Mystery Bounty tournaments, and ambassador Vivian Saliba shares five top tips to help you elevate your game in the format. And it’s worth taking note of what Saliba has to say as every Sunday, the $100,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event takes place. So get the kettle on, settle down, and take in these pieces of advice. Preserve Your Stack Stack preservation is very important in Mystery Bounty tournaments.

Mariano likely just won the largest pot of his career when he flopped a king-high straight flush on Hustler Casino Live against fellow HCL regular Andy Stacks. Fortunately for Mariano, Andy has the one hand that would pay him the full double an ace-high flush. In this strategy column, I will discuss how Mariano should bet on the flop in this multiway hand in a four-bet pot as there are plenty of hands that would still call on the flop.

This is the third article in this series where I break down a key hand from each day of my eight-day 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event run. You can read about Day 1 here and Day 2 here. Also, Ive created video breakdowns of key hands I played, which you can get access free here. I began Day 3 with just over 200,000 chips, but have already worked my way up to over 350,000 during the first level with a well-timed bluff and by picking up a few solid hands.

At the beginning of December, I had the opportunity to attend a Celebrity Charity Tournament in Santa Monica, California that was headlined by Hollywood actors Ted Danson, Cheryl Hines and Andy Buckley. The winner was set to receive a $10,000 seat into the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The $1,200 buy-in event with $500 re-buys had approximately 100 players and was hosted by Jerry Greenberg, Bruce Stern, Eliott Kessas and Jacob Zalewski.

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WHAT IS A BOUNTY TOURNAMENT? A bounty tournament is a specific tournament where the prize is divided between the overall prize pool and players. Players receive prizes for each player they eliminate from the tournament. (We toyed with saying, “Players receive prizes for each player they make walk the virtual plank,” but there are only so many pirate puns we can handle at a time.) The greatest part of bounty tournaments is the opportunity for smart players to accumulate bonus prizes throughout the tournament; unlike standard MTTs and Sit’n’Go’s, even if you don’t finish ‘in the money’, you gain prizes each time you eliminate another player!

OMAHA Hold’em—or simply Omaha, as it’s commonly referred to by seasoned sharks and newbies alike—is one of the most popular poker games on the poker scene. In fact, Pot-Limit Omaha (one of the three main types of Omaha poker) is fast-becoming the most revered (and the most played) game in the world. Why? Because it’s fast-paced, action-packed, and its rules are very similar to Texas Hold’em. So if you already know how to play Texan, you should be able to pick up an Omaha game in a flash.

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HOW TO PLAY OMAHA HI-LO SHOW OFF YOUR POKER SKILLS WITH A GAME OF OMAHA HI-LO—BUT ARE YOU CONFIDENT YOU’LL WIN THE POT? Ah, the highs and lows of poker. They come in many forms, as any poker player will tell you. One minute you’re on top of the world ordering magnums of Moët, the next minute you’re tearing your hair out reaching for a double Jack Daniels on the rocks.

888poker ambassador Ian Simpson takes you to school in the latest Made to Play strategy video from the online poker platform. Below, he lists five top tips on when you should defend your big blind, which take into account aspects such as position, raise sizes, stack depths and ICM. Big Blind Defence Position Position is key when defending your big blind. If your opponent opens from early position, they’ve done so with up to eight players to act after them.

Ethan “Rampage” Yau turned the nuts in a $5/$10/$20 cash game at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, but the river left him with far from the best hand. In this strategy column for PokerNews, I discuss which draws are good to bet on the flop and which ones you should use to check. Generally, draws that can still profitably call a check-raise are good ones to bet. Draws that have low showdown value but still have good equity are great ones to use in your betting range.

We’ve all heard about the importance of being aggressive in poker, but the real trick is knowing when and how to put that aggression into action. Join us in the next episode of Made To Learn, where 888poker Ambassador Alexandre “Cavalito” Mantovani spills the beans on five practical tips to bring some aggression into your poker game. Identify Boards That Are Better For Your Range When we raise and get called, there are some boards that we can be very aggressive on.

Were back in action on Day 4 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event with another Hand of the Day breakdown. For those new to the series, here are the earlier installments of the series: Its midway through Day 4, the money bubble just burst, and were guaranteed $25,000 in prize money for our effort thus far. Its no small sum, of course, but as any poker player can attest, its as much of a disappointment as it is a success.

Are you struggling to turn a decent profit at the poker tables on a consistent basis? Are your results best described as “somewhere around break-even”? First off, don’t worry because you are not alone. This describes the results of the majority of poker players. Often, however, it is just a few small poker strategy adjustments that can take your game from mediocre to amazing from break-even to crushing it. In this article, I am going to provide you with seven subtle but highly effective poker tips to help you get better at poker.

In the dynamic world of online poker on WPT Global, mastering the art of strategic gameplay requires a keen awareness of various player behaviors and subtle indicators. This article delves into a comprehensive guide, combining insights from diverse sources to provide seven tips for astute players looking to spot online poker tells and gain a strategic advantage. Stack Size and Auto-Rebuy Did you know that the dynamics of stack size and the employment of the auto-rebuy feature unravels valuable insights?