By Matthew Gregoire Over the years, I’ve coached many players. It’s one of my favorite things to offer friends, family and students. I’m honored to have enough knowledge to offer tutelage. The one thing I realized early on is you can’t have one recipe for success for each player. In other words, everyone has specific […]
If you find yourself making consistent trips to your local casino to play $1-$2 or $2-$5 pot-limit Omaha cash games, take a look at these
Here’s a situation I see surprisingly too much in no-limit hold’em tournaments and cash games. Let’s use tournaments as an example. Say blinds are 100-200 and everyone is plenty deep. There are four limpers to the big blind, who raises to 400. Everyone calls and they see a flop five-handed. What has the big blind […]
Assume we’re playing in a nine-handed cash game with 100 big-blind stacks. We raise preflop with in middle position and our opponent calls on the button; everyone else folds. The flop comes . We make a bet two-thirds the size of the pot and our opponent calls. The turn is the . Most players have […]
Tilt is short-hand for a state of mental or emotional confusion or frustration in which a player adopts a less-than-optimal strategy. This results in poor play. Writers have long been attempting to oversimplify this complex process and have created a disservice to the poker community. The fact is we have tilt. How we get there and how we […]
By Matthew Gregoire Sometimes our toughest poker battles occur away from the felt. When times are tough in your life, it’s often best to take a break from poker to reassess your life. If your mind is drifting into life decisions rather than making the optimal play during a tournament or cash game, it can […]
Drawing Dead, a poker documentary that tells two very different tales of online poker through the eyes of players, makes its national television debut tonight.
Here’s a recap of the hand that busted me at the Deep Stack $2 million guarantee at the Borgata Open. The hand is not at
As I discussed in the September issue, Twitter and other social media are great for poker, but they have a few pitfalls. The main downside of using social media for play-by-play commentary is the information you’re giving to others about your game. As poker players, we need to do as much as we can to […]
By Matthew Gregoire One of the most important aspects of a person’s life is balance. It’s common to see the same players day-in and day-out
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