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Adjusting your poker game is key
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
Ante Up Magazine
November 21, 2013
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
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
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 … Continue reading How you handle tilt makes the difference in poker
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
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 all instructive as far as my play, but it ended up a three-way pot and one of my opponents played it so horribly that it’s worth examining. Blinds were 250-500 […]
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
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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