Al Spath
The art of bluffing and semibluffing
A bluff is a bet of some nature when you have little or no chance of winning the pot if someone calls. A semibluff is
Ante Up Magazine
March 31, 2016
A bluff is a bet of some nature when you have little or no chance of winning the pot if someone calls. A semibluff is
I spent some time teaching the game to some new players recently and there are a few universal challenges they face that I want to
Recently, several emails have come from students with queries on how best to play pocket pairs. Let’s explore a few rules of thumb to keep
Anger is often seen as the primary reason for going on tilt. There obviously are others: losing, embarrassment, stupidity. However, anger is the one I
New players, having only seen the riches won at no-limit hold’em on TV, want to play those games online and live immediately. However, players who
In a class I taught, Texas Hold’em Poker 101, Hold’em for Beginners, we met for three consecutive Wednesdays, two hours at a time. On the
A lot of people compare tilt to anger. While anger is a form of tilt, both concepts are complicated, but anger is not tilt. Anger
On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I sat at a $1-$2 no-limit hold’em table for a few hours with mostly recreational players and I
Raising preflop from late position in hopes of convincing opponents to check on a subsequent round, is not really getting a free card, is it?
There are several traits of my students who show significant improvement after signing up for my course. One that really stands out is, they do
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