Card Player Magazine Poker NewsPhil Gordon Team Full Tilt When I’m thinking about my actions after the flop or turn, I look to the "texture" of the board – i.e., what cards are in play, and how might they interact with my opponent’s likely starting hands – to help determine if and how much I will bet. My normal [...]
We have been trying something new this week. It’s called Rush Poker and you can play it on Full Tilt Poker. In this format you are placed into a pool of players. Each table is filled from the pool. The game and table are just like any other poker variant, but in this format when [...]
Steve Brecher Full Tilt Pro While playing on Full Tilt Poker, I have said that there are three topics I won’t discuss in table chat; politics, religion, and whether Online Poker is rigged. That’s because many people’s opinions on those topics are hardened and not amenable to friendly or productive discussion. Away from the table, [...]
Paul Wolfe Full Tilt Pro I was at my first World Series of Poker in 2002, talking to a player who had made the final table the year before. He told me something I’ve never forgotten, and it’s helped me ever since. I had raised pre-flop with A-K and he called from the button. The [...]
Perry Friedman Full Tilt Pro For those of you who are unfamiliar with seven-card stud, there are some betting quirks in the game that you should understand. During the opening round of betting (also called "third street"), the player with the lowest up card is forced to act first. There are two choices: Bet the [...]
Richard Brodie Full Tilt Pro When I started playing poker, I would get so excited when I flopped a big hand that I forgot my main goal: Win as many chips as possible. When I had marginal hands, I would think hard about what my opponent had and whether I could beat it. But when [...]
Team Full Tilt In recent months, many of our players have asked for suggestions on what poker books provide the best insights into the game. Being curious ourselves, we put the question to our pros and the answers we got back included some long-time favorites, along with a few surprises. While our pros all have [...]
Aaron Bartley Full Tilt Pro One of the most important poker lessons has nothing to do with how to play Aces in late position or how to adjust for the maniac in seat three. It’s how to manage your money in a way that will make it grow as quickly as possible with minimal risk. [...]
Andy Bloch Team Full Tilt I get asked a lot of poker strategy questions, from beginner to advanced. Some are easy, but some involve the kind of math I can’t always do off the top of my head. When that happens, I rely on one of a number of free tools to calculate the probability [...]
Phil Gordon Team Full Tilt Let’s say an early position opponent – preferably a loose opponent – raises and gets called by one or more players. Now there’s a lot of money in the pot. More importantly, the players who simply called are unlikely to have a hand that would merit calling a big re-raise. [...]
