Poker Tips

Improving your poker odds before playing

Jul 18th, 2011 | By

Here are three simple tips to help improve your chances of being profitable at poker before you even sit down at a poker table. First, pick the right poker site. There are a lot of poker sites out there. Many players will stay with the first site that they ever signed up with and never [...]



Plugging your leaks

Sep 27th, 2010 | By

It used to be a common condition for even the most successful gambler to have one particular weak spot in their gambling strategy that caused them to lose most of their hard earned winnings. It is still common today, even in this internet led gambling world, for profitable poker players to lose a lot of [...]



Best Poker Software

Jan 27th, 2010 | By

The new poker software product available from PokerTime is a definite contender for the ‘Best Poker Software’ title. One of the most compelling attributes of this software is that it is free! It’s called MyPokerLab and you can download it free from the PokerTime site at MyPokerLab. So, what is it exactly? Well, it is [...]



Tournament strategy – getting into the money

Dec 23rd, 2009 | By

Ok, so you have got to the end of the middle part of a long tournament, and built your stack a bit by stealing some blinds. So what strategy do you need to take to make sure that you get past the bubble and into the money? To the final table even? If you have [...]



Tournament strategy – valuing your chips

Nov 11th, 2009 | By

It is a common enough strategy to try to double your chip stack early on. This is especially true in tourneys that have very large fields.  It is a reasonable strategy, but it has one glaring flaw. Many players will be familiar with the marginal hands that they are happy to go all-in on.  Say [...]



Tournament Strategy – Stealing the blinds

Oct 18th, 2009 | By

After the early stages of any big poker tournament, when the play, and the players, have settled down somewhat, begins the long, tedious and drawn out process of crawling your way to the money. The bigger the field the longer this middle period will be. By this stage many of the lesser skilled players will [...]



Continuation Betting Theory

Sep 5th, 2009 | By

Continuation betting has lost a lot of it’s power at casino games and many of the other well known online gaming sites.  No longer getting any respect, it is now not so much a sign of strength, as it’s absence is a sign of weakness. That is to say, you are expected to follow a [...]



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