Poker Articles

Players who are interested in improving their game usually consider taking poker lessons at one point or another.  Poker lessons, or coaching, can be great value…but you need to fully understand your goals and skills to get the most from these sessions.  The obvious reason to get a coach is to improve […]

Since I coach midstacking I often get asked questions about it, so I thought I’d write something up answering many of the questions that get repeated, or responding to some misconceptions about midstacking. So here we go! What is midstacking? Using the definitions of Owen Gaines in his book Poker Math That

It’s quite humorous how many poker players go through the exact same progression once they start playing. While it’s obvious that over time, with study and experience, a player will improve and usually find themselves playing a TAG or LAG strategy…where do they start? After having coached about 450 players and hearing

So I’ve been a little quiet recently…or at least when it came to updating this site.  The main reason is that I’ve been hard at work on another project.  A project that compliments this site while offering something refreshing to the poker video market.  And with that, I introduce Poker Crash Course!

A question I get quite often is “are today’s poker games more aggressive?“, and it’s a fair question.  It seems like the average player is more aggressive than ever before, especially when you consider that only 5 years ago the games were incredibly passive.  So I decided I would test some things

Every good player has to know how to play preflop poker well.  Playing profitable poker preflop means that you are taking good opportunities, getting out of -EV spots, and all the while setting yourself up for success postflop.  Most beginner players struggle with poker simply because they play preflop with a lack

I was emailing back and forth with a prospective student and he sent a very long email with a bunch of excellent questions.  These are pretty common questions from students, and thus I thought they deserved a public answer.  So his poker coaching questions are in orange and my answers will be

After reading the title you may be a bit confused as to WTF I’m talking about.  First off, what is poker stat disparity?  A disparity in poker stats is simply a difference between stats…and this difference can be quite helpful once understood. I’ve spoken in the past about the gaps between stats

When I first began playing poker in 2005, training sites were still really coming into their own. Cardrunners really took off around that time, among others, and changed the way cash poker was played through their “aggressive in position” approach to punishing fish. One of the first things I learned studying training