In this article James reviews a hand  played with QQ’s in a $1/$2 game home game. In this hand we need to decide on how to represent a bluff based on an A-typical button incentive created in this home game. However we quickly discover how important it is for us to hand read […]

Today’s question comes from Thomas who played an interesting hand in a live 25 cent/50 cent game. For whatever reason, Thomas decided to make a HUGE fold with two-pair, and we need to dissect this hand and see if the fold was solid or not.

In today’s spot we’re playing 4-handed. We have AJ in the big blind. There’s a steal from the button, call from the small blind, and the Hero decides to 3bet. Alastair in the write-up says this: “I wanted to send this hand because I’m working on expanding my 3bet range and quickly realizing

First and foremost, I want to thank Scott a lot for giving me a lot of tournament information about this and this is the write-up that he sent me. He said, “This was deep in the nightly $55 tournament on PokerStars with a $25k guarantee. There are nineteen players remaining in the

In this hand we have AKs on the button. It folds around, hero steals, gets called, and goes heads up to it. Nikos says that he plays a lot of 6max 5NL on Pokerstars and the villain is unknown to him. There’s only 26 hands against him, so there’s no real indication

In this hand Philipp has to decide what to do with Queen-high in a local poker tournament. Preflop, he makes an aggressive raise over a bunch of limpers and ends up going heads up to the flop. After facing a donk bet on 952, Philipp decides to start bluffing and needs a

In this hand we’re playing 25NL, 6-Max online. There’s a raise UTG. Hero decides the 3bets, and in this situation seat four is a 17/13 over 24 hands. I don’t hate the 3bet in the sense that I love being aggressive – but we really want to consider if the 3bet is