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Is Poker a Game of Skill or Luck?
Ever since poker has been played, a debate has been raging among players – is poker a game of skill or luck, and can you actually be a guaranteed winner at poker based on your […]
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Poker Downswings – How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
Losing is a part of poker, whether you are the best player in the world or a recreational player who plays the game occasionally with their friends. If you have never gone through a bad […]
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Poker Etiquette Rules – Show Your Class at the Tables
Poker is a social game and one that’s often played by as many as ten players at the same table, all wagering real money on the outcome of the game. While the rules of poker are […]
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Top Poker Hand Nicknames You Will Hear at the Poker Table
If there are two things you will hear when you enter any poker room in the world it is the famous clicking of chips and a whole lot of lingo you might not understand at […]
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Real-Time Assistance In Poker – Is It an Imminent Threat?
Ever since online poker first launched in the early 2000s, the possibility of getting cheated was one of the biggest fears shared by poker players across the globe. Indeed, online poker has created many opportunities […]
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Welcome David Peters to PokerCoaching
In 2003, when Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker main event, nobody could have possibly foretold the seismic effect it would have on all of poker. Certainly David Peters, a high-school student at […]
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Learn How to Beat Hyper Turbo Poker Tournaments and Make Proper Strategy Adjustments
Poker tournaments have changed a lot over the years, and the introduction of online poker has certainly had a massive impact on the way tournaments are played. Online poker operators have introduced countless different tournament […]
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Poker Tournament Strategy: Pocket Jacks In The WSOP Main Event
There are poker players you will come across who speak adamantly about how they cannot stand playing pocket jacks. Often their uneasiness with fish hooks comes from a lack of understanding on how to play […]
![One Year of Great Poker Results – Board Texture and Bet Sizing](https://dev.pokercoachingwp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lee-Jones_One-Year-Of-Great-Poker_Ebook-Cover_Thumbnail_4-373x210.png)
One Year of Great Poker Results – Board Texture and Bet Sizing
This chapter continues my discussion about specific poker strategies that have helped me, including board texture and bet sizing. If you wish, you can start reading at Chapter 1, or download the entire e-book as […]
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One Year of Great Poker Results – Draws, Position, and Multi-way Pots
Here I continue my discussion about specific at-table strategies that have improved my game, and I cover three important topics: draws, position, and multi-way pots. If you wish, you can start reading at Chapter 1, […]
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One Year of Great Poker Results – The Meta-game and Conclusions
This is the final chapter of the e-book. It covers important meta-game improvements I’ve made, including a concept that may be the single most important idea in this document. This chapter also wraps a bow […]
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One Year of Great Poker Results – Overview
In this chapter, I give an outline of the changes I’ve made over the past three years, and how they’ve helped me. If you wish, you can start reading at Chapter 1, or download the […]
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One Year of Great Poker Results – Aggression
Here I dive into the nitty-gritty of my new improved strategy. I spend an entire chapter on one vital topic: aggression – both using it, and facing it. If you wish, you can start reading […]
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Top 7 Live Poker Tells You Need to Know
While many modern players focus heavily on mastering betting frequencies and sizes on different board textures and mimicking poker solvers in other ways, old-school players were focused almost entirely on making reads, and finding tells […]
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How to Win PKOs More Often – Top Progressive Knockout Tips from the Pros
Knockout tournaments have been around for a long time, but the format has evolved quite a bit in the last few years, with progressive knockout becoming even more popular than regular knockout tournaments. Progressive knockout […]
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Why You Should Avoid Slow Rolling in Poker
If you first encountered poker from movies like James Bond, there is a good chance that some of the things you saw on screen were wildly unethical but presented in a good light by the […]
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How to Pick the Best Spots for Value Betting in Poker
The very best players in the game have a wide range of plays and skills at their disposal, but some come into play more often than others. Value betting is certainly at the very top […]
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Easy Adjustments to Crush Rebuy Poker Tournaments
While rebuy poker tournaments have become somewhat rare in the live poker arena, online poker sites still offer plenty of rebuy MTTs these days. The format used to be extremely liked up to a few […]
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Learn What Are Re-Entry Tournaments and How To Play Them
Building off the concept of rebuy events, re-entry poker tournaments have been around for quite a few years now, and it definitely looks like they are here to stay. The consensus among both recreational and […]
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Best Short Stack Strategy Tips For Winning More Tournaments
Cash game players are used to playing with hundreds of big blinds in their stacks, but playing deep stacked is a luxury that MTT players often can’t afford. In fact, if you are a tournament […]
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Beat Freezeout Poker Tournaments with Proper Adjustments
Both live and online poker operators these days offer dozens of different tournament formats like PKOs or re-buy, each offering a slightly different approach to the game. Back in the day, however, freezeout poker tournaments […]