The mistake: Generally in a headsup pot there will be only two or three big bets in the pot on the third round, meaning the pot offers a player three to one or four to one to call and draw. However, four

The mistake: Snowcatching (calling against a pat hand hoping that it's a bluff) at the end of the hand only with premium three-card hands that you played aggressively at the beginning of the hand. This

The mistake: Usually you’re expected to bet when a card ahead, and check to an opponent who is a card ahead. But some players check their weaker hands even when a card ahead, and will bet when improving

The mistake: When looking at starting hands, it’s important to take into account the possibility of improving to a three-card hand that can win the pot. With 765, you’re basically chasing a Badugi, while

The mistake: The name of the game is Badugi, right? So you really should only bet when making Badugis? In fact, much of the value in limit Badugi doesn’t come from playing Badugis, but in situations where

Badugi is a four-card drawing game, with three drawing rounds, and all cards kept private until showdown. The goal is to make a hand containing four unpaired cards of four different suits, called a Badugi,

There's been a lot written about poker over the years, particularly in the last fifteen since a guy named Moneymaker improbably won the World Series of Poker the first year it was shown seriously on

I know a poker player named Bob. Bob sometimes makes friends at the poker table, but he always makes enemies. For whatever reason, every time Bob plays, he has to have an adversary. He'll pick out somebody

I know a limit holdem player named Bob. Bob never knows the right thing to do. He also doesn't like to think about it very much. Bob has read some books, and he knows that aggressive play is best. He knows

I know a live poker player named Bob. In the old days we'd have called Bob a real sonofabitch, but I don't think we're supposed to say that anymore. I'm not sure what the kids would call him, because the

I know an online poker player named Bob. At least, Bob thinks he's a poker player, but he doesn't think about playing poker very much. Mostly he thinks about how poker games are unfair to Bob. Bob is convinced

I know a poker player named Bob. Bob hates moving down limits. He knows that sometimes he has to, and when that happens he does it, reluctantly. Bob has good bankroll management, and it helps to keep Bob

I know a limit holdem cash player named Bob. Bob judges players by their stack size. He thinks someone with a lot of chips must be a really good player, and someone without very many chips must be a bad

I know a no-limit holdem player named Bob. Bob loves to check-raise the turn. He got into poker toward the beginning of the boom after he saw Greg Raymer check-raise the turn on TV, and he really wanted

Woke up and saw a guy I like sitting the $2 table, so thought I'd play him a little. He's not terrible but his balance is off, and I'm pretty sure I have an edge. Not so much today, though, as we played

So I woke up this morning and there was a new user sitting waiting for action at the OFC tables. Score! If you've been following along you know that nobody's been playing me lately, so I was excited.

An hour and a half against a very bad reg, and half an hour against a new player who made some setting mistakes but was otherwise OK. -$6.76, basically even. I "won" the dead fantasyland competition

A little under three hours against the reg who sits the next lower level, -$70.09. I'm not really all that broken up over this number as he was running incredibly hot pretty much the whole time, and I

Finally got some action, mostly from the regular who sits the next lower stake. The site pro also came in and played half a round before abandoning in the middle, which was a little odd. I hadn't played

After several days of just sitting for the sake of sitting, 1:45 against the good reg again. Swung way up and then all the way back down to end -$20.61. If I continue to only get action from this guy I'm