Getting the Balance Right

A few people have approached me recently to ask about the importance of aggression in poker and how crucial is it. Well it is very important and I am not going to contradict the messages that are in the books and everywhere else.
But blind aggression can be a terrible weakness and especially against good players [...]

The Books did the business….for once!

Don’t get me wrong here because you can get an awful lot of knowledge from any book and poker is no different. But in order to reach the top in any field then simply reading from books is not going to cut it.
But…..those two books that are mentioned in a previous blog have really got [...]

The Art of Bluffing

Getting ready for some serious poker this weekend, dont care if it is limit or NL but my head is right (I think) and it is time to put the peddle to the metal by way of number of playing hours…..watch this space.
 Onto bluffing then, so what makes a good bluff? Well I see too [...]

Just to clear things up

After reading through my last blog to you, I became aware of something that could potentially be misleading to many people and that was how I played the hand in the 25-50 game.
 It may seem strange how I overbet the pot and moved in when I badly wanted a call. This is difficult to explain in [...]

Defending the blind in NL

Well my blogs from here on in will also include tutorial material as well as this is what many readers have asked for. They dont mind reading my diary but they also want to learn how to get a piece of the action as well.
6 max NL games are all the rage now online and [...]

Going By The Book

I have lost count of the number of people who have been asking me what poker books they should be reading and feel that this would make for an interesting blog today. Bad session in the 25-50 last night but I will leave that as I am still looking to ease the pain.
 I have some strong [...]