What’s the Rush? The Art of Slowing Down at the Table
One thing I have noticed when sweating players I am working with, especially players that are struggling the most, is their propensity to rush nearly all of their decisions. We are not blessed with a huge amount of time at the online felt but we do have more than enough time to regularly go through […]
6-Max Pre-Flop Open Raising Ranges
I originally created this blog post in 2015 to provide conservative pre-flop ranges for beginning and struggling micro stakes poker players, including open-raising ranges, cold-calling ranges, and 3-betting ranges; however, my advice on implementing those ranges has changed over the years, so I’ve decided to limit this blog post to focus solely on conservative open-raising […]
Positional Awareness in Poker
To say that position is important in poker is like saying having gasoline is important to driving an automobile. Knowing which hands you should play and how you should play them according to where you are sitting at the table in relation to the dealer button is one characteristic that distinguishes a winning poker player […]
Poker Game Selection
What is it? Game selection is simply the strategy of finding the most profitable games available to you. It involves identifying “soft” tables with “weak” players. It involves both table and seat selection. Why is game selection important? In poker games, if we are always playing against players who have equal ability to us or […]
The Biggest Hurdle: The Mental Game & Tilt
If there is one thing in common that I see most micro stakes poker players struggle with, it’s their mental game. Coaching students one-on-one and teaching them in my classes, I often see one commonality: most tend to struggle with tilt. In fact, it is one of the things I struggled with myself when I […]
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
What’s the Rush? In poker, patience is key, especially for beginning and struggling micro stakes players. I think that patience is greatly overlooked and, therefore, commonly pushed to the side when people play poker. And I’m not talking about just patience with in-game play, but patience in all aspects of poker for someone looking to […]