Posts Tagged ‘poker skills’

Calculating Pot Odds

Hi guys.

I understand that calculating genuine pot odds can vary according to the type of player you are. Is this correct?
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Team GB rules the baize

Great Britain, anchored by a man in form Neil Channing, have triumphed in the 2008 Poker Nations Cup and regained the trophy they had won two years ago.
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Aggressive Play

Hi guys.

I consider myself a reasonably good online player who is interested in techniques and strategies, but I wonder is there a need to be aggressive every single time you play? I appreciate that it’s difficult to win if you’re a naturally passive player, but so many of my opponents appear blindly aggressive and are easily beaten. Am I missing a vital element here?

JD

Dear JD,

Aggressive play is not just about making a statement – raising at every opportunity or stealing the blinds – it can actually prove a very subtle strategy: raising for value or to snaffle a free card, for example.

Good players probably tend to be more aggressive, but you’ll see few of them raising and re-raising without a purpose; these guys do not like throwing money away, so their aggression is channelled into bluffing opponents off a hand or into grabbing a free card.

Take one example. You’re playing in a / limit game and are dealt 3-4; the flop is 2-5-7. The small blind bets, after which a player in mid-position calls, leaving you act; you bluff aggression (in anticipation of seeing a free card) and make it to go. Your opponents both call and the turn comes as a 10. As you’re the aggressor, it’s checked to you, but your aggressive approach has produced the desired result – you got to see your free card, although you check because there’s no chance of picking up the pot. Nevertheless, you aggressive strategy worked – you got to see the free card.

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Improve your Poker skills online

If you’ve ever felt that you could benefit from some proper poker tuition but considered coaching manuals to be a tad too dry, then the launch of Phil Gordon’s poker tuition video in a downloadable format may be the answer to all your prayers.
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