Continuation Betting
Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin on some of the game’s trickiest concepts: How and why should you continuation bet? What is a continuation bet? A continuation bet is a b...
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Big daddy
Having a big stack in a tournament is one of poker’s great pleasures Ahhh, to be a big stack – the daddy of the table. The blinds are rising? Good, because I’m...
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Dead man’s hands
Get the knowledge – beat the field The lesson is, greed is liable to get your fingers burnt How many ‘What happened next?’ type situat...
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Size matters
There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to bet sizing in deep-stack online tournaments With so many deep-stack tournaments now available online, it’s...
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Three’s a crowd
Getting down to three-handed play is an achievement, but to go further you must adopt a unique strategy In most poker tournaments the payout structures are ver...
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Heads-up tips
Top British poker pro Marc Goodwin gets to the bottom of some of the game’s trickiest concepts What’s the single most important thing to do when you&rsqu...
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Floating a bet
The ‘float’ is a great strategy to employ against tight, solid players You must have position to utilise the float play, as you cannot float out of posi...
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Nice timing
Good timing is one of the important skills for a poker player to have, says Marc Goodwin You must have come across the situation when you are about to raise an...
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Short-stack shoves
It’s a perennial dilemma: you need to push soon, but do you do it now or wait a few more hands? FOOLS RUSH IN I was recently playing in a $100 tournament w...
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Post-flop punishment
Karl Mahrenholz tackles what to do post-flop, whether or not you strike it lucky… TJ Cloutier famously once used the phrase ‘no set, no bet’....
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