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Shorthanded Poker Strategy

August 06, 2008 Martin Bradley
The popularity of 6-handed ring games instead of a full 9 or 10 man table continues to increase. The main reason for this is that it gives people the opportunity to see more hands an hour and gives them the opportunity to be more creative in their style.
You have either entered a big-stacked tournament online or have qualified for a big tournament live.
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So you have been doing well playing online poker. Your bankroll is up, you are consistently cashing in the Sit and Go games you like to play, and you are going deep in the multi-table tournaments. You decided to change your game a bit and sit down at a cash game… and two hours later you are broke. What happened?
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One of the trickier problems when playing poker is figuring out how to get paid. Not when you flop a better hand and you have a weak player at the table that is going to pay you off – you don't really DO anything to get that, it just happens.
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You can improve your basic card counting skills by drilling online, because the pace is quicker than live play, which means more practice. But things might move a little too fast, at first, so you're going to need to start with these basic card counting drills.
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Basic poker strategy
One of the biggest basic poker strategy weaknesses to new and intermediate poker players tend to have is obvious tells. A tell is some action or indication that you're either strong or weak, and mostly comes out in live poker. It isn't always something obvious like a twitch or humming a tune. Then again, sometimes it is as obvious as shaking or nodding your head a little bit. You might not even know about it.
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How to play H.O.R.S.E

October 22, 2008
Thomas Clarke
In large cash games, players often agree to play a mix of poker games rather than a single game. This reduces the edge that a single-game specialist has, and emphasises a player's breadth across multiple versions of po...More..

Strategy: Playing a big live tournament for the first time

October 08, 2008
Thomas Clarke
The WSOPE and EPT London have now finished, but maybe you have now decided that you would like to be involved in these types of tournaments. This could mean playing live for the first time or perhaps playing big stakes for th...More..

Strategy: Pot Odds

August 18, 2008
Shaun Appleton
Pot odds is one of the most fundamental parts of poker to firstly understand and then master. Any good poker player uses maths to work out whether to continue in a hand or to fold. Many players misunderstand and misuse pot...More..

Playing the Short Stack

July 16, 2008
Shaun Appleton
It is inevitable at one time or another that you will find yourself short stacked in a tournament. Whether it is having a bad beat early on or simply getting deep and the blinds catching up with you. However even if you are s...More..

Poker Strategy: Avoiding going on Tilt

July 09, 2008
Harry Sinclair
Going on Tilt is a phrase that describes when a player lets his own frustrated emotions take over their usual poker strategy. The case in which this most usually occurs is when the player suffers a bad beat....More..
You can still read tells in online poker

Strategy: Online poker tells

June 19, 2008
Thomas Clarke
The difference between online and live poker is that you cannot get the same reads from live play online, simply because you cannot see the players on your table. However there are still things that online players do that can...More..
Getting to grips with bankroll management

Poker Strategy: Bankroll management

June 11, 2008
Thomas Clarke
Guidetopoker continues its series on poker strategy, this week getting  to grips with bankrolls and what you need to do to make sure you are in control of your poker finances...More..
How to play a big stack

Strategy: Playing a big stack

June 04, 2008
Thomas Clarke
So you are flying along in a tournament, you've had the nuts and been called several times, and you have the chip lead. But now you have all these chips what on earth do you do with them?...More..
Bluffing is a strong weapon in poker

Poker strategy: Bluffing

May 26, 2008
Thomas Clarke
Guidetopoker continue our series of strategy articles as we unveil the strategy behind one of a poker player's biggest weapons - the art of bluffing...More..
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