Author Archives: Andrew Brokos

Three-bet pots are scary. Playing out of position is scary. Put them together, and you’ve got many…

20/11/2023 11 min. / 19 sec.

Valuing your hand appropriately—determining whether it’s strong enough to value bet or so weak you should consider…

14/11/2023 14 min. / 3 sec.

Monotone flops tend to provoke great anxiety among poker players. It’s easy to imagine that your opponent…

30/10/2023 15 min. / 42 sec.

Responding effectively to donk bets on the turn is tricky;, there’s no getting around that. It’s one…

26/10/2023 7 min. / 58 sec.

Donk betting–taking the betting lead away from the previous street’s aggressor–on the flop is rarely correct and…

24/10/2023 10 min. / 55 sec.

With the advent of solvers, some troubling new turns of phrase have entered the poker lexicon. In…

03/10/2023 12 min. / 51 sec.

When there’s been a raise and re-raise before the action is on you, you will have to…

02/10/2023 14 min. / 33 sec.

In a previous GTO Wizard article, I asserted that “Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and…

21/09/2023 9 min. / 20 sec.

Playing a short stack well is an essential tournament skill. It is extremely rare to win a…

18/09/2023 10 min. / 19 sec.