Category Archives: Theory

As far as rules of thumb go in poker, “check to the raiser” is a pretty good…

08/05/2023 7 min. / 22 sec.

This is a companion piece to this article on the SB’s strategy for blind vs blind play…

02/05/2023 7 min. / 15 sec.

ICM incentivizes more conservative play, which means that at stages of the tournament where risk premiums are…

01/05/2023 6 min. / 26 sec.

The mathematics of poker holds a little-known secret: the first bettor enjoys better bluffing odds than someone…

25/04/2023 5 min. / 46 sec.

When you have a lot of chips at a final table or in another situation with extreme…

24/04/2023 8 min. / 49 sec.

Our never-ending quest for money and fame leads us to the flop. We open the button, the…

18/04/2023 10 min. / 54 sec.

When I first started working with preflop solves, one of the features I found most striking was…

17/04/2023 9 min. / 39 sec.

Why do so many professional poker players register late for tournaments when they clearly would enjoy a…

10/04/2023 11 min. / 49 sec.

Playing against an in-position cold-caller is dramatically different–and dramatically more difficult–than playing against a caller from the…

04/04/2023 9 min. / 21 sec.