Poker is a serious business – especially when your money is on the table. So it’s important to understand what tells are all about. It’s especially important to recognize your own tells before you sit down at a table. There are some tells that not even a professional poker player can control, and they will [...]

Key Advice for playing poker well, and improving your game. 1) Play well. This might sound like an exercise in the obvious, but it isn’t. I see countless players, who are capable of playing very well indeed, throwing their money away because they can’t be bothered to play well. The problem with playing well is [...]

Hand Ranking Straight Flush: Any five cards of the same suit, in order. E.G. 5,6,7,8,9, all hearts. If there are two straight flushes, then the highest one wins. If, by some miracle, two people have the same straight flush but in different suits (and I have been playing for 30 years, and it hasn’t happened [...]

So what are pot odds? Simply put your pot odds are the odds of winning your hand when on a draw and making the decision to call a bet or raise with it. The reason we use pot odds is to minimize our risk while increasing the pay off in the long run. Obviously players [...]

Apart from developing your skills, one of the most important things that a player should always keep in mind is bankroll management.  After all, poker revolves around money and lots of it.  Every poker player has their own way of managing their money, especially professionals.  But there are standard ways in using your bankroll to [...]