I always think that tilt can be caused by numerous different things. Firstly one of the main reasons players tilt is that they have probably not travelled far enough down the evolutionary road to true poker expertise and are expecting their skill to dominate too much. This is a problem with poker that simply does [...]
Just think about this for a second. You are sitting in your normal Online Texas Holdem poker cash game and somehow a player or two in your game never seems to make mistakes. You review your hand histories and this guy is just perfect every time. He folds when he is supposed to and never [...]
We haven’t talked about poker tells for a long time. Recently I revised Caro’s Book of Tells — The Body Language of Poker, and put it back into print. While I was working on that revision, I thought, reasoned, pondered, and concentrated. Sometimes I did all four at once. Pretty soon it became clear to [...]
Grand Island, Nebraska, 1965. I’m playing a little too conservatively, but winning nonetheless. I haven’t mastered most of the tricky tactics, tells, and psychological warfare yet, so I resort to just playing tighter than my foes. That, of course, is what you should do during your training stages – and even beyond. Tight turns out [...]
It’s a really powerful concept for those of you who play shorthanded or heads-up hold’em. And for players in full-handed games, it will help explain how to play a recurring situation, too. I’m talking about the small blind, my friends. About two weeks ago, I sent an E-mail tip to my Preferred On-line Mailing List. [...]
Today, we’re going to review the most important winning concept in all of poker. You’ve heard me say that, for skillful players, the key to winning is simply playing your best game all the time. Well, years ago, I addressed this in a much more profound way, and I’m going to share it with you. [...]
The ability to multi table is one of the main reasons for online poker’s overwhelming popularity in relation to live games. I have yet to find a casino that lets me play six tables at once. Besides the fact that multi tabling passes the time more effectively, it also allows players the opportunity to increase [...]