Any poker player who has played for some time has found themselves in the exact position that I am about to explain. You’re sitting there with your pocket Aces at a limit table and, for some reason, you just can’t shake the player across from you out of the hand. You bet on an innocuous [...]

When I first learned how to play poker, I adamantly stuck to the rules I had learned from watching poker on television. It seemed as though players were only raising with hands like aces, kings, or ace-queen, so I did the same and assumed that was all it took to become a winning player. [...]

We all know and love holdem bonuses. That’s why you probably came to this site in the first place. However, here are ten things I personally dislike about poker bonuses that may help guide you in the future.
1. They Expire – Depending on what site you placate, your hard-earned poker bonus may vanish if [...]

Backing another player in poker can oftentimes be done with ease. Many players who loan money to others do so without any written agreement. Instead, a handshake or Instant Messenger conversation is sometimes all that is required. However, is this the optimal way to conduct business? Holdem Bonuses will share with you some of [...]

In baseball, one of most exciting high risk, high reward plays is the suicide squeeze. If executed successfully, a run scores, often in an end-of-game, high pressure situation. If executed poorly, the runner is dead meat and any semblance of a rally is squashed. Similarly, the squeeze play in poker is high [...]

At the risk of appearing way out of the loop, I will admit I just discovered the new-fangled “Double or Nothing” Sit & Gos on PokerStars. I know that they have been around for a while, but I just haven’t been playing on Stars lately. They have turned out to be very interesting, a nice [...]

By Nick Laurrell
I went to Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Ranked by Sports Illustrated as the number 1 high school sports program of the 20th century, the alma mater of both Snoop Dogg and Tony Gwynn was quite a spot to see almost-NFLers work their ways from wanna-bes to gonna-bes.
I’m a Jackrabbit.
One of my high [...]

Author: Carl “The Dean” Sampson
Whenever you are sitting in relatively early position in a full-ring no-limit cash game and you get dealt a medium to high pocket pair like 88-TT, it can often leave a player in some sort of dilemma as to what is the correct course of action.
Let us take a [...]