Holdem Poker Trainer

This site is mostly focused on No limit Cash games in Texas Hold’em. However, a lot of the content applies in Tournaments and Sit and Go’s as well. In general you can play the same way in the early stages of a Tournament as you do in a Cash game with the following considerations: If you have a skill advantage you want to avoid marginal all-ins, but you also want to play many hands (c...

Poker games have gotten a lot tougher the last couple of years. The win rates that were possible 2008 are just not realistic any more. That being said there is still a lot of money to be made from poker, especially if you  are practicing good Table Selection. The following is based on quite extensive research on various resources online including among others these: Pokertableratings for Cash g...

Bluffing on the river is a really import tool in your poker strategy. It can be very expensive or very lucrative depending on your skill. To find the right spots and the right opponents is an art that usually takes many years of practice. A few guidelines on bluffing in general might be a starting point. Since when you are on the river there are no more cards to come and you usually have a good i...

Bluffing is an essential skill in No Limit Texas Hold’em. And difficult. Do it too much and you lose tons of money. Do it too little and people will be able to read you very well (unless you play small stakes). On this site there are specialized articles on the most important bluff situations: 3-Betting 4-Betting Continuation betting Floating Bluffing on the river Bluffing is a complex to...

Depending on how you do Table Selection proper Seat Selection may be more or less important. If you often sit down at tables that are not full Seat Selection may be as important as Table Selection. Some players have complicated rules for how they chose a seat with different rules for maniacs, LAGs, TAGs, shortstacks etc. Personally I only have one guiding principle. Sit with position on the playe...

In the Table Selection article we stated that in order to do table selection really well we need some software that supports table selection. There are many alternatives to choose from but I believe these are the main alternatives: Pokertracker’s Table Tracker Holdem Manager’s Table Scanner PokerTableRating Premium Table Finder (not allowed by most poker rooms) Beta: TableScan Turbo ...

Good Table Selection is becoming more and more important as the average players are getting better and better, at least if you are playing above the micro-stakes. Imagine a player who plays at a big site with many tables (or have multiple sites he can choose from). He has a winrate of 0,5 BB / 100 in average at tough tables, if there is one fish at the table he is winning 1 BB/100 and if there are...

A HUD is a Heads-up display that let’s you see data that you have collected on your opponents (and your own data). The HUD is presenting data that has been collected by your Poker tracking software. The data is overlayed on your poker tables, so you can see it without taking your eyes away from the action. This can give you a lot of information on how your opponents tend to play and can help...

Before you make a bet in a poker hand you should always have a clear idea on why you are making it. Some people say there are only two reasons to bet, for value or as a bluff. On the river this is almost always true, but not necessarily earlier in the hand. Reasons for betting: Value betting – you have a hand that you believe is stronger than you opponents and you bet to extract value. In...