Crush Live Poker Article No 224: Bomb Pot
by Bart Hanson, 04/01/2018
Don’t Out Level yourself in a Bomb Pot! Watch bet sizing. One of the more interesting new aspects of No Limit Holdem is the appearance of what is called “bomb…
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04/01/2018 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 223: Configuration
by Bart Hanson, 03/04/2018
Pay attention to preflop “configuration”. You can represent a very strong range when you open from the blinds vs a button straddle. In Los Angeles, where I play 99% of…
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03/04/2018 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 222: Combo Bet
by Bart Hanson, 02/18/2018
Bets can sometimes be made in multiway pots that get better to fold and weaker to call in the form of draws. As crazy as it sounds, there are unique…
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02/18/2018 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 221: checking to check-call on the river
by Bart Hanson, 02/04/2018
Sometimes the run out is such that checking to check-call on the river is the right play. If you are familiar with a lot of the work that I do…
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02/04/2018 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 220: High only hands in PLO8
by Bart Hanson, 12/24/2017
High only hands have very little value in deep stack PLO8 cash games. PLO8 played as a cash game is not a very common form of poker. Of all of…
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12/24/2017 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 219: Considering Backdoor Equity
by Bart Hanson, 12/10/2017
You should consider backdoor equity when making a continuation bet bluff. A few years ago over at my training site, CrushLivePoker.com, I discussed a system that taught players when to…
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12/10/2017 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 218: Bet sizing patterns
by Bart Hanson, 11/26/2017
Bet sizing leads to proper hand reading. One of the advantages of playing a lot of hours is that you can pick up on common betting patterns from players that…
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11/26/2017 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 217: Facing a check call lead
by Bart Hanson, 11/12/2017
The check call lead out on the turn can be attacked. A few weeks ago I played an interesting hand in a three-bet pot at the Bicycle Casino in Los…
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11/12/2017 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 216: Choosing larger river sizing
by Bart Hanson, 10/29/2017
You can choose large sizing if you don’t think your opponent will fold top pair. Unlike the previous hand, the next day at the Commerce I got into a beautiful…
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10/29/2017 | 5 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 215: Bluffing with relative position
by Bart Hanson, 10/15/2017
Sometimes you can bluff because of relative position A few weeks ago I played an interesting hand in the $5-10NL $1500 cap game at the Commerce Casino. It was late…
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10/15/2017 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 214: Unique Main Event Situations
by Bart Hanson, 07/23/2017
Unique individual situations often arise in the Main Event. Top set in a 3 bet pot…. Since the 2017 Main Event was played a few weeks ago I thought that…
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07/23/2017 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 213: I must have the best hand
by Bart Hanson, 06/25/2017
4 bet pot hand reading reveals I must have the best hand About two hours into my session at the Bicycle Casino, gathering hands for my “100 hands at $5-$5…
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06/25/2017 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 212: Capitalizing on bet sizing mistakes
by Bart Hanson, 06/04/2017
Sometime you can call with a draw because your opponent will make bet-sizing mistakes on future streets. Right before the WSOP this past summer I decided to play two long…
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06/04/2017 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 211: draw on a double paired board
by Bart Hanson, 05/28/2017
If the situation lines up correctly sometimes you can call with a draw on a double paired board. On the surface calling with a draw on a doubled paired board…
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05/28/2017 | 4 6 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 210: Consider min raising the turn
by Bart Hanson, 04/30/2017
Sometime players will not continue with the betting lead on the river, so you should consider min raising the turn in position with a hand that you think is best. …
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04/30/2017 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 209: Calling next to act multiway
by Bart Hanson, 04/16/2017
In a multiway pot the player that calls next to act usually has a draw or a strong hand, especially from out of position. Use this to your advantage. A…
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04/16/2017 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 208: equity against opponents range
by Bart Hanson, 03/05/2017
There is a huge difference between all in equity and equity against someone’s range All-in Sometimes when we are on a downswing we take a look at the large pots…
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03/05/2017 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 207: Thin value in 3 bet pots
by Bart Hanson, 02/19/2017
Sometimes you can go you can go for thin value in a 3 bet pot. We all know that if you want to maximize your win rate in live no…
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02/19/2017 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 206: pair and a flush draw
by Bart Hanson, 02/05/2017
Think about what you want to accomplish when you flop a pair and a flush draw It is interesting how different types of players take different lines with draws. Some…
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02/05/2017 | 4 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 205: Don’t get upset over correct folds
by Bart Hanson, 01/22/2017
Don’t get upset if you make the right fold preflop and then happen to flop the nuts I was watching an old WSOP episode from 2005 the other night and…
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01/22/2017 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 204: River check raise for value
by Bart Hanson, 01/08/2017
A check raise for value on the river is a tricky play—use it wisely. Before I get into an interesting hand that I played at the Commerce $5-$10NL $500-$1500 buy…
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01/08/2017 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 203: waiting for the turn to semi-bluff
by Bart Hanson, 12/25/2016
Sometimes a semi-bluff raise on the TURN adds much more fold equity than a raise on the FLOP. About ten years ago prolific 2+2er BalugaWhale put forth a poker theorem…
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12/25/2016 | 5 6 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 202: check raise bluff the river
by Bart Hanson, 12/11/2016
Sometimes there are opportunities to check raise bluff the river especially if your opponent is not a thin value bettor. Last week I was playing in my typical $5-$10NL game…
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12/11/2016 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 201: from a bluff to a bluff catcher
by Bart Hanson, 11/13/2016
Sometimes a bluffing hand becomes a bluff catcher given the action About a week ago I was in a very wild $5-10NL game at the Commerce Casino. Stacks were very…
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11/13/2016 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 200: River check raise
by Bart Hanson, 10/30/2016
A check raise for value on the river is a tricky play—use it wisely. Before I get into an interesting hand that I played at the Commerce $5-$10NL $500-$1500 buy…
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10/30/2016 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 199: 4 flush boards
by Bart Hanson, 09/18/2016
4 flush runouts in NL Holdem cause interesting “unique” un-bluffable scenarios One of the more interesting and “absolute” situations in Holdem is boards that contain a four flush, that are…
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09/18/2016 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 198: Pot Control
by Bart Hanson, 09/04/2016
There are certain situations to pot control Pot control is really overrated in live low and mid-stakes no limit games. However, in the past, players used to wrongly implement the…
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09/04/2016 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 197: Discussion of the Main Event
by Bart Hanson, 08/07/2016
Discussion of the Main Event at the 2016 WSOP Most of the time when I write this Crush Live Poker column I speak about strategy in cash games. However, in…
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08/07/2016 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 196: Raises to overbets
by Bart Hanson, 05/15/2016
Raises to overbets are rarely bluffs If you have read my articles here before you know that I have strong opinions regarding late street raises, especially on the river. The…
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05/15/2016 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 195: You may be overplaying your hand
by Bart Hanson, 05/01/2016
If you get worried after being called when making a bet for value you may be overplaying your hand There are two major reasons to bet in No Limit Holdem—to…
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05/01/2016 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 194: Equity Consideration in PLO
by Bart Hanson, 04/03/2016
Sometimes in PLO, even if you are ahead in equity vs top set with a monster draw it may be better to wait until the turn to get all of…
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04/03/2016 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 193: opponent must be on a draw
by Bart Hanson, 03/20/2016
When the pot is large and your opponent only calls a big bet or raise without much money behind there is a good chance he’s on a draw. There are…
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03/20/2016 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 192: Ace hi at showdown
by Bart Hanson, 03/06/2016
You’d be surprised how often ace hi can be good at showdown when your opponents line is polarized. Hand from $10k LAPC Main Event. If you have read some of…
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03/06/2016 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 191: Play a hand with me; $25-$50-$100
by Bart Hanson, 02/07/2016
Play a hand with me; $25-$50-$100 vs JC Tran. Poker Night in America cash game. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to play on Poker Night in America’s…
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02/07/2016 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 190: Poker Stove in your head
by Bart Hanson, 12/27/2015
Poker Stove in your head Recently, over the last few months at my live training site, CrushLivePoker.com, we have been dealing heavily with the math of combinations and quick ways…
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12/27/2015 | 5 6 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 189: Paying attention to short stacks
by Bart Hanson, 12/13/2015
Pay attention to short stacks that you think may move all-in preflop so that you can size your raises accordingly, allowing you to force other out of the hand. …
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12/13/2015 | 5 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 188: Leaving a good game
by Bart Hanson, 11/29/2015
If you want to maximize your hours sometimes you have to leave a good game. Recently on my training site, CrushLivePoker.com I set myself up with a playing challenge.…
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11/29/2015 | 4 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 187: Forced to Play Straightforward
by Bart Hanson, 11/15/2015
When playing deep and the pot is small sometimes you are forced to play your hand straight forward Occasionally, you get into a situation where your action is so strong…
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11/15/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 186: Check raising the river
by Bart Hanson, 11/01/2015
You should have a very good reason to go for a check raise on the river. A lot of players don’t value bet thinly and will check behind If you…
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11/01/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 185: Thin value range
by Bart Hanson, 10/18/2015
Sometimes, no matter how thin your opponents’ value range is they just have it Occasionally you will run into situations where your opponent is not representing very much, especially with…
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10/18/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 184: Hand reading multiway
by Bart Hanson, 10/11/2015
Multiway action can sometimes make it easier to hand read. When you are playing against predictable opponents sometimes the nature of multiway pots makes their bets more honest. Let us…
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10/11/2015 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 183: Can my opponent be overplaying something
by Bart Hanson, 10/05/2015
You should always consider what your opponent may be overplaying when you get raised and hold a strong hand.
One of the more interesting spots that you can get…
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10/05/2015 | 4 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 182: Turning medium strength hands into bluffs
by Bart Hanson, 08/31/2015
Most players are incapable of turning medium strength hands into bluffs. Use this to your advantage when hand reading. If you have read some of my columns in the past…
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08/31/2015 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 181: Unorthodox AK hands from Poker Night in America Part 2
by Bart Hanson, 08/24/2015
A few weeks ago I embarked on an east coast poker trip to the Turning Stone Casino in upstate NY to play on Poker Night in America’s $25-$50NL cash game. …
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08/24/2015 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 180: Unorthodox AK hands from Poker Night in America Part 1
by Bart Hanson, 08/17/2015
A few weeks ago I embarked on an east coast poker trip to the Turning Stone Casino in upstate NY to play on Poker Night in America’s $25-$50NL cash game. …
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08/17/2015 | 4 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 179: Distractions
by Bart Hanson, 08/03/2015
Electronics at the table can really hurt your poker game Back in the beginning of 2012 I went on one of my worst down swings in my poker career. For…
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08/03/2015 | 4 8 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 178: Game Selection
by Bart Hanson, 07/27/2015
Sometimes the second largest game in the room is the best One of the advantages of living in Los Angeles and playing poker is the bevy of games and casinos…
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07/27/2015 | 4 8 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 177: Split Pot Tournaments
by Bart Hanson, 07/13/2015
In split pot tournaments it is tough to get knocked out. Patience and not passing the big bet street without drawing both ways is key. It is absolutely amazing how…
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07/13/2015 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 176: Stack Leveraging
by Bart Hanson, 07/06/2015
In NL tournaments forcing your opponent to risk total effective stacks through the last bet is powerful By the time you read this article, the 2015 WSOP will have concluded…
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07/06/2015 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 175: Attacking the right textures
by Bart Hanson, 06/15/2015
Straightening ragged boards are some of the best to semi-bluff vs the preflop raiser. If you want to take your no limit game to the next level you have to…
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06/15/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 174: Raising combo draws
by Bart Hanson, 06/08/2015
Just because you raise with a combo draw doesn’t always mean you will get the right price to call an all-in. One of the hands that I frequently drive as…
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06/08/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 173: Attacking your opponents range
by Bart Hanson, 06/01/2015
Most recreational players don’t bet trips strongly on a non-draw heavy paired board.
If you are looking to pick up some extra money at the poker table pay attention…
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06/01/2015 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 172: Over betting the turn
by Bart Hanson, 05/25/2015
You can sometimes over bet the turn to add maximum fold equity The act of over bet bluffing, especially on earlier streets before the river, is somewhat of a lost…
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05/25/2015 | 4 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 171: mixing up your play
by Bart Hanson, 05/11/2015
It can be good sometimes to mix up your play against aware opponents I think “mixing up your play” is one of the most overused and misplaced concepts in live…
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05/11/2015 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 170: Combo Draws Multiway
by Bart Hanson, 05/04/2015
Just because you raise with a combo draw does not mean that you will necessarily get the right price to call off your stack vs your opponents’ range—especially in multi-way…
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05/04/2015 | 3 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 169: Weak bet sizing tells
by Bart Hanson, 04/27/2015
You can really pin down the strength of someone’s hand through their bet sizing especially if they lead somewhat weak after making an aggressive play. Just like I have discussed…
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04/27/2015 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 168: Checking the river on certain run outs
by Bart Hanson, 04/20/2015
If you think your opponent has missed a draw sometimes checking the river when the highest card pairs can be a smart play from OOP. A few weeks ago I…
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04/20/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 167: Small pocket pairs out of position
by Bart Hanson, 04/13/2015
Against good players small pocket pairs from OOP are rarely profitable. If you are the type of player that limps in with any small pocket pair no matter what the…
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04/13/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 166: Maxamizing value when you back into a hand
by Bart Hanson, 04/06/2015
Often times you should bet or raise large when you back into a hand that you perceive to be the nuts. We all know that backdoor draws are very profitable…
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04/06/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 165: Stack size considerations when bluffing
by Bart Hanson, 03/30/2015
It’s very important to notice the stack sizes of your opponents when considering CBET bluffing A few articles ago I talked about how important it is to notice the number…
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03/30/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 164: Flopping two pair out of the blinds
by Bart Hanson, 03/23/2015
Against early position limpers you can play for big pots with a flopped 2 pair out of the blind on disconnected boards One of the most commonly misplayed hands in…
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03/23/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 163: Turning hands with showdown value into bluffs
by Bart Hanson, 03/09/2015
If you can get someone to fold with a certain board run out it can be sometimes better to turn your hand into a bluff than check back with good…
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03/09/2015 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 162: Fast playing the flopped nut flush
by Bart Hanson, 03/02/2015
When you flop the nut flush deep fast playing can be the most deceptive line (concept revisited) One of the first articles that I ever wrote for CardPlayer came from…
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03/02/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 161: The Perils of Slow Playing
by Bart Hanson, 02/23/2015
Waiting until a later street to raise a nut hand is not always the best line A lot of players, especially at the lower levels, get overly excited when they…
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02/23/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 160: Leading when completing draws oop
by Bart Hanson, 02/16/2015
If a scare card comes in that makes your hand and your are OOP leading is usually a better line than checking One of the things that always baffles me…
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02/16/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 159: Using preflop ranges to hand read
by Bart Hanson, 02/09/2015
A lot of hand reading has to do with pegging your opponents preflop range—raised pot, position etc. Hand reading in no limit is a skill that gets shaped with experience. …
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02/09/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 158: Check raising turn
by Bart Hanson, 02/02/2015
You can sometimes check raise the turn with overpairs to gain max value from field caller One of the things that really separates the good from the truly great players…
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02/02/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 157: Tipping
by Bart Hanson, 01/26/2015
Tipping is a necessary part of being a professional player Tipping in poker, whether it is to the dealers, floormen, cocktail waitresses, food servers etc, is one of the most…
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01/26/2015 | 3 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 156: Turn timing tells
by Bart Hanson, 01/19/2015
The pace of your opponents turn call will often times give away the strength and value of his hand One of the most common situations that occurs in No Limit…
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01/19/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 155: Chopping in drop games
by Bart Hanson, 01/12/2015
Tweet Reversal—In drop games like in California you should chop One of the first articles that I ever wrote for CardPlayer told people that they should not chop in big…
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01/12/2015 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 154: Conditional Probability
by Bart Hanson, 01/05/2015
Understanding the concept of conditional probability is the key to late street hand reading and weighted combinatorics From Wikipedia— “In probability theory, a conditional probability measures the probability of an event given that (by assumption, presumption, assertion…
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01/05/2015 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 153: Charging your opponent on the turn
by Bart Hanson, 12/29/2014
If your opponent won’t bluff and you think he is betting a draw than it is best to raise him to avoid giving a reverse free card In order to…
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12/29/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 152: Short stacks
by Bart Hanson, 12/22/2014
In general the shorter the starting stacks the less the overall skill and the greater the variance. One of the things you have to realize about big bet poker is…
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12/22/2014 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 151: Night games vs day games
by Bart Hanson, 12/15/2014
Towards the end of the night games get good because people are stuck and need to work in the morning. 2PM is different then 2AM Most people that have played…
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12/15/2014 | 4 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 150: River play
by Bart Hanson, 12/08/2014
Sometimes you can have the best hand almost always on the river but the right play is still to check-fold vs non bluffing non thin value betting competition. I host…
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12/08/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 149: A lot of information can be gained from your own hand
by Bart Hanson, 12/01/2014
You can learn a lot about someone else’s hand by looking at your own Great no limit players are more concerned with what their opponent holds as opposed to their…
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12/01/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 148: When is a scare card a scare card?
by Bart Hanson, 11/24/2014
A lot of times when the top card pairs—especially when it’s a rag—it really isn’t a scare card. Last week at Commerce I was playing the $5-10 $1500 cap game…
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11/24/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 147: Avoid pricing your opponent in with small raises
by Bart Hanson, 11/17/2014
If you feel like your opponent is on a draw don’t make a small raise with awkward stacks to feel like you have to call on the river when it…
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11/17/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 146: Attacking a weak move on a pot
by Bart Hanson, 11/10/2014
Sometimes you can “feel” when someone is making a move on a pot. It is like a sixth sense. Some inexperienced players take this too far and play too much…
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11/10/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 145: Facing river “block” bets
by Bart Hanson, 11/03/2014
Sometimes when you face a small bet on the river by your opponent you just know that he is not strong. A lot of bad players put out block bets…
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11/03/2014 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 144: Winner’s Tilt
by Bart Hanson, 10/27/2014
Luckily for me I have never really had a problem with what people consider “normal” tilt. Very early on I realized that I could not control the cards that came…
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10/27/2014 | 5 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 143: Stealing the dead money
by Bart Hanson, 10/20/2014
Whenever someone comes to me for a general “game plan” of preflop strategy I often tell them that it is ok to limp in from the first few positions with…
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10/20/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 142: Attacking limped pots
by Bart Hanson, 10/13/2014
Many times in limped pots if you play close attention to the action your opponents from out of position will play their hands “face up”. Many players will check a…
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10/13/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 141: Attacking preflop limpers
by Bart Hanson, 10/06/2014
I remember 7-8 years ago when online training sites first came out that one of their most useful pieces of advice was attacking preflop limpers. When people limped in, whether…
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10/06/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 140: Donk bets from strong players
by Bart Hanson, 09/29/2014
If you have read some of my previous columns here you know that I usually say that lead outs, often called donk bets, into preflop raisers are usually a sign…
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09/29/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 139: Suited connectors in the blinds
by Bart Hanson, 09/22/2014
We have all learned that holdings like 8♣ 7♣ are supposedly better starting hands than K♥ T♣ in No Limit Holdem. And in a deep stack cash game usually this…
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09/22/2014 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 138: You don’t always need to know how to react to a raise
by Bart Hanson, 09/15/2014
If you are familiar with a lot of the training material over on my site CrushLivePoker.com you know that I think that there are a lot of old poker adages…
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09/15/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 137: Don’t force the issue in cash games
by Bart Hanson, 09/08/2014
Right around the time of the poker boom several notable poker authors said that No Limit should be a “dead” game unless the players at the table were playing with…
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09/08/2014 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 136: Limped pots; play off of your opponent’s range
by Bart Hanson, 09/01/2014
I have written several columns in the past in Card Player about the profitability of stealing limped pots through betting or raising. A lot of players really do keep to…
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09/01/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 135: Beware of players check calling to your right
by Bart Hanson, 08/18/2014
A lot of the skill of hand reading comes from rightly assigning an accurate range of your opponent based upon their position, bet sizing and action. Most of the time…
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08/18/2014 | 3 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 134: Seat changing in nitty games
by Bart Hanson, 08/11/2014
Sometimes when a table is playing overly tight you have to make certain adjustments to increase your winrate. One of the easiest things that you can do is move to…
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08/11/2014 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 133: Don’t be scared to value bet the river
by Bart Hanson, 08/04/2014
It amazes me how often players check strong hands back when last to act on the river in live no limit games. It is as if they are only interested…
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08/04/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 132: Floating vs exploitable players
by Bart Hanson, 07/28/2014
In today’s No Limit games even the most passive players tend to know that betting on good textured boards after raising preflop usually shows a long term profit. The simple…
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07/28/2014 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 131: Delayed Double Barreling
by Bart Hanson, 07/21/2014
As you become a more experienced No Limit Holdem player you realize that a great way to increase your winrate is to learn the right cards to double barrel bluff…
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07/21/2014 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 130: Tournament players in cash games
by Bart Hanson, 07/16/2014
As we find ourselves in the middle of the WSOP I figured that it would be a good time to discuss the adjustments that we should make playing against “tournament”…
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07/16/2014 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 129: Blockers in your hand and relative hand strength
by Bart Hanson, 07/09/2014
Like most situations in no limit when determining whether or not to bluff catch you should be thinking more about your opponents’ range rather than your own. This will sometimes…
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07/09/2014 | 3 6 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 128: Breaking preflop math rules
by Bart Hanson, 06/25/2014
If you have read some of my columns before or are familiar with my training material over on CrushLivePoker.com you know that I strongly believe that in most live, restricted…
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06/25/2014 | 1 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 127: Turn bet sizing for value
by Bart Hanson, 06/18/2014
No Limit really is a game about getting the most value when you have the best hand. Television and movies glamourize bluffing and live tells but in reality when you…
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06/18/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 126: Pay attention to who is winning or losing around you
by Bart Hanson, 06/11/2014
In the current internet environment there is a load of poker training information. If someone wants to become a better player they can simply Google material and if they have…
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06/11/2014 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 125: Number of players in cbet bluffing
by Bart Hanson, 06/04/2014
There are a number of different variables that go into making a good continuation bet bluff spot. Even though, at the lower levels of no limit, most of your money…
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06/04/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 124: Make environment welcoming for recreational players
by Bart Hanson, 05/14/2014
If you are playing poker for profit, whether you are a professional or just a serious recreational player you must win money from the people that lose. These players are…
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05/14/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 123: Profitable neutral EV side bets
by Bart Hanson, 05/07/2014
Depending on where you play most rooms will have some sort of capped buy in on games at the 5-10NL level and below. This can be incredibly constricting especially when…
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05/07/2014 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 122: Limited time to play
by Bart Hanson, 04/23/2014
This may seem relatively obvious but a lot of us, even those playing poker primarily for profit, do not play full time. The longer you are around this game the…
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04/23/2014 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 121: Underbluff sizing is important
by Bart Hanson, 04/16/2014
A lot of players at the mid stakes and lower levels of no limit do not spend time thinking about their bluff bet sizing. I have seen many players make…
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04/16/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 120: Cash game staking
by Bart Hanson, 04/09/2014
One of the more common non strategy based questions that I receive on twitter or via email has to do with cash game staking. Some people want to know the…
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04/09/2014 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 119: Raising turn after flop gets check through
by Bart Hanson, 04/02/2014
Even at the lower levels of no limit these days most players understand the concept of bluffing scare cards especially when they are the preflop raiser. I have seen old…
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04/02/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 118: Countering floating
by Bart Hanson, 03/26/2014
Everyone knows how strongly I feel about a general game plan of bet folding at the mid stakes and low levels of live no limit. The simple fact of the…
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03/26/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 117: Playing laggy full ring
by Bart Hanson, 03/19/2014
When we talk about adjustments in NL holdem the looseness and tightness of your image is one of the first things that you should recognize about your own game. In…
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03/19/2014 | 4 7 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 116: Embrace Variance
by Bart Hanson, 03/12/2014
Variance in poker, as we understand it, can be a very difficult concept to deal with. No matter how sound our emotions are when we lose a big pot, not…
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03/12/2014 | 5 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 115: Unpaired boards lead to river polarization
by Bart Hanson, 03/05/2014
Even though thin value betting really is the key to increase your winrate in live NLHE games I am still amazed that people do it so infrequently at the lower…
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03/05/2014 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 114: Overplaying your hand because of sizing
by Bart Hanson, 02/26/2014
Have you ever had a sick feeling after you have made a bet or a raise? Like “uh oh I am not good here when this guy calls me.” One…
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02/26/2014 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 113: Countering blockish bets
by Bart Hanson, 02/19/2014
One of the things that you will commonly see players do at the lower stakes of live no limit is block bet. If you have never heard of this term…
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02/19/2014 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 112: Value betting in stud 8 or better
by Bart Hanson, 02/12/2014
Stud high low is one of my favorite poker games because it promotes players to tilt, and tilt badly. If you are a huge mental game fish I would highly…
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02/12/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 111: Constantly max out your buy in in capped games
by Bart Hanson, 01/15/2014
Capped no limit strategy is a very straight forward topic. Most of the time if you play extremely tight in a long handed format, bet thinly for value, know how…
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01/15/2014 | 4 8 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 110: Watch your hand selection vs short stackers
by Bart Hanson, 01/01/2014
The simple fact of the matter is the shorter stacked you are the less skill that it takes to be successful in no limit. That is why it is recommended…
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01/01/2014 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 109: Big draws don’t always mean fold equity
by Bart Hanson, 01/01/2014
Those of you who have played PLO know that sometimes in a multiway pot a non-nutty, two-way draw can be complete garbage. That is one of the costly mistakes that…
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01/01/2014 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 108: Due to combos overpairs should value bet more often
by Bart Hanson, 08/28/2013
As long as we are on this combinatorics rant I wanted to bring up another scenario where people do not realize that they are more likely to hold the best…
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08/28/2013 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 107: Don’t be scared of two pair
by Bart Hanson, 08/14/2013
If you have read or listened to my training material in the past you know how important that I think it is to make thin value bets on the river. …
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08/14/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 106: Rake considerations in small games
by Bart Hanson, 07/23/2013
It is very unfortunate nowadays in America that it is difficult to play online poker on reputable sites. Micro stakes online used to be a great way to practice and…
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07/23/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 105: Evaluating turn double barrels
by Bart Hanson, 07/19/2013
If you are familiar with the concept of barreling you know that betting cards that come on later streets that change top pair can be very effective as a bluff. …
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07/19/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 104: Donk bets on ragged boards
by Bart Hanson, 07/15/2013
If you have been playing No Limit Holdem for at least a few years by now you should have noticed that bad players often play backwards. When they have strong…
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07/15/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 103: Preflop hand selection in capped games
by Bart Hanson, 07/11/2013
Many times I have talked about the importance of playing the correct hands preflop. Hand selection is often times overlooked by both good and bad players. The bad because they…
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07/11/2013 | 5 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 102: Depolarizing your river value bet range
by Bart Hanson, 07/07/2013
If you want to become an expert no limit hold player you should really work on depolarizing your river betting range. What does this mean? Most players have a polarized…
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07/07/2013 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 101: Concentrating on most common spots
by Bart Hanson, 07/03/2013
No matter how much information you take in about No Limit Holdem the game is still 90% about winning the most money with the best hand. The great players shovel…
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07/03/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 100: Opening trash from upfront
by Bart Hanson, 06/29/2013
No matter how good you are at No Limit Holdem the simple fact of the matter is that in a nine or ten handed setting in general you will need…
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06/29/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 99: Knowing when to complete from the small blind
by Bart Hanson, 06/25/2013
We all know how enticing pot odds can be. And there isn’t a better example of “getting a great price” then when completing in the small blind after several people…
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06/25/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 98: Bluffing at low stakes
by Bart Hanson, 06/21/2013
One of the biggest mistakes that I see people make at the lower levels is overplaying their draws. The primary reason why we semi-bluff (a bluff with a draw where…
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06/21/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 97: Determining continuation bet frequency
by Bart Hanson, 06/17/2013
When determining whether or not to continuation bet as a bluff there are a number of different considerations. Image, board texture, number of players in the hand, etc. are all…
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06/17/2013 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 96: Playing tight in split pot games
by Bart Hanson, 06/13/2013
One of the most basic fundamentals of playing split pot games is to go for scoop pots. And one of the ways that you can ensure that this will happen…
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06/13/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 95: Opponents’ mistakes on later streets
by Bart Hanson, 06/09/2013
Because of the nature of shorter, restricted buy-in games most of the decisions within a hand are made preflop and on the flop . This means that players have much…
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06/09/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 94: Shot taking
by Bart Hanson, 06/05/2013
There is a fine balance between “shot taking” and playing a game in which the monetary factor effects your decision making process. Some of the best players in the world…
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06/05/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 93: The EV of happiness is underrated
by Bart Hanson, 06/01/2013
Figuring out an accurate hourly for a certain level of no limit game is one of the most common questions that I get almost on a daily basis. In theory,…
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06/01/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 92: Winrate in correlation to time played
by Bart Hanson, 05/28/2013
An interesting quandary that comes about from playing a lot of small level live no limit is the fact that the smaller capped games are actually harder to beat than…
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05/28/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 91: Concentrate on beating bad players
by Bart Hanson, 05/24/2013
Unless you are planning on playing some of the toughest games in the world most of the money that you will win in poker comes from beating bad players. This…
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05/24/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 90: Leveraging regulars’ monetary situation
by Bart Hanson, 05/20/2013
If you have ever spent a lot of time at a live poker table you will quickly realize that a lot of players like to gossip. And one of the…
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05/20/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 89: NLH is a battle for stacks
by Bart Hanson, 05/16/2013
One of the most important things that has changed over the last ten years in no limit cash games is the capped buy-in nature of smaller tables. Before the Money…
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05/16/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 88: Changing your plan depending on action
by Bart Hanson, 05/12/2013
After busting the Main Event of the WSOP this year I was absolutely miserable. We all hear the stories of the bad beats and coolers that can occur during the…
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05/12/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 87: Reading complex low boards in omaha 8 revealed
by Bart Hanson, 05/08/2013
Almost all of my previous CLPTT articles have been about live no limit cash and because I am writing this during the WSOP figured that I would include some split…
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05/08/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 86: Playing suited aces
by Bart Hanson, 05/04/2013
If you have read my previous columns you know that I think most of the money that is won and lost at the lower levels of live No Limit comes…
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05/04/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 85: Shortstack tournament play
by Bart Hanson, 04/30/2013
Since I am writing this article during the WSOP I figured I would make a foray into a tweet about live tournaments. I absolutely love the structures of the $1500s…
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04/30/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 84: Playing AK after flatting preflop
by Bart Hanson, 04/26/2013
If you are familiar with my training material on Seatopenpoker.net you know that I am sometimes a proponent of just flat calling preflop with AK in order to keep a lot…
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04/26/2013 | 3 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 83: Seat selection
by Bart Hanson, 04/22/2013
We all know that selecting the correct table can be paramount to maximizing your winrate but have you ever thought about your seat selection in terms of money? Sometimes where…
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04/22/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 82: Inducing with a draw
by Bart Hanson, 04/18/2013
The concept of inducing involves making a bet or a raise that attempts to get your opponent to make an aggressive play that he otherwise would not. Expert players will…
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04/18/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 81: Live tells
by Bart Hanson, 04/14/2013
The differences between online and live poker have been discussed at length especially over the past three or four years after Black Friday. In general, online games are tougher, more…
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04/14/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 80: Donk betting with big hands
by Bart Hanson, 04/10/2013
Fold equity, in its most simple form, refers to the chance that your opponent will fold. Usually we think of this term when we are bluffing and factor it in…
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04/10/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 79: Isoing with trash vs bad players
by Bart Hanson, 04/06/2013
One of the most controversial strategy subjects of live No Limit is the concept of over limping. Is there a place for it and when should we do it? Some…
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04/06/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 78: Playing small pocket pairs from early position
by Bart Hanson, 04/02/2013
One of the most common questions that I receive from students is “how do I play small pocket pairs from early position”. Like most everything in poker the answer is…
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04/02/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 77: Opponents who like to lose
by Bart Hanson, 03/29/2013
Just like most of the money at the higher levels are won and lost through players steaming there is a lot to say about the timing within a session when…
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03/29/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 76: Don’t be a rule stickler
by Bart Hanson, 03/25/2013
One of the most important skills in being a good, professional poker player, especially as the games toughen up, is making the recreational players feel comfortable. I have touched on…
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03/25/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 75: Opponents’ preflop raise sizing
by Bart Hanson, 03/21/2013
One of the easiest things that you can pick up about the strength of your opponents’ hand comes from his raise sizing preflop. Often times recreational players are totally unbalanced…
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03/21/2013 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 74: Consider your opponents holdings
by Bart Hanson, 03/17/2013
First level poker players are only thinking about their own hand. If they hold four to a flush they are thinking about the chances of making their draw not evaluating…
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03/17/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 73: Bet calling against good opponents
by Bart Hanson, 03/13/2013
If you have read some of my previous articles or have checked
out my training material at Seatopenpoker.net you will know that I think that the bread and butter play…
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03/13/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 72: Good nitty players are rare
by Bart Hanson, 03/09/2013
We’ve all seen these types of players before. They show up to the casino early, grab a newspaper and drink a cup of coffee at the table. Usually they are…
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03/09/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 71: Value-towning people who donkbet
by Bart Hanson, 03/05/2013
Often times, at the lower levels, players are not advanced enough to lead with big hands. And, if they do happen to lead with a monster, they are too scared…
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03/05/2013 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 70: Raise sizing in tight games
by Bart Hanson, 03/01/2013
As you get more comfortable playing post flop in No Limit Holdem cash games you start to realize that you do not mind people calling your raises when you hold…
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03/01/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 69: Bluffing frequency in small games
by Bart Hanson, 02/25/2013
Over the past eight years I’ve played in games as low as $1-$2 all the way up to $50-$100. Even at the higher stakes, with the exception of a few…
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02/25/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 68: Finding the softest game by size
by Bart Hanson, 02/21/2013
There are a lot of big egos in poker. If you listen in to some of the regulars in the higher no limit games you would think that they were…
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02/21/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 67: Check raising the turn as bluff
by Bart Hanson, 02/17/2013
If you have read my past Cardplayer articles you know that I am not a big fan of slowplaying. In fact, I think it is one of the biggest mistakes…
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02/17/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 66: Berating bad players
by Bart Hanson, 02/13/2013
This was the quote that Alan Kessler shared with me while playing in a 40-80 Omaha 8 or better game in Los Angeles. He had just berated a player during a…
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02/13/2013 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 65: Flopping trips and folding
by Bart Hanson, 02/09/2013
The deeper that you play the more comfortable that you have to be with folding big hands. If you find yourself getting in huge amounts of money with flopped trips…
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02/09/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 64: Bet sizing when flopping a monster
by Bart Hanson, 02/05/2013
Most of the money won in live no limit games is through maximizing value with the best hand. If you watch world-class players they are constantly dragging in huge pots…
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02/05/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 63: Turn check-raises
by Bart Hanson, 02/01/2013
One of the most common patterns that I see in low level, live no limit games, is turn check-raises being very strong. We, as players, commonly go through the same…
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02/01/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 62: Pattern recognition
by Bart Hanson, 01/28/2013
One of the most important tool you can use to be a successful poker player is pattern recognition. This can apply to betting patterns, action patterns, live tells etc. In…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 61: Reverse pot odds
by Bart Hanson, 01/24/2013
One the most simple yet misunderstood concepts about betting when last to act is that when you are called you have to be good more than 50% for the bet…
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01/24/2013 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 60: Game selection
by Bart Hanson, 01/20/2013
I truly believe one of the key elements in becoming a great professional gambler is having balance in your life. I have never been one for playing very long sessions…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 59: Stack to pot size ratios in bloated pots
by Bart Hanson, 01/16/2013
Most of the advice in the training material I produce relates to games with deeper stacks. My favorite level to play is $5-$10 uncapped no limit where you still get…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 58: Checking back top pair
by Bart Hanson, 01/12/2013
As more of the money in poker has switched over to big bet games often times you will see limit players making the transition to No Limit. Usually you can…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 57: Opponents checking after aggresive action
by Bart Hanson, 01/08/2013
If you are a serious poker player you know how much of an advantage it is to have position especially in big bet games. Books like the original Super System…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 56: Steaming
by Bart Hanson, 01/04/2013
One of the most important elements in making successful short-term gambles is the ability to control one’s emotions when something does not go your way. The above tweet, which I…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 55: Taking notes
by Bart Hanson, 12/31/2012
A few months ago I talked about not fooling around with electronics at the table. Using Twitter, Facebook, texting etc. can really put a hindrance on one’s game because you…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 54: Playing through a bad image
by Bart Hanson, 12/27/2012
If you have read any of my past Cardplayer articles you know how important I think short-term image should influence decision making within hands. When you are winning people naturally…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 53: Opponent’s polarized flop raising range
by Bart Hanson, 12/23/2012
People confuse the term polarization a lot even though it is a very simple concept. Simply put when someone is “polarized” they are either very strong or very weak. In…
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12/23/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 52: Delayed double barreling
by Bart Hanson, 12/19/2012
In an earlier Cardplayer column I discussed the merits of sometimes delayed continuation betting against tighter players. To put it simply, delayed betting involves not bluffing your opponent the first opportunity that…
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12/19/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 51: Bluffing the unbluffable
by Bart Hanson, 12/15/2012
One of the biggest leaks in my poker game is giving my opponents way too much credit. Sometimes I put myself in their situation and try to make a play…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 50: Preflop mistakes
by Bart Hanson, 12/11/2012
When No Limit first began to become popular around 2003, right around the time of the poker TV boom, some casino executives came up with an ingenious idea. Instead of…
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12/11/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 49: Cbetting draws in multiway pots
by Bart Hanson, 12/07/2012
One of the things that you want to do to become a better poker player is to stop thinking of situations as “standard” or “automatic”. Each scenario in a hand…
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12/07/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 48: Allowing opponents to valueown themselves
by Bart Hanson, 12/03/2012
Occasionally bad players accidentally play in an optimal way. One of the things I have noticed over the past few years is the propensity for some weak competition to allow…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 47: Donk bets
by Bart Hanson, 11/29/2012
One of the most awkward spots you can find yourself in in todays no limit games is an opponent who check calls your continuation bet on the flop and then…
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11/29/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 46: Building pots
by Bart Hanson, 11/25/2012
Whenever I see a weak player get to showdown with a flopped monster it always amazes me how little they win from the pot. The fact of the matter is…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 45: Straddling
by Bart Hanson, 11/21/2012
You have been there before. The game is tight and almost dead. You look around for a table change but there is nothing better. Someone then suggests, “Let’s get a…
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11/21/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 44: Avoid strategy talk at table
by Bart Hanson, 11/17/2012
In order to consistently win money at poker your skill level has to be greater than your opponents. Sounds simple right? Wrong. Players forget to take into account travel to…
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11/17/2012 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 43: Electronics at the table
by Bart Hanson, 11/13/2012
It was in 2005 when I sent my first text at the poker table. Some lunatic girl of my past was complaining how I wasn’t treating her right and I…
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11/13/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 42: Avoid risks early in session
by Bart Hanson, 11/09/2012
I am a huge believer in having a great image at the table. I have talked in past articles about how your hourly might be as much as two or…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 41: Turn bet sizing
by Bart Hanson, 11/05/2012
Typically, when you are playing smaller, live no limit games buy-ins are capped or are for a fixed amount. In southern California you can run into some really ridiculous structures…
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11/05/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 40: Slowplaying
by Bart Hanson, 11/01/2012
I am going to preface this segment of this article by saying I HATE SLOWPLAYING. When David Tuchman and I first started broadcasting Live at The Bike back in 2005…
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11/01/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 39: Delayed Semi-Bluffing
by Bart Hanson, 10/28/2012
There was a phrase created from one of the online tracking databases a few years ago called the “Fuzz Rule”. The Fuzz Rule stated that whenever you were raised you…
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10/28/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 38: Flat calling preflop with AK or AQ
by Bart Hanson, 10/24/2012
If you have been playing no limit for a long period of time you probably noticed that the aggression level preflop even in smaller stakes games has increased exponentially over…
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10/24/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 37: Opponents flop bet sizing
by Bart Hanson, 10/20/2012
One of the easiest patterns to pick up when dealing with weaker, inexperienced players is bet sizing. More often than not when your opponent flops what he thinks is the…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 36: What do small check raises mean?
by Bart Hanson, 10/16/2012
We have all been in the sticky situation of holding an overpair on the flop facing a raise. Is our opponent bluffing? Does he think he has the best hand but doesn’t…
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10/16/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 35: Avoid playing against good players
by Bart Hanson, 10/12/2012
For winning players poker is like an arbitrage of a financial situation. Warren buffet once said “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” I’ve written in previous…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 34: Calling too often from the blinds
by Bart Hanson, 10/08/2012
In capped games, a large percentage of your winrate is directly correlated to preflop hand selection. I cannot reiterate this enough. And one of the most common preflop mistakes low…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 33: Leveling yourself
by Bart Hanson, 10/04/2012
One of the biggest mistakes that any serious player can make is giving other players too much credit. The simple fact of the matter is that most poker players, especially…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 32: Value betting
by Bart Hanson, 09/30/2012
There is a simple equation to determine if a value bet on the river is profitable. When your bet is called, if you are good more than fifty percent of…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 31: Evaluating the turn
by Bart Hanson, 09/26/2012
Poker is a game of incomplete information. The best players take the little information that is available to them and accurately decipher what probable hands that their opponent holds. There…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 30: Check raising the pre flop raiser with draws
by Bart Hanson, 09/22/2012
I am never a fan of trying to bluff players off of over pairs at the lower levels. 95% of the money won and lost at live mid-stakes games and…
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09/22/2012 | 0 no votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 29: Opponents playing their draws
by Bart Hanson, 09/15/2012
One of the more common excuses I hear people use when explaining why they could not fold an overpair is that the board was “draw heavy’. These types of players…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 28: Taking small edges
by Bart Hanson, 09/08/2012
Cash games, unlike tournaments, are about finding any advantage in a given situation, no matter how slight. In theory, if you have a .01 percent edge in a one million…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 27: Rarely bet to “protect”
by Bart Hanson, 09/01/2012
There are primarily three reasons to bet in No limit holdem. The first and most important is betting for value. Especially at the lower levels this is where 95 percent…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 26: Value—most important concept at low stakes
by Bart Hanson, 08/25/2012
Whenever I have a new student come to me for lessons they always want to talk about a big bluff that they ran or a big call that they made.…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 25: Betting thinly for value after checking back flop
by Bart Hanson, 08/18/2012
We’ve all had it happen to us—we raise with pocket kings, get a few callers and the board comes out with an ace. We dread our luck and proceed with…
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08/18/2012 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 24: Turning counterfeited hand into a bluff
by Bart Hanson, 08/11/2012
One of the most frustrating things that can happen in big bet hold’em is having an opponents over pair in bad shape with two pair and then getting counterfeited on…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 23: Seat changing
by Bart Hanson, 08/04/2012
Many players get overly content when they are winning in a session. There maybe a lot of chips in front of you and sometimes it can be a pain to…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 22: Pot control is overrated
by Bart Hanson, 07/28/2012
I am not sure who came up with the term “pot control” but nowadays you hear it referenced much more in tournaments than in cash games. There was a time,…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 21: Characterizing unknown players
by Bart Hanson, 07/21/2012
Whenever I think about unknown players I am reminded of a hand that I played at the Commerce Casino about one year ago. The game was $5-$10 no-limit with a…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 20: Rarely check call the river
by Bart Hanson, 07/04/2012
One of the biggest mistakes that I see at the lower stakes of no-limit is the check-call on the river. In an earlier article I talked about how important it…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 19: Weak draws in multiway pots
by Bart Hanson, 06/27/2012
It is pretty rare that you find yourself drawing virtually dead when playing no-limit hold’em. Even if you get it in preflop with rags against aces usually you are going…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 18: Raise folding
by Bart Hanson, 06/20/2012
One of the most powerful tools of a world class no limit player is the raise-fold for value. Raise-folding refers to raising with what one thinks is the best hand…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 17: Running it twice
by Bart Hanson, 06/13/2012
Running the cards more than once is a way to decrease the variance in a hand by chopping the pot into multiple, smaller pots. If you run the cards twice…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 16: Chopping the blinds
by Bart Hanson, 06/06/2012
If you have ever played in live cash games you know that there is a decision to be made when everyone folds to the small blind—“Do you chop?” For those…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 15: Check raising from blinds
by Bart Hanson, 05/30/2012
People at small stakes live no limit games fall into a lot of predictable patterns. One of the most common is the propensity for them to check-raise two pair out…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 14: River play
by Bart Hanson, 05/23/2012
Whoever came up with the phrase “if I called the turn and nothing changes I have to call the river” is not experienced in big bet poker. In fact, you…
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Crush Live Poker Article No 13: Bluff catching
by Bart Hanson, 05/16/2012
The nuts change street by street. Good poker players realize that sometimes their very strong hands may only beat a bluff with the given action. Weaker players do not know…
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05/16/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 12: Implied odds
by Bart Hanson, 05/09/2012
Often times I will make really big calls with draws. In fact, I get a lot of weird looks after making a pot sized call on the turn and snap…
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05/09/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 11: Preflop math
by Bart Hanson, 05/02/2012
One of the simplest leaks to plug when playing small level no-limit cash games is calling with the wrong kind of hands preflop. Most of the time the games are…
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05/02/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 10: Backdoor flushes
by Bart Hanson, 04/25/2012
Hand reading is a critical element in becoming a big winning player at no-limit holdem. One of the most confusing things for a beginner is to recognize the possibility of…
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04/25/2012 | 5 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 9: Small flop rasies
by Bart Hanson, 04/11/2012
One of the easier things to spot in live no-limit games is the predictability of hand strength through raise sizing. Small raises on the flop, especially on wet boards, are…
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04/11/2012 | 3 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 8: Delayed cbetting
by Bart Hanson, 04/04/2012
A delayed continuation bet refers to the preflop raiser betting the turn after checking the flop. It is very difficult to make a hand in hold’em and a lot of…
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04/04/2012 | 4 1 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 7: Using oversized chips
by Bart Hanson, 04/02/2012
Recreational players do not keep close track of pot size. This becomes really evident when you see players make small bets in proportion to the pot especially on the river. …
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04/02/2012 | 4 2 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 6: Rake considerations
by Bart Hanson, 03/28/2012
One of the most common questions that I receive is about the beatablity of live low stakes no-limit games. In southern California, a $200 max buy-in game with $2-$5 blinds…
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03/28/2012 | 4 5 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 5: Limp reraising
by Bart Hanson, 03/21/2012
No-limit is a game of maximizing value. The name of the game is getting your opponents to put in money with inferior hands. You do not want to get into…
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03/21/2012 | 4 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 4: Top pair and a flush draw
by Bart Hanson, 03/14/2012
One of the most overplayed hands in live no-limit is top pair and a flush draw. It’s amazing that people will commit their entire stack not realizing that they may…
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03/14/2012 | 5 6 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 3: Session length
by Bart Hanson, 03/07/2012
You’ve probably heard it since the first day you started playing—you should leave the table when you get badly stuck. Most players do not heed this advice and continue to…
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03/07/2012 | 5 4 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 2: Bluffing scare cards
by Bart Hanson, 02/28/2012
It’s easy to spot a flush draw. As opponents become more skillful they recognize when flushes are a good part of your range and pay you off less. Normally you…
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02/28/2012 | 5 3 votes | |
Crush Live Poker Article No 1: Fastplaying flopped flushes
by Bart Hanson, 02/21/2012
One of the most commonly slowplayed hands in No Limit is the flopped nut flush. Regardless of position it is almost guaranteed that the flopped nut flush will check or…
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02/21/2012 | 5 6 votes | |