Have you ever been fly fishing? You have to play the fish, its all in the art of landing a big fish on light tackle. You do this by gently playing the fish, applying constant pressure but not too much pressure that something breaks. Eventually the fish tires and you real it in. Or at [...]
Sounds like a title for a self help book for the bedroom…
But what I actually meant, is to talk about how hard it is to sustain performance and keep winning. There is nothing like sport to bring you down to size, after victory. It is the teams or individuals that manage to win consistently that [...]
So we talked about betting pre-flop to show strength and to play aggressive poker. But you can also bet strongly post flop, or even after the turn and river cards. As if you’ve been waiting for a card, by just checking and then luck suddenly came your way… its my favorite bluff, but once again [...]
Advanced holdem strategy will advise to use pre-flop betting to get profitable returns. Poker school will teach you the basics of a raise or fold game, which is fine if you want to try and stay in the game and play conservative poker. However, playing this way will sometimes earn you very little return, as [...]
There have always been a couple of good Russian poker players on the circuit. But now there seems to be quite few more Russian players that are finishing at the top of the leader boards. 15 Russians have cashed thus far at the WSOP, thats not bad at all!!
So far at the WSOP Vitaly Lunkin [...]