A lot of poker players hesitate to move up levels either in cash games or in tournaments, mistakenly believing that players are better because the stakes are higher. You will find the exact same mix of good and bad whether you`re playing $20 buy-ins or $200 buy-ins...
Posted by: Marc Weinberg at 07:29 0 Comments 12 May 2006
A common mistake amongst novice poker players is the idea that if you`re good at one type of poker game you`re naturally good at all the others. In fact, you need a different skill set, a different strategy, and in general a different approach if you want to succeed in tournaments as opposed to cash games...
Posted by: Marc Weinberg at 11:25 0 Comments 05 March 2006
The point of the Experiment is to turn a novice into a top-class poker player. We believe that this transformation can occur primarily through playing poker online. This flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which likes to separate online poker from live-game face to face poker as though they`re two different games...
Posted by: Marc Weinberg at 21:20 0 Comments 17 February 2006
Ryan has had a tough week with some poor results following on from a few glorious weeks where winning looked like the only option. How to play through these bad streaks is an important lesson to learn...
Posted by: Marc at 13:45 0 Comments 06 February 2006
Ryan, like every other novice player, has often blamed defeat on a run of cold cards. When you become an experienced player able to play different styles of poker you come to realize that "bad cards" is not a legitimate excuse. Playing your cards in the incorrect style is the real problem here...
23 June 2006
