Limit Texas Hold Em Strategy - Poker Tips to Improve Your Limit Wins

Dealing With Maniacs in Six Max Limit Hold ‘em

Carl outlines the challenges posed by hyper-aggressive opponents in shorthanded limit holdem

Check-Raising the River in Limit Holdem

An overview of the river check raise in limit holdem cash games

Selecting the proper level in 6-max Limit Hold ‘em

Carl provides a pocket guide to level selection in modern online shorthanded limit games

Can You Win Without Looking? Playing Shorthanded Limit Hold ‘Em Poker

Texas Hold’em is the most popular form of poker played throughout the world today. It is typically played with a maximum of 9 or 10 players. Most players are only comfortable playing at a full or nearly full table. When the game becomes shorter the quality of hands that win pots decreases dramatically and the [...]

Straddling in Limit Texas Hold’em: A Primer

Texas Hold’em is normally played with the two players to the left of the button putting up blinds. Typically the small blind is one half or two thirds the amount of the big blind with the big blind being the amount of a “small” bet (in a 20-40 game the blinds are 10 and 20). [...]

Sample Chapter From the Poker Tracker Guide

Love Poker Tracker but feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the info available? You need the Poker Tracker Guide. We like it so much that we’ve reprinted a chapter of the guide for you to check out – read it, love it and then head over to www.pokertrackerguide.com to buy the full guide. At [...]

Finesse: Flop Play in Limit Hold ‘Em

This article will cover one scenario of when to cap, and when to call the third bet on the turn in limit. The scenario:
You hold AcKh
Flop is AsKc2s
Your opponent often will be very aggressive on a flush draw on the flop. You know him to cap bets. He bets the flop, you raise, any other [...]

Don’t Punch the Fish in Limit Hold’em Poker

One of the more common mistakes players at low, and sometimes mid limit texas holdem games is to “go after” someone that took a pot off them. I see good players play marginal hands because they know that the moron/fish at the table is likely to put more money in than a normal player, or [...]

Bingo? No, but we have limit holdem…

Most games start with each player getting 2 cards, looking at those, and accessing their strength in relation to the other players on the table. I came across a game in a casino where this wasn’t the standard process. In this game first, they check to see if you have 2 cards. If you do [...]

Where are the Mistakes?

The other day a friend of mine was complaining about a bad beat. I normally charge $1.00 to listen to a bad beat, but he caught me off guard while I was online. It seems that someone had called my friend down with an ace and then hit an ace on the river to beat [...]

Changing Your Play in Limit Texas Holdem: Part 2 – The Aggressive Maniac

The aggressive maniac can change the table in a few different ways. Some players like to follow the aggressor up with a re-raise for any hand they are comfortable playing against a raise where they don’t respect the raiser. These raises are predictable and easy enough to interpret. A player with a mediocre hand like [...]

Changing Your Play in Limit Texas Holdem: Part 1 – The Loose Maniac

Every decent poker book I’ve ever read has been consistent in at least 2 things. 1- Better hands are needed in earlier positions, and 2- Change your play. Position and style varying are the hardest two things to really understand in poker and yet when you read books they barely let you know what they [...]

A little thing about position

I had a friend tell me that the books they have read say to play high level the same way you would low level if you want to make money consistently. Whatever book they read didn’t make the point very clear, as he thought that meant you should play the same hands in the same [...]

Switching From No Limit Holdem to Limit Holdem

Players switch from NL to limit for a variety of reasons – some players may just not like the bankroll swings that come with NL; some (like myself) may have taken a prop job where the only game that pays is limit; others may find that limit is just the game that suits their skills [...]

Leaks in Your Shorthanded Limit Hold ‘Em Game

Playing shorthanded limit poker can be extremely profitable – see all the reasons why you shouldn’t play shorthanded to understand why a skilled player can significantly improve their BB/hr playing short. But even good players making the transition to short play generally find they have some leaks. This article addresses some of the most common [...]