Understand Yourself to be a Successful Poker Player
Knowing your opponents is important; knowing yourself even more so, argues Carl in this article on poker psychology.
Player Profiling: Tips For More Effective Reads
Looking to simplify and improve your processing of developing reads on your opponents? Answers on how inside.
Five Mistakes: Live Poker Cash Games
Want to clean up your live game? Here are five leaks that almost all live cash players suffer from to some degree.
Impulse Control: Strategies To Improve Discipline at the Poker Table
Need to work on your impulsive decisions? This article gives you strategies that will help you think first and act second.
Identifying and Attacking Risk Aversion
Are you too afraid of risk? Tips for analyzing your game and identifying your level of loss aversion.
Exploiting Opponent Patterns in No Limit Cash Games
Carl walks through the basics of identifying and then exploiting tendencies in your opponent’s play.
Empathy – the neglected skill
When I think about what qualities that are vital to becoming a good poker player a capacity for critical thinking, discipline, and creativity come to mind right away. But in talking to a lot of both good and great poker players over the past several years, I’ve noticed that one quality in particular that isn’t [...]
Assumptions you shouldn’t make when playing online poker
I think everyone is guilty of making assumptions to a certain extent when playing poker. Overcoming and dismissing some of the predetermined ideas you have in your head every time you sit at a table might be one of the biggest obstacles for some poker players.
The ideas I cover here are more applicable to online [...]
Control on the mound
A pitcher who can throw 103 mph is something to marvel. Big windups, big pitches, fastball screaming past batters. The type’s going to get a lot of strike outs and hype. Some poker players try to be a Nolan Ryan – blowing big bets past you, firing massive bets and raises whenever they sense weakness [...]
Dissecting a calling station
Why do calling stations, players that call way too much with second best hands, lose money in the long run? Part of the reason is their reluctance to protect their hands, but the biggest reason, the ‘smoking gun’ so to speak is their predictability.
The calling station is his own worst enemy. Rarely betting [...]
