As many of you know, as well as my day job in banking, I am a part time poker coach offering poker lessons for those looking to improve their poker game. People often question the value of poker lessons, and how a poker coach can justify the hourly rates they charge (for what its worth, [...]
A few weeks ago I added a great article from a trader by the name of Van Tharp who had simulated over 10 million poker hands and assessed the odds of winning each hand. If you havent read it you can please have a look its a great article with a very important poker lesson
Anyway below is another poker [...]
For me the most powerful move preflop is the re-raise, yet it is also one of the most misused plays in poker. Ive held numerous poker coaching sessions with amateurs and intermediates alike, and without exception, most people struggle in this area.
This poker coaching article is aimed at the beginner poker player who is playing [...]
Continuing from my poker bluffing article last week in the poker coaching blog. I thought it would be a good idea to now describe the times when a poker bluff is effective. Poker bluffing can be lethal when used at the right times, and lets face it, there is nothing more satisfying than running a [...]
One area where I feel beginners need poker coaching is that of poker bluffing. All too often, beginners see poker on TV, and think the game is all about bluffing. Whereas in reality, the hands you see are the edited ones that look good on TV. What you don’t see are the numerous hands where [...]
One of the key concepts i teach in my poker coaching courses relates to hand ranges. Simply put, this involves estimating what our opponent may have, and then acting accordingly. Its pretty common for people who havent had poker coaching, i.e. the typical amateur/novice player, to just think about their own hand, and not consider [...]
I recently got a very interesting newsletter from a Trader. This trader Van. k. Tharp seems to have started playing poker and as part of this ran a simulation to assess the odds of various poker hands winning. The results reinforce what I have been teaching in my one-to-one poker coaching sessions and my recent [...]
As you may already know, I believe in mastering the fundamentals in poker – once you master the key fundamentals it doesnt really matter what level of poker you are playing at – you will be using the same skills. One of the key skills to master is that of continuation betting. In order to [...]
The final in this series of poker coaching videos, where Johnny Aces wins an online poker tournament using just the poker starting hands chart as a guide for what hands we should be playing.
Johnny Aces shows you how to win online poker with the starting hands guide
