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This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are very new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make! Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the ...

great question!!! when reaching near the bubble there are three types of players (=stack sizes): 1. those who struggle to just get into the money (and have small stacks). 2. those who have enough money to get in the money and do nothing unless they have really good hands (don't leave their comfort zone). and .. 3. those who have big stacks or medium stack ...

Of course that you can beat both systems by calling with KK+, but we are here to win and exploit our opponents, so we won't play only the nuts. You can build your own calling ranges to get the preflop equity that you want, but remember that here there is a trade-off between equity and how many times you actually win the HU battle. If you play only AA, ...

Yes he is forced to call the big blind(or raise) in order to play. The only thing is the remaining blinds and bets from now on go to the side pot. So basically player 1 can only watch the game and learn how his opponents play from an "audience" point of view (without knowing their cards) simply seeing their strategies unfold

Chris is right. A raise reopens the betting if and only if the raise is a legal (more than twice the size of the previous raise) raise. I am concerned about the logic here: "The OP remains unchanged" -> the player who "raised" is now the person who made the all-in raise, and play continues around the rest of the table, and back to his right, but no one who ...

Having such a memorization mechanism that allows you to have a decent starting hand chart in your head is only going to help you in very very early stages of learning the game. There are a lot of books and poker strategy websites where such charts can be found. I've noticed that those charts encourage you to play your hand if it's strong (medium to big ...