http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com en-us http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com N/A editor@pokerstrategyarticles.com Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:28:47 -0600 20 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/149/1/Its-a-Matter-of-Numbers-and-Math-in-Poker-and-Blackjack/Its-a-Matter-of-Numbers-and-Math-in-Poker-and-Blackjack.html It didn't start there though because a card counting system was widely devised and available way back in the 1960's, but because you still needed some math prowess to execute the system, putting it into profitable play was an entirely different matter. Not only that, once the casinos knew about an available system, they put up hurdles as well like using multiple decks and/or cutting a random portion of the deck out of play. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/148/1/Poker-Calculator-Report---Its-The-Decision-that-Counts-Not-the-Outcome/Poker-Calculator-Report---Its-The-Decision-that-Counts-Not-the-Outcome.html Poker is a game of decisions and making mostly correct decisions is bound to move your bankroll upward consistently. The key here is decision making and assuming you are within your bankroll and have chosen your level wisely, you really need to start counting decisions as wins or losses because long term that is what will effect your poker progression, not suckouts. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/144/1/MZone-Tournament-Strategy-Is-Tight-Aggressive-Really-the-Best/MZone-Tournament-Strategy-Is-Tight-Aggressive-Really-the-Best.html There may frequently be long streaks between in-the-money finishes based on the very familiar situation such as this: you play it rock tight, have maybe one or two hands where you stay only slightly ahead of the blinds leaving you with a low to medium stack after the first break. This can happen time and again leaving you to really question your overall strategy. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/140/1/Poker-Calculator-Report-Holdem-Pirate-and-Holdem-Hawk-Banned-by-Poker-Stars/Poker-Calculator-Report-Holdem-Pirate-and-Holdem-Hawk-Banned-by-Poker-Stars.html An Operative Poker Calculator is like a secret agent working for you, collecting and mining player information that you can use against them later on. The thing is, you dont have to be at the table for this to happen. The software (database) is working all the time for you. For most poker sites, that is over the line of fairness, just as in real life as well. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/133/1/Poker-Sit-and-Go-Report-The-First-or-Third-Strategy/Poker-Sit-and-Go-Report-The-First-or-Third-Strategy.html If you place in the money (ITM) in sit and go tournaments it means that you have risen above the average and defeated six or seven other opponents to get to the final three. An above average performance means that you reach the money more than 30% of the time. This is a result of simple math. Ten players at a table, only three make the money. Therefore, if you can place more than 30% of the time, you are above average. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/131/1/Can-a-Poker-Odds-Calculator-Really-Help-You-Win/Can-a-Poker-Odds-Calculator-Really-Help-You-Win.html During your online poker playing career there will be times during a game of hold em that you will look at your hole cards and will not be sure what to do. You will ask yourself, should I bet? Shoud I call? Should I raise? Can a poker odds calculator really help you make these decisions? crzylikafx@optonline.net (Michael Vall) Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/118/1/Poker-Calculator-Report-Becoming-too-reliant-on-software/Poker-Calculator-Report-Becoming-too-reliant-on-software.html I have had the pleasure and challenge of reviewing nearly all of the poker calculators available on the market today, and I can firmly inform you now, that the calculations served up in any one of them should rank quite low in your decision making process. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/112/1/Full-Tilt-Poker-Report-Moving-Up-a-Level/Full-Tilt-Poker-Report-Moving-Up-a-Level.html If you have the dedication to watch a few games, a few hours a night, for a week or so ahead of moving up, you will already be at an advantage of at least half of your opponents when you sit in. In addition, while watching you should absolutely be taking notes on the players. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/111/1/Poker-Calculator-Report-Holdem-Indicator-a-new-standard/Poker-Calculator-Report-Holdem-Indicator-a-new-standard.html When using Holdem Indicator you get the distinct notion that the software designers actually play poker and understand layout and design, as much as odds in the game itself. Especially valuable in this software is the odds display that shows two vital things - your odds of winning the pot, and your pot odds when a bet is put to you. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/97/1/A-Quick-and-Easy-Lesson-in-Calculating-Outs-and-Pot-Odds-in-Poker/-A-Quick-and-Easy-Lesson-in-Calculating-Outs-and-Pot-Odds.html Calculating outs (the number of cards that could improve your hand) and pot odds (ratio of the money in the pot versus the amount required to make your next call) is often used as a basis for a Texas Holdem Poker player on whether to draw and try to make their hand. crzylikafx@optonline.net (Michael Vall) Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/96/1/How-Would-You-Like-A-Professional-Poker-Player-In-Your-Pocket/How-Would-You-Like-A-Professional-Poker-Player-In-Your-Pocket.html What if, every time you sat down to play online poker, Doyle Brunson sat down next to you? Would you win more often, be more profitable, and have more fun with a professional poker player sharing their deep expertise with you while you play? Of course you would! support@freepokerebook.co.uk (Andy Machin) Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/92/1/Final-Table-Tournament-Play-and-Your-Poker-Calculator/Final-Table-Tournament-Play-and-Your-Poker-Calculator.html Your poker calculator will say to fold hands like QTs, or AJos, but if your stack is 4 or 5 times bigger than his, this is an automatic call. I would even play more speculative hands in that spot like T9s, and pocket pairs right down to deuces. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/85/1/Poker-strategy-Its-Like-Having-A-Professional-With-You/Poker-strategy-Its-Like-Having-A-Professional-With-You.html I want to tell you about a great "secret weapon" I have with me at all times when playing poker online. It sits with me and instantly calculates pot odds before providing recommendations on whether to fold, call or raise. If you've ever folded a hand because you could't figure out pot odds quickly or you folded not knwong your "outs" and the odds of hitting, this handy bit of kit could just be what you need. support@freepokerebook.co.uk (Andy Machin) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/78/1/Poker-Calculator-Wars-Part-2-Poker-Spy-vs-Holdem-Pirate/Poker-Calculator-Wars-Part-2-Poker-Spy-vs-Holdem-Pirate.html With Poker-Spy, it is necessary to study the screen-wide spreadsheet-like data, for each player individually and then extrapolate that into your preferred data. Its not easy to do when others are waiting for you to act. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/76/1/Poker-Calculators-and-The-Slansky-Group-Hand-Rankings/Poker-Calculators-and-The-Slansky-Group-Hand-Rankings.html By clustering hands based on win rate and strength, it’s easier to keep track of basic betting strategies associated with each individual hand. For example, in Slansky Group 3 hands you will find 99, AQ, ATs, and JTs among others. The best cluster though is Slansky’s Group One which includes AA, AKs, KK, QQ, and JJ. They are going to show very high percentage win rates on your poker calculator as well as “raise, and re-raise” recommendations. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/69/1/No-Limit-Poker/No-Limit-Poker.html So, you're sitting on the dealer button and look down to find two Aces in the hole. This is going to be a good hand. As the action comes your way, player after player seem to be calling the big blind, looking to see a flop. Now the action is on you with three callers. You announce Raise, and make it two bets instead of one to see the flop. Only the small blind is scared out of the pot by your raise, and you take your once golden hand into the flop against four other players. What is this? editor@pokerstrategyarticles.com (R Mongoose) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/66/1/What-Are-the-Odds---Big-Slick-Suited/What-Are-the-Odds---Big-Slick-Suited.html Against any pair, even a lowly pair of twos, Big Slick at best a coin flip. Sometimes it is a slight underdog because if you do not create a hand with the board cards, Ace high will lose to a pair. Against hands like AQ or KQ where you have the higher of the cards in the opposing hand covered, AKs is roughly a 7 to 3 favorite. Thats about as good as it gets pre-flop with this hand. Its as good as taking AKs up against 72 offsuit. editor@pokerstrategyarticles.com (R Mongoose) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/45/1/Pot-Odds---Your-Secret-Poker-Weapon/Pot-Odds---Your-Secret-Poker-Weapon.html There are two sides to this equation which I will try and explain, odds of you getting the card you need and pot odds. Firstly odds of you getting the card you need, this one is fairly easy to understand. Its best explained using the example of a flush or straight draw, so well use a straight draw to illustrate it. editor@pokerstrategyarticles.com (Ian McIntosh) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/16/1/The-Psychology-of-Poker-Calculators---Part-1/The-Psychology-of-Poker-Calculators---Part-1.html Oh my Poker God, does this sound like me a thousand times? Yes, quite. Here's the thing. A lot of times when you're in a hand you shouldn't have been, you try and justify how you lost the hand. It's a natural human tendency to do this, and poker players know this all too well. The truth is, you looked at a KQos from early position and then had to answer a raise from the unpredictable player two seats down. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/15/1/Using-a-Poker-Calculator-to-Win-Sit-and-Go-Poker-Tournaments/Using-a-Poker-Calculator-to-Win-Sit-and-Go-Poker-Tournaments.html They calculate odds based on pot size, position, draws, and betting - but only for cash games. If you're like me and play mostly sit and go poker, you have to make moves counter to your poker calculator recommendations to be in the money consistently. These situations will occur when you are short stacked, support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/14/1/Sit-and-Go-Strategies-for-Poker-Prophecy/Sit-and-Go-Strategies-for-Poker-Prophecy.html In effect, you can use your opponent's win rate against them. Although you can change the levels of classifications on Poker Prophecy I prefer to use the provided win rate categorizations - as they seem to be right on. To win a sit and go tournament you will be in several hands along the way that are game critical intersects. In saying that, would you want your opponent to be someone that you've never played against, or a regular that you have played hundreds, or even thousands of times? support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/13/1/When-to-Know-You-Need-a-Poker-Calculator/When-to-Know-You-Need-a-Poker-Calculator.html Figure this, every table you sit at, at least 2 players have some sort of external software helping their decision process. Even for good players, that limits the profit potential. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/12/1/Poker-Calculators-and-Poker-Websites-in-Bed-Together/Poker-Calculators-and-Poker-Websites-in-Bed-Together.html Now does that mean you could be banned, penalized, or accused of cheating at your favorite poker website? Save for using a select few programs, this won't happen because while Big Poker Site is representing one thing - security and fairness, they are covertly supporting that very advantage as an additional revenue stream. Let me explain. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/11/1/Poker-Calculator-Types-and-The-Security-of-Your-Poker-Bankroll/Poker-Calculator-Types-and-The-Security-of-Your-Poker-Bankroll.html If you play online poker, then I am sure you are familiar with at least one of the online poker calculators. If you don\'t already own one, then you probably are thinking of owning one. But if a poker calculator investment is in your near future you should know the basic types and how they relate to the security of your poker account and bankroll. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/10/1/Operative-Poker-Calculators-and-why-Mr-BigPokerSite-doesnt-want-you-to-have-one/Operative-Poker-Calculators-and-why-Mr-BigPokerSite-doesnt-want-you-to-have-one.html A couple of hands in, you are heads up against another player where you both had raised the stakes up until the river, at which point he throws out a $40 bet. While you ponder a re-raise bluff, the dude at the other table that you had displaced, leans back and whispers to you, "Fold, he only plays the nuts". support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/9/1/Empirical-Poker-Calculators-and-How-they-do-Your-Job-at-the-Poker-Table/Empirical-Poker-Calculators-and-How-they-do-Your-Job-at-the-Poker-Table.html First of all, what is an Empirical Poker Calculator? Well, you will know your calculator is the empirical type (EPC) because it collects and collates table data for you, while you are seated at that very table. As well as doing the basic mathematical functions of all Poker Calculators, empirical poker calculators monitor and record the behavior of your opponents. Based on this added information, such a Poker Calculator can help support or contradict your impression of a certain opponent's grid factor, but more likely, set the framework for an hypothesis all on its' own. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/8/1/Holdem-Pirate-Poker-Calculator-and-the-use-of-the-VPIP-Meter/Holdem-Pirate-Poker-Calculator-and-the-use-of-the-VPIP-Meter.html The VPIP meter monitors individual activities and collates that into a table "tempo". In that regard, you are going to have a lot of valuable information before trying to play a hand like KQos in early position or even calling the small blind with a lousy Q2s. Conversely, the VPIP meter may be offering up scenarios to not only play those exact hands, but play them aggressively! It's important to play out of your "zone" for image strategy and this tool really helps you do it. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/7/1/Poker-Calculator-Wars-Part-1-Sit-and-Go-Shark-vs-Holdem-Pirate/Poker-Calculator-Wars-Part-1-Sit-and-Go-Shark-vs-Holdem-Pirate.html I have had the opportunity to test about 15 online poker calculators, and in all honesty, not one of them is perfect for me. That being said, among the Empirical type of poker calculators, there are two that I have used exclusively for single table, sit and go tournaments (STT). They are, Sit and Go Shark and Hold'em Pirate. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/6/1/Poker-Calculators-and-Multi-Table-Tournament-Strategies/Poker-Calculators-and-Multi-Table-Tournament-Strategies.html Having a good feel for your table's momentum or dynamics can help you combat an endless run of lousy cards. Taking down incidental, non-contested pots is the key to survival and tournament advances. But that requires intuitive information. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/5/1/Using-Your-Poker-Calculator-to-Spot-a-Pro-at-the-Table/Using-Your-Poker-Calculator-to-Spot-a-Pro-at-the-Table.html Consistent pre-flop raising is a solid indication you are dealing with a pro. Experienced players generally follow the assumption that aggressiveness, combined with solid post flop play will win a lot of pots whether you hit the flop or not. If you have a look at Hold'em Pirate's session stats, the PFR% column shows exactly the amount of raises divided by hands played. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/4/1/Poker-Calculators-and-The-Art-of-Folding---Part-1/Poker-Calculators-and-The-Art-of-Folding---Part-1.html As it were, I placed in 4 of them, earning 2 entries (multiples are refunded in cash), and getting some extra cash in the other two. One tournament I did not place was the result of an ugly draw out by an inexperienced player. The other was a situation where I should have folded, but greed overcame me. Herein lies the beauty of using a poker calculator - it will give you the power to fold, when you are so inclined to take advice. That one tournament, I wasn't. But here is a situation that arose in the other tournament qualifiers where I seized the art of folding. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/3/1/Building-an-Online-Poker-Bankroll-by-Playing-Sit-and-Go-Tournaments/Building-an-Online-Poker-Bankroll-by-Playing-Sit-and-Go-Tournaments.html I have moved into the smaller percentage of players that actually win money. This involves game selection, emotional control, and specific odds strategy, and bankroll management. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.pokerstrategyarticles.com/articles/2/1/When-to-Ignore-Your-Poker-Calculator/When-to-Ignore-Your-Poker-Calculator.html Your online poker calculator is probably the best internet friend you could ever have, but as with most friends, sometimes you have to use your own better judgment. support@pokercalculatorreport.com (Marty Smith) Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0600