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Guides and essays for live poker players
Cash-game strategy for live $1/2–$5/10 and home games, primers for the move from a kitchen table to a card room, and essays on the thinking underneath it. Every claim sourced, every hand real.
Your First Time Playing Poker at a Casino: The Chip Rules a Home Game Never Taught You
What actually catches out a home-game player in their first casino session: the single-chip rule, string bets, protecting your hand, calling the clock, and rake.
Read →Poker Terms That Are Really Rules: Straddle, Min Raise and Short All-Ins
Most poker words are just vocabulary. A few are rules wearing a word's clothing — they decide whose turn it is and what you're allowed to do with your chips. What I got wrong about straddles, minimum raises and all-ins that don't reopen the betting.
Read →Live Poker Terms for Beginners: The Words You'll Actually Hear at the Table
A plain-English guide to the poker words a live table will say at you — hole cards, streets, blinds, position, 3-bets, gutshots and the nuts — and why most of them cost you nothing to not know yet.
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