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As I wrote yesterday, implied odds are related to pot odds but often abused. Implied odds should only be used in some specific situations: Playing against an aggressive player. Playing against a calling station. Specific tactical situations where the opponent will be “priced-into” the pot and required to pay off your final bet, should you [...]

I say it all the time, so it must be important – pot odds are critical to long-term success at poker. Here’s a nice explanation of pot odds, without getting too technical, from MyHoldemTips at YouTube. Come back tomorrow, because the concept of “Implied Odds” is related, and very important, although in my opinion gets [...]

The final installment in Rick Braddy’s Sit-and-Go Tournament Tutorial. He continues to fold his small blind, trying to set up a trap. I prefer more aggressive play heads-up and win 57% of the time, lifetime, in SNGs. By accumulating chips as best I can, it enables me to take more risks heads-up, when in most [...]

The biggest mistake I see in poker tournaments, whether they are sit and go or multi-table tournaments, is the failure to adjust the player’s game to account for the variation in tournament rules versus cash game rules. I’ll be pulling together into this series as many videos on the subject of no limit holdem tournament [...]

Continuing Rick Braddy’s series of videos with mostly-solid sit and go tournament strategy and tips. At this point, we’re in the money and Rick has a big stack and he’s trying to sit back and let the other players fight it out. I prefer to let my opponents dictate the action – if there’s a [...]

Here are a few VERY general tips about No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em from MyHoldemTips, and I’m not sure how I feel about them. They just feel TOO general. But, my NLHE experience is primarily from tournaments and my cash game experience is neither wide, nor profitable. I’d like to hear what you think about [...]

Rick Braddy is back with Part 5 of his Sit and Go tutorial. Here he is in the middle game, having tightened up a bit and taking time to evaluate the other players’ strategic positions in terms of relative chip stacks and range of likely hands being played. Watch this video for an understanding of how to play the short stack, and how some players wait too long before throwing those short stacks around.

Rick Braddy starts working on the middle game in this video, with about 6 players left. He’s the chip leader here, and he talks about his philosophy of gambling with a small portion of his chips, but still trying to stay patient and let the other players play while he analyzes their play.

Here is where I start to see some differences in the way I play and the way Rick plays. Rick is the chip leader, and begins playing some pretty marginal hands out of position. At this stage, I want to play very strategically