Category: Online Poker

If you bought a ticket to the river in Razz, you probably have a good read on your oppo- nent’s hand and figure to have them beat or to have...

Seven-card Stud high-low can be a tough game to figure out on the river. Players don’t need to declare whether they’re going high, low, or both, so your hand-reading skills...

Unlike the river card in a flop game, you don’t gain any new information when the last card comes out in a Stud game. You can, however, use the probability,...

In general, the rules for playing the high side of an Omaha high-low hand are the same as they are when you play straight Omaha high, when the board has...

The texture of the board matters a great deal when you don’t quite have the nuts but do have a strong hand in Omaha high. One common example of a...

If you think watching the river card come out in Hold ’em is hard on your nerves, wait until you play Omaha. As an extreme example of what can happen...

You need to start thinking about folding on the river when your hand isn’t close to the strongest possible hand. Again, however, you need to take both your opponents’ tendencies...

Playing the river’s easy when you have the best possible hand, but things get a bit more complex when you have a strong hand that’s not the nuts. As an...

There’s no better feeling than seeing that last card come out and realizing you have the best possible hand. When you have the hand locked and can’t be beaten, you...

Finally, we’ll continue with the discussion of how nut-low/straight draw hands fare against high hands with little or no chance for low. You’ll remember we are playing 2345. Your low...