Poker Hand Analysis from Pro Players – Page №5

The most spectacular hand of the 2016 WSOP November Nine was the unlucky set-up that cost Cliff Josephy his chance to go all the way. Down to just three players…

Top-class players have shown us over and over again how to expose bluffs even with weak holdings. Aliaksei Boika from Belarus topped off his main event championship performance at EPT…

It costs €5,300 to play in an EPT main event. Or at least in Malta it does. When you only see four hands in said main event, that means you…

To run deep in a tournament like the WSOP Main Event you need to get lucky – and you can’t afford too many mistakes. Math teacher Valentin Vornicu was having…

Will Kassouf quite simply stole the show at the 2016 WSOP Main Event. There’s an argument to be made that Kassouf will end up more memorable than most of the…

For a long time the winner of the 2014 Big One for One Drop, Dan Colman, was one of the top stacks in the 2016 WSOP Main Event. On Day…

In poker, if you can narrow down your opponent’s range while keeping your own range wide, you can do almost anything. In our feature hand this week French Winamax pro…

Poker prodigy Fedor Holz won the $111,111 Big One for One Drop at the WSOP this summer in dramatic fashion. But there was a lot more to the tournament than…

It was the perfect set-up. It ended EPT Barcelona and was completely unavoidable. But eventual winner Sebastian Malec from Poland didn’t just beat German Uri Reichenstein in the final hand…

For the last seven weeks, the World Series of Poker has kept us on the edge of our seats on a daily basis. There have been dozens of thrilling exciting…

WSOP Event #54 was won by someone playing his first major live poker event ever. His name is Hung Le. He’s a self-professed “fish” and father of five who runs…

Most players fear a check-raise on the river. It often gets us into a very unpleasant spot, as the pot odds are usually so good that a bluff becomes unlikely.…

Ole Schemion won the €100k Super High Roller title at the EPT Grand Final in Monaco a week or so ago. On his way to victory he showed amateur player…

You can’t call down three barrels with a marginal hand if you don’t have a read on your opponent, right? Especially if that opponent happens to be one of the…

Unheralded poker enthusiast/student Gilles Bernies managed an incredibly deep run in the 2016 EPT Dublin main event. It was an ill-timed bluff that finally stopped him. It takes close to…

Is it ever not entertaining – or educational – to watch Phil ivey play poker? This week we’re looking back at the $100k High Roller event at the 2016 Aussie Millions…

Few players have polarized viewers on the EPT Live stream as strongly as Scottish amateur Martin McCormick. McCormick qualified for the PCA main event via a $27 satellite and found…

What separates the top poker minds in the world from the average player? In the Super High Roller cash game at the Aria in Las Vegas in 2015, Dan Colman faces…

New 24h poker channel Poker Central has been slowly doling out footage from the Aria Super High Roller cash game filmed last summer, but it’s been worth the wait. As…

Pocket aces are the best possible starting hand in Texas Hold‘em, but there are situations when you need to let them go – especially if your opponent is someone like…