Author Archives: Louis

Classical Showdowns

By Louis | Published: August 12, 2008
When reaching towards the end of your single-table or multi-table tournament it’s important to start playing aggressive because with the blinds going up and your stack being proportionally smaller every blind you win will add big to your stack so you don’t want to take chances when you raise you want to make a decent [...]
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Losing Pocket Kings

By Louis | Published: August 11, 2008
Doesn’t happen and shouldn’t happen too often but when it does, losing a monster such as pocket Kings is always devastating. Why? Well The only hole cards better than yours is pocket Aces. In a single-table or multi-table tournament you will usually win big when all you’re chips are in the middle. The odds of [...]
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Short Stack Donkey

By Louis | Published: August 9, 2008
As a poker player I figured the best way for you to learn anything is by learning from my mistakes… or other people’s mistakes. Well in this case you can see that I’m going to be mentioning a lot of donkeys in this category. Don’t worry though I’ll try to be unbiased =P. So let’s took [...]
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