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Waiting for Straighters

Waiting for Straighters

  Waiting for Straighters is also available in ebook  and audiobook (Amazon, Audible, iTunes) Introduction Introduction This article is about preflop play at no-limit holdem and pot-limit Omaha. It’s about basing some of your preflop decisions on whether or not you have a straighter. At holdem, a straighter is a hand that can flop a

October 6, 2018 Tommy Angelo Elements of Poker, Featured, fold before the flop, painless poker, playing tight, poker coaching, poker discipline, poker patience, poker straighter, poker tilt, poker training, poker waiting, reciprocality, straighters
On the Origin of Tightness

On the Origin of Tightness

What is tightness? And where did it come from? To find the answers, we have to travel back in time, to the birth of poker. I wasn’t actually there, but I can imagine how it happened… Fred and Barney were playing cards for the very first time. “Let’s make up a game,” Fred said. “I’ll

June 9, 2018 Tommy Angelo Elements of Poker, mental game of poker, playing tight, poker coaching, poker discipline, poker origins, poker tightness, poker tilt, poker training, reciprocality, tight is right, tilt control