Posts By: Nate

  I recently played a session of 5-500 spread limit poker against a lineup that is typical of modern small- to mid-stakes big-bet games. (Structurally speaking, spread-limit poker is not “big bet” poker, but the stacks were short enough that being prevented from making a single bet or raise bigger than $500 made little practical… Read more »

  In a famous passage in “Super System”, Doyle Brunson writes: “That has always been the key to no-limit play as far as I’m concerned. I want to put my opponent to a decision for all his chips. For example, if a guy’s got twenty thousand chips and you lead-off for six or seven thousand…… Read more »

    Sometimes you’ve assessed your options as accurately as you can, and you still don’t quite know what to do. Maybe you are getting 4:1 on an all-in bet, and you think you have almost exactly 20% equity if you call. Maybe a call is hopeless, but a pot-sized raise of a pot-sized bet… Read more »