Posts By: theginger45

Super Knockout and Progressive Super Knockout tournaments on PokerStars have been one of the biggest innovations in online MTTs over the past year or two. They’re becoming increasingly popular because of their ability to draw in big crowds of recreational players who are attracted to the possibility of making money without necessarily winning the tournament,… Read more »

  Traditional logic regarding how to play short-stacked poker is changing all the time. Players in today’s MTTs are constantly looking for new ways to increase their edge at short stack sizes, and as new ideas permeate into the approach of the average tournament regular, counter-adaptations to those new strategies also start to rear their… Read more »

Introduction The idea of range weighting is something that has been around in poker for some time. It’s a relatively straightforward concept – it refers to the fact that in many instances, when your opponent’s range is distributed in some way between strong hands, middling hands and weak hands, it will usually lean one way… Read more »

Introduction Having coached a lot of recreational and semi-professional players over the last year or so, I’ve noticed that there are some misconceptions that tend to arise regarding the concepts of implied odds and fold equity. In general, I find most players become familiar with these ideas early in their careers, but don’t necessarily always… Read more »

Introduction Given the speed at which poker education has progressed over the last five-to-ten years, you could be forgiven for thinking that the title of this article was somewhat ridiculous. I mean, come on, aren’t there dozens of different concepts in poker? Well, yes, of course there are. But what I aim to highlight here… Read more »

If you take your game as an MTT player seriously, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term ‘ICM’ by now. You may not be one hundred percent sure what it is, and you may be even less sure how to apply it, but you’ve surely heard people talk about it. There are a lot of misconceptions about… Read more »

If you’re the kind of player who’s proactive enough to seek out TPE as a resource for poker learning, I’d say it’s reasonable to assume you’re probably the kind of player who’s interested in working on their poker game and continuing to improve. You’re probably doing a few things to keep yourself learning, but you… Read more »

Before we get into this, let’s get one thing straight first. You do use a HUD, right? Right?Okay, good. If your poker site permits it but you don’t use one, you’re costing yourself money. There are players who succeed without them, but they’re the exception, not the rule, and they’d be better players if they… Read more »

  That might seem like a strange title for an article, and to some extent it is. But what I’d like to talk about is something that’s very relevant to a lot of people out there who are doing their best to improve their poker skills. It relates to the process of improvement and growth,… Read more »