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Intermediate Poker Strategy

You feel you have mastered the basics of poker and now you're ready to take it to the next level in your poker game.  Our collection of intermediate poker strategy articles and tips will guide your development as a poker player.  The game of poker can take a lifetime to master, but with the intermediate poker strategy and tips mentioned below, it doesn't have to take that long to learn to win.

If you're just starting to play online poker, our selection of articles on basic poker strategy are available - just click here.  If you're a pro or looking to take your game to play against the professessionals do yourself a favor and read up on our library of advanced poker strategy articles. 

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Shorthanded Poker Strategy
06-Aug-2008
The popularity of 6-handed ring games instead of a full 9 or 10 man table continues to increase. The main reason for this is that it gives people the opportunity to see more hands an hour and gives them the opportunity to be more creative in their style.
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Relax Your Way to Winning at Poker
15-Feb-2008
There was a book that came out a number of years ago, Zen and the Art of Poker, that took more than a dash of Eastern Philosophy (specifically Zen) and applied it to the game we love. Taking more of a pop culture view of things, getting Zen with your poker would be more along the lines of relaxing, letting go, and being in tune.
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Poker Strategy – Sit and Go Equity
14-Feb-2008
One mistake many poker players make when they move from playing cash games to small tournament poker games like Sit and Gos is to think in terms of chips equaling dollars on a one for one basis. While chip accumulation is important to proper poker tournament strategy, the way to go about it differs from MTTs to SNGs.
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Paddy Power Poker's Dr Jack Paddy Power Poker's Dr Jack
18-Dec-2007
Have you met Dr. Jack? I don't think he's an actual doctor, but he certainly knows his stuff when it comes to poker. Paddy Power Poker keeps him around to answer your specific poker questions on everything from No Limit Hold'em to Omaha. He may not be a doctor, but he's certainly a card.
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Intermediate Poker Strategy Intermediate Poker Strategy – Do the Wrong Thing
15-Dec-2007
Sometimes in order to win at poker, you have to do exactly the wrong thing. This may sound counter to all that talk about making the right decisions when you play poker, but sometimes – like when you are hoping to catch a rag flop that makes your hand a monster – doing the wrong thing can be the right decision.
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Poker Strategy Intermediate Poker Strategy-Proper Pot Odds
28-Nov-2007
Using proper pot odds Poker Strategy is a key to winning in poker. Once you have the basics down and you know your pocket rockets from your ducks, applying intermediate poker tactics like this one will ensure your poker career is a profitable one.
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Learn to Play Break Even Poker Intermediate Poker Strategy: Learn to Play Break Even Poker
01-Nov-2007
In most competitions the idea is to win. You sit down to play a game or get up to participate in a sport, and your whole being is focused on winning. When playing online poker, however, you don't necessarily have to win to be successful—as long as you know this intermediate poker strategy and learn how to play break even poker.
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Jamie Gold masters intermediate and advanced poker strategy. Intermediate Poker Strategy: Jamie Gold on knowing yourself
18-Dec-2006
Jamie Gold, poker pro at BodogPoker, discusses the importance of self-awareness at the tables.  Self-awareness is an important poker strategy and this topic is included as part of our library of Intermediate Poker Strategy articles.
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Intermediate Poker Strategy: Poker Positions - how to stay on top
01-Nov-2006
Poker is a game of incomplete information. The more information you have, the better your decisions will be.  This article is part of our Intermediate poker strategy library and reviews how your position at the poker table can impact your success.
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Intermediate poker strategy - what to poker games to play for cash? Intermediate Poker Strategy: Play Ring Cash Games While You Wait
13-Jun-2006
Hanging around a heads up table may leave you feeling a bit like a pool hustler in an empty bar waiting for your next victim...so play some ring games!  This Intermediate poker strategy article explains why ring games are what you should play to improve your poker game.
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Why Sanity Never Helped Your Bankroll
14-May-2006
Mike Caro, or "Crazy Mike" , explains why sanity didn't help him win.
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Doyle Brunson Poker Strategy Tips - Don’t take your troubles to the table
08-May-2006
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Coping With Loss and Bad Beats
04-Feb-2006
One major problem that every poker player encounters is the ability to cope with financial loss. Ultimately it can lead to the decimation of your bankroll, loss of confidence in your game and downright dejection.
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What to do when you dont have player notes
03-Jan-2006

So you've sat down at your limit game. Despite the fact that in the few weeks that you have been playing you have been assiduously taking notes on all the players you have been up against you find yourself in a game where you don't know any of the players. What to do?
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Don't Beat Yourself Up Over Marginal Decisions
03-Jan-2006
I was screaming at myself early this morning. Furious. I had just laid down Aces on the flop in a multi-way pot, only for a pair of Kings in the hole to win more than $80. However, after a 20-minute train ride and some thinking, I decided that I didn't need to be so harsh on myself.
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Two Opponents Can Be Better Than One
03-Jan-2006

As you move up into the middle limits of Hold 'Em (say, $3-$6 and above during daylight and early evening, $5-$10 and above during the night), you discover an odd paradox. If you are pushing a hand such as AK off on a rag flop, you would often rather have two opponents than one.
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Knowing your Table Limit
13-Dec-2005

Paul Wolfe, Poker Pro at Full Tilt, tells guidetopoker about the significance of knowing your table limits.
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Statistics Analysis and Pot Odds
12-Dec-2005
Like the song says, "You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." Sure, that line from Kenny Rogers' The Gambler has become a cliché, but it accurately sums up one of the primary skills every poker player must master: the ability to figure out, right off the bat, whether your hand has a realistic shot at being a winner.
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Analysis of Poker Play
06-Dec-2005

In this Article, Rafe Furst, a Full Tilt Poker  pro, explain the importance of studying your poker play.
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Developing Intuition
16-Oct-2005
Players who are new to Chinese Poker tend to err in a number of common situations. The goal of this article is to help beginners avoid these mistakes and develop an intuition for comparing alternative plays.
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Phil Gordon, Poker pro, plays at Full Tilt Poker The signficance of Texture on the Tables
04-Oct-2005
Phil Gordon, poker pro for Full Tilt Poker, explains his theories for analysing the "texture" of the board
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The Price of Fish
16-Sep-2005
Lou Krieger poker pro for Royal Vegas Poker discusses the impact of having some fishy players in your game.
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Big Mistakes in Poker - Forgetting about winning
06-Sep-2005
When I started playing poker, I would get so excited when I flopped a big hand that I forgot my main goal: Win as many chips as possible. When I had marginal hands, I would think hard about what my opponent had and whether I could beat it. But when I had a big hand, I just wanted to get all my chips in the middle.
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The Stop-and-Go technique
26-Aug-2005
Nope, thats not a typo. Nor is it some arcane sexual manoeuvre. It is rather, a very handy trick that can be used in poker.
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What do you do when you flop top set or a nut straight and no-one else has bet yet?
26-Aug-2005

What do you do when you flop top set or a nut straight and no-one else has bet yet? Usually you will check to encourage a bet from someone who has a bit of a hand or on a bluff/semi bluff. However there are some situations when you should just come out betting strong and take what is in the middle. The following is a real situation that occurred in a tournament I played recently.

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Stack Sizes in Online Poker Games
04-Aug-2005
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Perfect Hand in No Limit Holdem
30-Jul-2005
In no limit poker, a perfect hand can refer to a perfect set of circumstances in which two or more players feel that they have a sufficiently good hand to go all-in, the outcome of which can be disastrous for one or more players and profit for another.
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The Danger of Playing Under the Gun
20-Jul-2005
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Not playing poker by the Book
13-Jul-2005
In this article Phil Gordon, Poker pro with Full Tilt explains not playing by the book.
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Taking Control at the Table
24-Jun-2005
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Free $10 from Royal Vegas Poker When Less is more - High-low split games mistakes
20-Apr-2005
High-low split games, particularly Omaha Eight-Or-Better High-Low Split and Seven-Stud Eight-Or-Better High Low Split are full of counterintuitive aspects. In this article, Lou Krieger, poker pro at Royal Vegas Poker, explains some common mistakes.
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Hey get a free $10 from Royal Vegas Poker now! Lou Krieger on Short Handed Play in Poker
19-Apr-2005

Lou Krieger represents Royal Vegas Poker. Royal Vegas gives you a free $10 to play poker (no deposit required). In this article Lou tells us about short-handed play in online poker.
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Free $10 from Royal Vegas Poker Lou Krieger on Strategy: Domination
18-Apr-2005

One of the recurring themes of poker theorists is the concept of dominated hands.  In this article Lou Krieger of Royal Vegas Poker explains the concept. You can get a free $10 credit to play poker (no deposit required at  Royal Vegas Poker )
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Omaha High-Low: Comprehensive
14-Apr-2005
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Translating Theory into Reality
04-Apr-2005
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Pot Odds vs Implied Odds
04-Apr-2005
We are now getting into the realms of pot odds and implied pot odds. An example of this is where your original bet is 100 to the pot size of 300 - meaning you are getting 3/1 for your money now. But in the future, your implied odds may be 2000 to the 100 or 20/1 because this represents the maximum you can win off your opponent in the hand as that is his stack size.
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Watching Your Opponents
04-Apr-2005
From the flop onwards you need to take care as a pre flop strong hand may now be rendered much weaker depending on what comes on the board. You need to watch your online poker opponents!
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Re-evaluate the Strength of Your Hand as You Go
04-Apr-2005

Online poker is a dynamic game and you need to constantly re-evaluate cards.
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The Cards will always break even, but the chips won’t.
04-Apr-2005

Pacific Poker writers discuss how the cards will always break even, but the chips won’t.

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Intermediate Strategy: Six-handed hold'em tables
03-Apr-2005

 
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