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Advanced Poker Strategy

Advanced poker strategy takes more.  More than understanding starting hand odds,  more than putting other poker players on correct hands, and more of knowing how much to bet and when; all of these poker skills are important to the average poker player. Putting them all together at a table with nine other players at your level and coming out a winner? That takes more than basic and intermediate poker strategy. Peruse the articles below for the best in advanced poker strategy and tactics.

If you're looking to brush up on the basics of online poker, take a look at our selection of articles on basic poker strategy or intermediate poker strategy.

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How to play H.O.R.S.E
22-Oct-2008
In large cash games, players often agree to play a mix of poker games rather than a single game. This reduces the edge that a single-game specialist has, and emphasises a player's breadth across multiple versions of poker.
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Poker Strategy For Playing Deep Stacks
28-Aug-2008
You have either entered a big-stacked tournament online or have qualified for a big tournament live.
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Strategy: Pot Odds
18-Aug-2008
Pot odds is one of the most fundamental parts of poker to firstly understand and then master. Any good poker player uses maths to work out whether to continue in a hand or to fold. Many players misunderstand and misuse pot odds, usually to their loss
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Playing the Short Stack
16-Jul-2008
It is inevitable at one time or another that you will find yourself short stacked in a tournament. Whether it is having a bad beat early on or simply getting deep and the blinds catching up with you. However even if you are short don't give up, remember you've got to be in it to win it!
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Poker Strategy: Avoiding going on Tilt
09-Jul-2008
Going on Tilt is a phrase that describes when a player lets his own frustrated emotions take over their usual poker strategy. The case in which this most usually occurs is when the player suffers a bad beat.
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Getting to grips with bankroll management Poker Strategy: Bankroll management
11-Jun-2008
Guidetopoker continues its series on poker strategy, this week getting  to grips with bankrolls and what you need to do to make sure you are in control of your poker finances
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Learn poker startegy - Bubble Play Poker strategy: Bubble Play
15-May-2008
In a poker tournament, the "bubble" is the point in the game at which the next player out will not win any money, but the rest of the players will be chips in. Here Guidetopoker reveal all there is to know about Bubble play
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The Heads Up SnG
28-Apr-2008
Heads Up poker has become increasingly popular over the last few years. Some say it is the purest form of poker, when one player faces off against another, and the two of them fight it out. Lucky for you there are a lot of ways to play heads up poker in sit-and-go tournaments at your favorite online poker room.
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H.O.R.S.E combines five variations of poker Ride the H.O.R.S.E to improve your game
25-Apr-2008
H.O.R.S.E is one of those poker games that at first seems like a very ungainly beast, but the longer you spend in its presence the more interesting and enticing it becomes.
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Chris Ferguson: a true pro When's a poker Pro a real pro?
23-Apr-2008
In the quest to become a professional poker pro you have bought and read every book on the game, played countless hours of online poker, practiced hiding your tells until you're nearly invisible, and mastered poker math. But are you a pro?
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The Elusive M of Poker Strategy The Elusive M of Poker Strategy
21-Apr-2008
In the James Bond stories "M" is the codename for the leader of British intelligence, the person who makes the strategic decisions that govern actions of the "00" Agents. In Poker M represents the number of small blinds plus big blinds you can pay with your current chip stack. Quite different, but still a factor that governs many a poker players decision-making.
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Rebuy to win When to Add On in a Rebuy Poker Game
16-Apr-2008
Rebuy tournaments are tricky animals. One of the benefits of tournament poker is these games feel less like gambling when you pay one buy-in and that's all the money you are risking.  When you add the rebuy to the equation, which allows you to buy back in multiple times if you bust out early in the event, more gamble is added to the game. To confuse things further, some rebuys allow add-ons. Let's take a look at this element of tournament poker and see how best to use it.
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What do you do against Antonio Esfandiari? What to do when you are outclassed in Tournament play
14-Apr-2008
If you are professional poker player or believe yourself to be playing at the same level as one you can safely skip this article. For everyone else in the poker world, listen up! You're going to find yourself sitting at a table surrounded by sharks one of these days in a no-limit Texas hold' em tournament, and you'll need to know what to do. Keep reading for the secret weapon!
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2008 World Series of Poker Qualifying Versus Direct Buy Ins
26-Mar-2008
You always have to pay, one way or another. If you want to skip to the head of the line its usually going to cost more money, and if you want to save money by waiting in line, it costs you in time. The same holds true for qualifying versus direct buy in when it comes to poker tournaments, both live and online. Which is the better strategy?
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Chat your way to a Win in Online Poker
09-Feb-2008
One of the challenging aspects of playing poker online is the lack of tells. When you play in a live setting you can see your opponent swallow when the ace hits after he reraised you pre flop and figure your top pair is beating his Kings. This is not easy to do online, where you can't see or hear your opponent. This doesn't mean you can't read them, however, especially if they like to chat.
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Keep Your Eye on the Prize in Super Satellites
08-Feb-2008
What is the goal when you sit down to a poker tournament that is a Super Satellite? That's right, it's to win the seat to the bigger event where all the money is. This means you need a ticket to ride, but many players think the goal is to win. Wait, isn't that the same thing? Not exactly, which is why so many players have trouble succeeding at the super satellite situation.
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Advanced Poker Strategy - How to Bait an All In Trap
15-Jan-2008
One of the trickier problems when playing poker is figuring out how to get paid. Not when you flop a better hand and you have a weak player at the table that is going to pay you off – you don't really DO anything to get that, it just happens.
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Advanced Poker Strategy – Jamming with Trash Hands
06-Jan-2008
There you are, despite your best efforts, sitting deep in an online poker tournament but in danger of going out. You are in the bottom ten percent of the players left and you keep getting trash hands over and over again; if you don't act soon, you are going to get blinded off.
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Advance Poker Strategy – Bull Rushing Pros
02-Dec-2007
Inspired by the recent article on the "Play a Pro" leader board contest, here is a topic worthy of adding to your advanced poker strategy notebook – the Bull Rush. The idea, while at it's heart very simple, actually takes quite a bit of finesse to pull off properly and—like all things in poker—comes with an inherent risk.
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monster hands poker strategy Monster Hands Poker Strategy
15-Nov-2007
This is it. You've been playing for an hour and holding tight while enduring rag hands and escalating blinds. You look at your computer screen and see pocket aces looking back at you. Quick- what do you do? What is your monster hands poker strategy? They key to winning a hand with a monster is not actually winning the hand.
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Advanced Poker Strategy Online. Advanced Poker Strategy: The Online Bad-Beat Myth
16-Aug-2007
There are many in the online poker community who stake claim that there are more bad beats and suck outs on virtual tables online than there are in a live game with a deck of 52 tangible plastic cards. However, after examining the situation closer, it seems that there is a logical, systematic explanation as to how it could appear this way to your average player.  Take a look at this advanced poker strategy of betting a bad beat.
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Advanced strategy for poker and blackjack Advanced Poker Strategy: Crazy Plays Are For Desperate Times
12-Aug-2007
Desperate times call for desperate measures. As you approach the end of a blackjack tournament and find yourself deep in the hole, you will sometimes have to pull some crazy plays to try and catch up. If you're confident with your advanced poker strategy then here are some crazy plays you may have to make late that you should not consider early in a tournament. 
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Advanced poker strategy - calculating outs Advanced Poker: Counting & Calculating Outs
10-Aug-2007
Poker class is in session for a lesson on advanced poker strategy.  If you'll all find your seats and take out your notebook it's time for today's lesson: counting and calculating outs-- we will be learning some of the math of poker.  (collective moan from the classroom).   Now, before you all ask for your hall pass and beg for no homework, just pay attention for a few short minutes and give it a chance.  After all, this isn't algebra or trigonometry – it is simple math, and it will help you be better equipped for decision making at the card table.
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Blackjack Strategy - Position For Advancement
09-Aug-2007
One thing I love about multi-table and multi-round blackjack tournaments, other than the obvious higher payout for finishing first, is that you generally only have to win the final table for the big moolah. In the preceding rounds, you only need to finish in the top two or three to advance through the event to the final table, which has a big impact on your strategy.
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The Stop-and-Go
09-Aug-2007
Back before Greg Raymer was the World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, he was a lowly part-time internet player like so many today.  Raymer was primarily a sit-and-go player where 9 or 10 players battle it out at a single table.  While this advanced strategy can work in live poker, it is especially suited to online poker.
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Phil Ivey has mastered advanced poker strategy. Advanced Poker Strategy: Player Points- Not Play Points
08-Aug-2007
When most online poker players log into their playing accounts and click the cashier tab, it is usually to get a quick reminder/confirmation of the funds available.  What most people don't look at, mistakenly, is the total amount of player points they have available.  This advanced poker strategy explains why player points are important to understand. 
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Poker Gripes, Flawed Thinking, and Overused Phrases
21-Jul-2007
With the proliferation of poker in the past few years so many untruths, superstitions and repetition of just plain frustrating phrases have emerged.  As much as we have had the opportunity to learn from the vastness of poker resources, others have chosen to spread their own brand of poker wisdom.  In other words, they have no idea what they are talking about. 
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Counting Cards to Win at Holdem
18-Apr-2007
If you can master the art of starting hand selection in no-limit-texas holdem, then you're well on your way to becoming a winning player. In this article, let's discuss an easy - and straight-forward approach - to this sticky situation.
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Doyles Room's Head-Up Video
08-Mar-2007
Head on over to Doyles Room to see the room's Headmaster play "Head Up" poker and listen to him laugh at the poor Mad Genius.
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Guide to Online Tournament Poker
14-Jan-2007
Deanna Goodson explains what online tournaments are, where you can play in regular online poker tournaments and which rooms are the best for online poker tournies.
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Mixed Games in Online Poker rooms
11-Jan-2007
Mixed Games are tables or tournaments that are set up so that you can play several different variants of poker in one convenient place. They’re great for those who know how to play more than just one game because the action is loose and frenetic.
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Basic Poker Strategy Hand Types - Limit Hold'em
09-Sep-2006
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How Poker Players Suffer Big Losses By "Reverse Manufacturing"
08-May-2006

Most players, even serious one, suffer much greater poker losses than they should. That makes me sad, so I'll try to fix it. One reason is that their losses are "reversed manufactured." Now there's a fancy term. What does it mean? Reverse manufactured means that those losses are the necessary byproduct of trying to manufacture a winning streak.
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Stud 8 or Better
05-Dec-2005

Stud-8 or Better is a great game. The rules are nearly identical to regular 7-Card Stud, but there's one key difference. At showdown, the pot is split; half is given to the player with the best high, and half to the player with the best low. In order to take a portion of the pot, a low hand must have no card higher than an 8. If there is no qualifying low, the high hand takes the entire pot.
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Barry Greenstein at the WSOP 2005 Barry Greenstein gives his views on calculating the odds for hold'em hands after the flop
28-Oct-2005
Poker pro  writes for Guidetopoker.com on how to calculate the odds for holdem hands after the flop.  Barry has a new book coming out in fall, check his website
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Seven card stud strategy and tactics
20-Oct-2005
Ben "bennyboi" Grundy who just won 78,000 Euros in the Betfair Swedish Open  gives a brief introduction to seven card stud strategy and tactics.
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Omaha Strategy: Drawing hands, playing aces and passing the nuts
20-Oct-2005
Ben “bennyboi” Grundy who just won 78,000 Euros in the Betfair Swedish Open explains why he likes Omaha Poker
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Guidetopoker.com Forums: Standards for medium to small pocket pairs?
17-Oct-2005
There is currently a discussion about dealing with poket pairs on the guidetopoker forums which provides some neat tips on rules of thumb to use with poker pairs.
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A-K in No-limit Texas Hold'em Tournaments
03-Apr-2005

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Advanced Strategy: Awareness, Planning & Execution
03-Apr-2005
In this article we review the 7 P maxim: proper planning prevents piss poor poker performance.
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Advanced Strategy: Interview with Antonio Esfandiari
03-Apr-2005
Interview with Antonio Esfandiari. An immigrant from Iran, Antonio quit college to become a professional magician, and turned 12-hour days of practice into a thriving professional career. Just 21 and not content with that precocious achievement, he next turned his attention to poker where... well, how can we put it? His attention has paid off in spades. Here are just a few of his achievements during his lightning rise to the top: Winner of the main event at the 2004 L.A. Poker Classic. Winner of the $2000 buy-in pot-limit hold'em event at the 2004 World Series of Poker. Youngest player ever to win a million dollar prize in a poker tournament. Youngest player to win a televised WPT event.
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