Strategy

In my last article I posed the following question: You have 40 big blinds and raise under the gun to 2.3 big blinds. Only the big blind with the same stack calls. The flop comes 8h 7d 6h. The big blind checks. Which of the following hands would you bet, and would you use a…

In my first article, I talked about the most important concept in poker: position. Position is an important factor at every point in a hand, starting with pre-flop. Preflop we describe the 2 or 3 seats just before the button (button, cutoff, hijack) at “late position”. We describe the first 2 or 3 seats as…

Introduction My name is Dara O’Kearney. I’ve been a professional poker player for the past 14 years, primarily online where I’ve notched up over 2 million in profit, but I also play quite a bit live. Live, I have over a million in cashes and have cashed more often than any other Irish poker player.…