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Staking, Makeup, and Selling Action: A Plain-English Guide
Staking puts a backer's money behind a player's buy-ins in exchange for a share of profits. Here's how makeup works, how profit splits se...
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How to Run (and Track) a Home Game People Come Back To
A practical guide to running a home poker game your group will actually return to: stakes, structure, banking, the end-of-night settlemen...
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Cash vs Tournaments: Where Is Your Edge?
Cash games and tournaments both offer real profit potential, but they demand different bankrolls, skill sets, and temperaments. Here is h...
Estratégia
Moving Down Stakes: The Skill Nobody Brags About
Moving down stakes is one of the most effective things a disciplined poker player can do. Here is when the data says to drop down, and ho...
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When to Move Up Stakes: A Shot-Taking System
Moving up stakes too soon is one of the most common ways players wreck their bankroll. Here's a two-gate qualification system and a concr...
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How to Track Tournament Results: ROI, ITM, and ABI Done Right
A structured guide to logging every tournament entry correctly, computing ROI, ITM%, and ABI from the right inputs, and avoiding the re-e...
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What's a Good Tournament ROI? (And How Long Until You Know)
A good tournament ROI ranges from 5% in tough small fields to 50%+ in large soft ones, but your current number is almost certainly noise ...
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How to Survive a Downswing Without Going Broke or Going Crazy
A downswing is inevitable. The players who come out the other side intact had a plan before it started: bankroll rules, when to move down...
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How Much Do $1/$2 and $2/$5 Poker Players Actually Make?
A solid $1/$2 winner clears roughly $10–$20 per hour gross, but after tips, travel, and expenses the net is often 20–40% lower. Here's th...
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Is My Downswing Normal? Live Poker Variance, Explained
Even strong winning players endure multi-buy-in losing stretches. Here's how to tell whether your downswing is normal variance or a real ...
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BB Per Hour: The Only Honest Way to Measure Live Poker Results
BB per hour normalizes your win rate across stakes so a move up in limits doesn't disguise a shrinking edge. Here's the formula, a worked...
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What's a Good Win Rate in Live Poker? Real Benchmarks by Stakes
A good win rate in live poker is roughly 5 bb/hour at most stakes, which puts you solidly in the winning minority. Here's what the number...