From Daniel Negreanu at Chron.com:
The best players in the world rely on small ball poker when playing in No Limit Hold’em tournaments. And though it is the optimal strategy, it’s not meant for players of all skill levels. You must have superior hand-reading and people-reading skills for it to be effective. continue reading...
Here’s some good information on a play called “Floating”, from PokerChannelEurope.com:
Floating is another one of those poker terms that didn’t even really have a name a few years ago but is now a regular part of the modern players toolbox. Floating is, sometimes, actually just a bad players clever name for making a ridiculously fishy call but when done properly it is a bluff that is more profitable than just blindly raising and demonstrates multi-street thinking that exploits those who can’t imagine anything beyond the flop. continue reading...
From TigerWeekly.com:
There’s a misconception about tournament poker that goes like this: Players need to try frequent sophisticated bluffs and make lots of risky moves to maintain an unpredictable image and to win. Well, there might be some truth to that in small buy-in tournaments, or even online poker tournaments where the blinds and antes escalate quickly. But on poker’s biggest stage, the World Series of Poker, nothing could be further from the truth. continue reading...
