Betting into a flush draw with No Limits Hold'em
You've got a good hand but there is a possible flush draw on the board, or even worse a possible flush. What do you do? Okay, you know you should bet, but how much? Too little and you'll get calls from players who have hands besides just flush outs. Too much and you'll just scare everybody away, leaving the pot rather bare. There is no easy answer, but we can try to see what happens in a few situations....

Pot and Implied Odds - Calculations for a flush draw in Hold'em
Working with pot odds and implied odds can be confusing at times. Which one should be used, and how to calculate it, are not always trivial affairs. Calling implied odds a calculation is also somewhat misleading. While pot odds are a strict calculation, implied odds require a lot of assumptions to be made. There is no strictly correct way to do the calculation and come out with the correct result. Still it adds a tool to your decision making tool belt....

Pot and Implies Odds - Calculations for a flush draw in Hold'em
Working with pot odds and implied odds can be confusing at times. Which one should be used, and how to calculate it, are not always trivial affairs. Calling implied odds a calculation is also somewhat misleading. While pot odds are a strict calculation, implied odds require a lot of assumptions to be made. There is no strictly correct way to do the calculation and come out with the correct result. Still it adds a tool to your decision making tool belt....

5 Great Ways to lose your money in Texas Hold'em
Before you can think about making any money at the tables you first have to stop losing it! It may sound silly, but not losing money is actually a very difficult level to achieve. Even a well-read and trained player can lose money. Here we present a few of the quickest ways to lose a lot of money quickly. Avoid them!...

Same flop twice in a row - common impossibilities with millions of hands
One game has just concluded and the flop for the next comes up. Whoa! You get a strange sense of deja vu. The flop is the same as the last flop. These things are supposed to be random. How can it happen twice in a row? Something must be up. But in fact such things happen so commonly that you shouldn't even take note of them....