Annie Duke

I have been noticing a trend in poker lately that was actually pointed out to me by Mike Matusow. Now to be fair Mike enjoys perhaps a little too much talking about what a donkey everyone who plays poker is. So when Mike is babbling on and on about how so and so [...]

Let’s talk frankly about implied odds. Call this an implied odds intervention if you will because many of you out there (and you know who you are) are addicted to the concept of implied odds.  Addicted because the concept allows you, gives you permission, to play more hands, make looser calls, in general give more [...]

I have noticed an alarming trend in events that have unlimited rebuys lately.  Players are making agreements to go all on during the rebuy period.  Now making any kind of agreement with another player about how you will act on your hand in a game or tournament is definitely against the rules but players justify [...]

Playing Big Hands out of Positions Heads up on a Textured Board
Playing hands out of position is always more difficult than playing in position because you don’t get to see what your opponent does before you have to make your decision.  This is particularly difficult when you have to come up with a line of [...]

We have done a pretty thorough analysis of how to deal with playing big hands after the flop when the board is uncoordinated.  Luckily, having done that gets the concepts under control we need to analyze any other situation in post flop no limit hold’em play.  That means that covering big hands on a coordinated [...]

Ok…so we have covered what to do in a heads up pot when you flop a monster on a nonthreatening board.  We covered this for both in position and out of position.  So now let’s add more people to the pot and look at what to do with these hands in multiway pots. And let’s [...]

OK, so this is going to start off sounding off topic from poker.  But I promise it is not.  You just have to bear with me. 
After this year’s World Series of Poker I felt polluted.  The thing is that the WSOP is as much an endurance event as it is a poker event and [...]

OK, so this is going to start off sounding off topic from poker.  But I promise it is not.  You just have to bear with me.
After this year’s World Series of Poker I felt polluted.  The thing is that the WSOP is as much an endurance event as it is a poker event and in [...]

When deconstructing post flop play, flopping big hands in position when the board is untextured is the easiest situation in no limit hold’em you will ever be confronted with.  So now let’s make it a little more interesting and take you out of position on the hand.  What is the optimal strategy for playing a [...]

In the last two big No Limit tournaments I played I have seen several players count a pot down, look at how much they have to call, shrug their shoulders and say, “I guess I have to call with that much money in the pot.” In situations where there was a clear fold.  For example, [...]