Playing a game of heads up poker or 1v1 poker is almost an entirely different game and requires a completely different mindset than playing a game of poker with a full table of opponents. Against a full table of opponents you have the liberty of sitting back a bit to wait for optimal situations to [...]

When the average person thinks about what qualities make up a good poker player it always ends up being one of a few things; good at bluffing; good poker face; good at math; or just plain lucky. Some of these may be true for some players others, such as being lucky is way off base. [...]

We completely overlooked this earlier but if you are going to be practicing your poker chip tricks at home, you will need to get a nice set of chips that is comparable to the casino chips. The best way to get a cheap set of quality poker chips is to take about 10-15 $1 chips [...]

This is Part 3 of our series explaining how to do poker chip tricks. The Mexican Jumping Chip is by far the very easiest chip trick out there, if you know of an easier chip trick please let us know in the comments. In order to correctly perform the Mexican Jumping Chip, you will need [...]

If you are interested in learning the butterfly chip trick, I am assuming you have already mastered some of the easier and most popular chip tricks such as the chip shuffle. If not, you are free to learn the butterfly but the shuffle is definitely considered to be a starting point in chip tricks. To [...]

You will learn all about how to play Razz in our Razz Explained Series. Razz is an interesting game and is basically the opposite of the popular card game, Seven Card Stud. In Seven Card Stud, players are trying to make the best possible 5 card poker hand, while in Razz, players are trying to make [...]

The chip shuffle is one of the easiest and most common poker chip trick. If you walk through a poker hall you are bound to see a handful of players at each table shuffling a stack of chips while waiting for the next hand, while mulling over a decision or even as a taunt of [...]

You will learn all about how to play Seven Card Stud in our Seven Card Stud Explained Series. Seven Card Stud is one of the oldest poker games around. Unlike Texas Hold ‘em which is a blinds based game, Seven Card Stud is ante based game. Before each hand, each player antes up in order [...]

There are a myriad of poker chip tricks out there and if you walk into a poker room, you will likely find several poker players performing some of the basic poker chip tricks. Poker chip tricks range in difficulty, some such as the chip shuffle are very easy to learn and others will take days and days of [...]

Most people who venture into Omaha poker are already familiar with the basics of Texas Hold ‘em and this is great because the two games are very similar in structure. However, there is one major difference between Omaha and Texas Hold ‘em. In Omaha each player is dealt four cards and is required to use [...]

Texas Hold ‘em Poker 101 Each player is dealt two cards There is a round of betting Three cards are dealt face up in the center of the table and can be used by every player at the table. This is known as “the flop” There is a round of betting One card is dealt [...]