12 Steps to Poker Heaven Episode 2 Part 1

Grub Smith and Carmel Thomas return to talk the beginning player through the basics of pre-flop strategy, including assessing the opposition, table image, position poker as well as post-flop play, including betting strategies such as continuation betting, texture of the flop and turn and river play.

Learn how to spot a tight/loose/aggressive/weak player at the table and how to effectively win money from them.

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12 Steps to Poker Heaven Episode 2 Part 2

Learn to analyse the texture of the flop, decide what draws you have and how likely you are likely to be ahead with Grub Smith and Carmel Thomas.

Pot odds, overplaying, slow playing and more are discussed as we look at real life examples from the World Speed Poker Open.

12 Steps to Poker Heaven Episode 3 Part 1

The 12 Steps to Poker Heaven and playing winning poker continues in part 5 of our series with Grub Smith and Carmel Thomas.

It covers poker mistakes, including tells and he goes on to describe bluffing and how and when to make bluffs.

We also analyse some of our other poker tournaments which you can watch in full, right her on Poker Heaven TV.

12 Steps to Poker Heaven Episode 3 Part 2

Many players when they first start to play poker think it’s all about bluffing, but it’s not that simple. Knowing when to bluff if a skill that takes time to master and isn’t as easy as just shoving in your chips to scare another player off a pot.

We see successful examples when Paul Sandells, scares a player off AK when the board comes down all low cards and a failed bluff when a player calls with bottom pair, simply because of the tells you can pick up when a player is bluffing.

12 Steps to Poker Heaven Episode 4 Part 1

Step 7: Reading Players. The skill of putting your opponent on a hand and sniffing out weakness. You need to watch how your opponent plays, spot betting patterns (very important in online poker) and looks for any physical tells.

Step 8: Heads Up. What to do when you get down to the last 2 in a tournament and the game turns into full blown psychological warfare. In heads up the value of your starting hand changes, the more aggressive player usually wins and it’s much more about bluffing as both players will usually miss the flop.