It’s been awhile since I’ve had something about the basics. Probably because, I wrote most of that stuff when I was learning it myself (which wasn’t that long ago). But, in my home game, we regularly have some new players who genuinely want to play better poker. The home game ends up […]
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Last night, I decide to finally combine my two passions of poker and film making. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for awhile and I just happen to have a good buddy of mine who is a top-notch Assistant Camera staying at my house while he works on a feature shooting in […]
How could that guy have beaten me? I was 80% to win!
Well, that means 2 times out of 10 you’re going to lose. Sorry buddy. I’m pretty sure you didn’t whine about the other 8 or so times you won with your pocket aces against that flop.
The bad ones have a way […]
Note from David: I’d like everyone to welcome a new writer to the Poker Penguin Team. His name is John and he’s just coming into poker. He’s been a friend of mine for awhile and I’ve always enjoyed his writing, so I invited him to come on Poker Penguin and write about […]
You use pot odds for the ability to make a call or folding. You use Pot Equity to determine the ability to make a call or raise.
Pot Equity is your percentage chance of winning the pot at any time vs. the percentage of the pot that is your share. For instance, if the […]
In previous post, I’ve talked about the different type of odds… to properly determine your odds though, you need to properly and accurately be able to count your outs.
“Counting outs” simply means determining how many cards will give you the best hand. Often you’ll find yourself in a situation where you won’t think you […]
We often have new players enter our home game and when we do, we quickly go over rules. I suggest you do this for your home games as well… or you could just refer them to this page.
Basic Rules
1. One player acts as dealer. This position is called the button […]
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