Upswing Poker
Take your game to the next level with poker strategy guides, quizzes and courses made by world class pros.
- Website
- upswingpoker.com · all feeds from this site
- Feed URL
https://upswingpoker.com/feed/
Read it in your FeedListing reader
Or add to: Feedly Inoreader Raw feed
Latest posts
-
3 Adjustments That Make Your In-Position 3-Bets More Profitable
A player opens, you look down at KQo on the button, and you have a decision to make. Against someone who calls 3-bets with KJo and QTo, raising can build a profitable pot. Against someone who frequently 4-bets, that same hand becomes much less appealing. That’s the focus of Tim…
-
You Don’t Need The Nuts To Overbet
Most players only bomb the pot for value when they have the nuts, or at least very strong hands. It feels safe; after all, nobody likes looking foolish after firing a huge bet with one pair. The problem is that this mindset leaves lots of money on the table. In a video from the…
-
Cardle: A Free Daily Poker Quiz From Doug Polk
Every home game has one player who’s sure he’s the best at the table. The problem is that everyone else at the table is sure of the same thing. Today’s Cardle quiz settles it. Doug Polk hand-picks 5 poker hands every day, preflop and postflop, and everyone plays the same set.…
-
Lose Less, Win More: The Fundamentals of Big Blind Defense
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And in tournament poker, there are a lot of lemons. Being card dead for hours while blinds escalate, seeing a “nothing burger” flop after calling a 3-bet out of position, or investing chips over multiple streets only to completely…
-
Stop Playing GTO Against Blinds That Fold Too Much
Contrary to popular belief, preflop No-Limit Hold’em is not “solved”. Not in the sense that we don’t have GTO sims for it, but rather because a lot of people just don’t play like it, especially in lower-level fields. Does this mean that following the GTO charts is wrong? If your…
-
Single Board Bomb Pots – The Complete NLH Strategy Guide
On this page What Is a Single-Board Bomb Pot? Where You’ll Find Them Why Bomb Pots Play Differently Flop Strategy: Small, Tight, and Linear Turn and River Strategy Shallow Stacks Change the Math Four Common Leaks The Takeaway What Is a Single-Board Bomb Pot? Quick definition A…
-
3 Common Spots Where Poker Players Aren’t Aggressive Enough
Passivity gets a bad connotation in general, and it’s for a good reason. Passivity means accepting what happens without active response, initiative or resistance. Do you think we would’ve gotten where we are as a civilization if we had passively accepted our ancient state of…
-
3 Hidden River Mistakes That Are Costing You Money
The river is the street where the gap between what you see in GTO models and what happens in reality is the largest. GTO strategy is risk-neutral. You’re not. This is the core issue that drives most of your mistakes. In this article, I am going to break down 3 river mistakes…
-
Garrett Adelstein’s 5 Live Poker Tips To Boost Your Win Rate
Do you play live poker? Then this one’s for you. Garrett Adelstein is the most feared livestream player of all time. He started at the lowest stakes online and worked his way up to $1,000/$2,000 games in Los Angeles. Along the way, he became one of the biggest winners in live…
-
Sneak Peek Inside Destroy Live Cash by Garrett Adelstein
Most live pros wait for the fish to make a mistake. Garrett Adelstein attacks the whole table. Here’s how he does it. Garrett’s brand new Destroy Live Cash course hands you his entire decision-making process, from GTO baseline to exploits, across 50 of the most strategically…