Jim Makos Blog

Aggressive players with position against me hurt my winrate during yesterday’s play at 50NL poker tables. I lost almost 4 buy-ins in Expected Value by not playing well and trying to recoup my losses. At one point I managed to show a profit, but quickly gave it back and decided it would be a 3-hour [...]

Pokerstars gave me a 4 buy-ins birthday gift yesterday, which in fact didn’t surprise me at all! Is it just a coincidence that I was born on the fourth day of the week (beginning with Sunday, Wednesday is the 4th day), on the fourth day of the fourth month at 4:00 and on my 33rd [...]

Set mining is all about playing pocket pairs while knowingly dominated. Doesn’t make sense? Don’t worry; it makes more sense than it sounds. To set mine well, those over at www.888.com note how you will need a deep stack (200 BB if possible) as you will be dealing with high implied odds. Therefore most of [...]

The popularity of poker has dramatically increased over the last two decades with the poker-craze increasing even more in the last few years. This has been the result of media influence and the rise of the Internet which gave birth to online poker. Fans of online poker play over the Internet versus other players in [...]

If you’ve ever played in a live no limit hold’em cash game or indeed watched any of the televised cash games, chances are you’ve heard this or a similar question. But what does it mean? If someone wants to know how deep your stack is they are basically asking how much more money you have [...]

A common mistake made by tournament players going into deep stacked cash games is that they treat it like a tournament, thinking they can just sit there waiting for massive starting hands and then get paid off. This is very rarely how it plays out. In a short stacked tournament situation you’re always going to [...]

Everyone will be aware of the term cold call. Generally a cold call is when someone knocks on your door or contacts you on the telephone trying to sell you something. The term is also used in the poker industry to describe an action whereby an opponent will call after there has been a bet [...]

Playing at 6 poker tables with a winrate of 3BB/100 is the same as playing at 12 tables with a winrate of 1BB/100. That means that if you double the poker tables you play simultaneously, you don’t need to play that well in order to make the same amount of money in the same duration [...]

Very often I get asked how much money a player can make playing online poker. It depends on the type of poker game and the limits he is used to play. With a proper bankroll management, sticking to some simple rules and studying the game and the opponents he is expected to make from 1000$ [...]