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Poker Articles

If you want to keep up with all the strategy articles I've written, then look no further! Sort by topic, publication date, or alphabetical order. Some articles are available here in full. For others, check out the abstracts, and use the citations to obtain the articles in full.

Preflop All-In Match-ups

Poker Helper, Jul 2007

Anyone with a bit of tournament experience is highly familiar with the situation that occurs when players become short-stacked with respect to the blinds: people either go all-in or fold preflop. To play optimally in this dynamic, you need to know the winning percentages associated with individual hand match-ups (say AK vs. AJ). However, that’s not enough. From there, you need to figure out how to compare your hand against a distribution because you have to put your opponents on ranges of hands–the only time a range of hands can contain only one set of hole cards is if you have an extremely good read on someone (and with tournament preflop all-ins from short-stacks, such magical reads will happen rarely, if ever) ...

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