Uncategorized Archives - Advanced Poker Training Blog https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/category/uncategorized/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:29:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 97721497 The TDA Thinks We (the Players) Need to Straighten Up https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/the-tda-thinks-we-the-players-need-to-straighten-up/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/the-tda-thinks-we-the-players-need-to-straighten-up/#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:29:39 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5229 Reading through the 2026 revision of the Tournament Directors Association rules produced one clear takeaway: the TDA thinks the players need to clean up their act. Sure, there were a few minor technical changes. Like figuring out whether the big blind ante counts as part of a player’s stack in determining who had the bigger […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/the-tda-thinks-we-the-players-need-to-straighten-up/feed/ 0 5229 How This $1/$2 Stream Hand Took The Poker World By Storm https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/abby-merk-lodge-hand-table-talk/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/abby-merk-lodge-hand-table-talk/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:26:00 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5224 A $1,825 pot in a $1/$2 game got more attention this weekend than a $20 million heads-up match did. That tells you something about poker, and probably more about the internet. Here’s what happened on The Lodge poker live stream. During a $1/$2 “friendly” game, Abby “abbypoker” Merk jams A♦️5♦️ for $821 as a 4-bet […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/abby-merk-lodge-hand-table-talk/feed/ 0 5224 5 Final Table Tips That Can Save Your Tournament https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/final-table-poker-tips/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/final-table-poker-tips/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:17:39 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5212 Hey everybody, this is Alexander Fitzgerald, head coach for Advanced Poker Training, and today I’m going to give you a few tips for final tables. I know many of you are about to play more local tournaments as the kids get back into school and as you come home from summer vacations. Sometimes, when we […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/final-table-poker-tips/feed/ 0 5212 Texas Mike’s $4.26 Million High Stakes Poker Bluff, Analyzed https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/texas-mike-4-26-million-bluff-analysis/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/texas-mike-4-26-million-bluff-analysis/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:27:55 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5206 You have probably already seen the biggest pot in High Stakes Poker history. Texas Mike fired in $1.6 million with ten-high and put Eric Wasserson in a very uncomfortable spot, where he made the right call and won the pot of $4,260,000.  It’s easy to look at the hand and think Texas Mike was going […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/texas-mike-4-26-million-bluff-analysis/feed/ 0 5206 What Is PLO Poker? A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Pot Limit Omaha https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/what-is-plo-poker/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/what-is-plo-poker/#respond Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:09:22 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5196 If you’ve spent much time in a cardroom or in online poker, you will have witnessed PLO at some point. The poker format has exploded in the past few years, and a lot more No-Limit Hold’em players are either bringing it into their wheelhouse or diverting to PLO entirely. What is PLO, what does PLO […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/what-is-plo-poker/feed/ 0 5196 GTO vs Exploitative Poker Strategy: Which Approach Is Right for You? https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/gto-vs-exploitative-poker-strategy/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/gto-vs-exploitative-poker-strategy/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:58:22 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5183 Anyone who has tried to improve their poker game over the past decade has faced the same debate: GTO vs exploitative poker strategy?  It’s one of the most common questions recreational and improving players ask, and it’s usually framed as an either/or choice. Solver purists on one side, old-school intuition players on the other, and […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/gto-vs-exploitative-poker-strategy/feed/ 0 5183 What We Can Learn From the 2026 WSOP Main Event Final Table https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-final-table-lessons/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-final-table-lessons/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:35:28 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5159 Every year, the World Series of Poker Main Event gives us a masterclass under the brightest lights in the game. And the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table, won by 22-year-old Lucas Jumalon for a life-changing $10,000,000, was full of moments worth studying. Beyond the pressure and excitement, it was a live lesson in chip-lead […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-final-table-lessons/feed/ 0 5159 So… How Do You Build a Poker Bot That Plays Like a Real Person? https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-simulation-bots/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-simulation-bots/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:07:42 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5101 Now that we’ve shared the full simulation results, the obvious next question is: How did we build the 2026 WSOP Main Event bots to play like real people? Related: See our complete 2026 WSOP Main Event simulation results and Steve Blay’s official prediction People often ask me: “How can a computer possibly predict how nine […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-simulation-bots/feed/ 0 5101 One Million Simulations Later: Our 2026 WSOP Main Event Prediction https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-prediction/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-prediction/#respond Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:08:11 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5116 Between July 24 and July 26, we ran 1,000,000 simulations to produce our 2026 WSOP Main Event prediction. The results produced a clear statistical favorite. Lucas Jumalon, who enters the final table with 194 million chips, won 40.4% of our simulations. No other player came close. But tournament predictions are not always as simple as […]

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]]> https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/2026-wsop-main-event-prediction/feed/ 0 5116 Have we saved the next WSOP Main Event champion for last? https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/have-we-saved-the-next-wsop-main-event-champion-for-last/ https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/have-we-saved-the-next-wsop-main-event-champion-for-last/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:04:09 +0000 https://www.pokertraining.com/poker/blog/?p=5081 Our WSOP Main Event champion simulations are underway. As our look at the Final Nine comes to a close, we’re turning to the last three players competing for the title. Meet Lauri Saaskilahti, Han Feng and Evagoras Evagorou. Lauri Saaskilahti Chip Count: 37.5M · 7th of 9 Age: 39 Residence: Barcelona, Spain — originally from […]

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