Poker strategy for any level: GTO, exploits, MTT play, ranges, value betting and bluffing. Expert breakdowns from active FunFarm coaches.
The industry knows dozens of stories where an entry fee of a couple of dollars turned into a million-dollar prize. Let's discuss what a satellite is in poker and recall the most striking successes of players who came from qualifiers.
We'll discuss strategy, adaptations to opponents, and other aspects of Heads-Up.
Many players underestimate the importance of the turn. For preflop there are opening hand charts, equity calculators help you figure out flop play, and on the river it's usually clear whether we're ahead or behind. The turn, meanwhile, remains an intermediate stage where it's crucial to make the most accurate decisions.
In this article we'll break down what a full house is, which full house is higher in poker, what the probability of making this combination is, and how to play it so you don't lose EV in situations where the hand seems automatically winning.
In this article, we'll break down what the river is in poker, how to correctly bet for value, when to bluff, how to react to your opponent's bets, and what mistakes beginners make on the last street.
Two Pair in Poker: Who Wins and How Not to Misjudge Your Hand Strength
Let's discuss what Heads-Up is and how the number of opponents changes the rules and strategy.
In this article, we'll break down what a draw is in poker, what types of draws exist, how to assess their strength, and when aggression with a draw becomes profitable.
How to beat the microstakes, which mistakes hold back your progress, and how much money you need to move up to the next level.
In this article, we'll break down what a squeeze is in poker, in which situations it works, which hands are suitable for it, how to choose the right bet size, and how to avoid turning this play into a source of losses.
In tournament poker, almost every player goes through the same stage. At the start of the event, the stack is deep, the blinds are small, and that means we have room to maneuver. But as the blinds grow, the tournament structure changes. A stack that seemed comfortable just a moment ago suddenly turns into a short one.
Almost every player sooner or later finds themselves in a situation where they have to risk their entire stack. Sometimes it happens preflop with a strong hand, sometimes postflop while playing a big pot, and sometimes because of a short stack in a tournament.
In tournament poker, we regularly find ourselves in situations where the standard logic of "I'm ahead, so I should play" stops working. We might have a strong hand, good equity, and favorable pot odds* — yet calling or pushing* still turns out to be a mistake over the long run.
ABI is a transition to a more disciplined and sustainable model of play. In this article, we'll talk about how to calculate your ABI and make tournament selection decisions not based on emotions, but according to a clear system.
Almost every player who starts studying poker systematically sooner or later runs into the term GTO — Game Theory Optimal, the optimal strategy from a game-theory standpoint.
In poker, we almost never make decisions against a specific hand. We play against a range — the set of combos the opponent could have arrived at the current point of the hand with. And the higher the price of the decision, the more important it is to understand how many strong hands the opponent can realistically have.
