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Short-handed poker refers to any poker table with 6 players or less. Find out how to make the relevant adjustments from full-ring gamesto keep on winning.

Find out why tilt might not be the worst thing ever and learn how to cope with it by facing some uncomfortable truths from coach/player, Melanie Weisner.

Knowing when to hold a hand and when to fold it is crucial to every poker players’ success. Check out the top five things to consider when deciding to fold.

The Dead Man’s Hand is probably one of the most well-known hands in poker. Find out the history behind this famous hand and how you should be playing it.

Can you re raise in poker? Learn the rules for minimum raise calculations, pot-sized bets & when re-raising is illegal in this complete 888poker guide!

The hijack is the position two to the right of the button (to the direct right of the cutoff). It is not considered a stealing seat like button and cutoff, but it does occasionally get opportunities to enter the pot with a slightly wider range of holdings. It acts fifth from last preflop and is sometimes referred to as ‘middle position’ on a 6-handed table.

GTO stands for ‘Game Theory Optimal’, which is a perfectly balanced, unbeatable poker strategy. GTO poker will beat any player not playing GTO.

The term Under the Gun (UTG) is typically used in poker to indicate the player who is seated directly to the left of the player in the big blind.

A poker cooler is a hand in which you play well but become a loser merely by how the cards hit the board. Learn how to cope with these type of poker hands.

In poker for every winner there has to be a loser. However, with split pot poker variants there can be more than one winner. Let’s find out how.

To shove in poker means to bet or raise all-in. It is used interchangeably with poker terms such as ‘push’ and ‘jam’. The term is naturally most popular in games with a no limit betting structure because players have the option of going all-in at any time.

Uncover the true power of a set in poker. Learn the poker set definition and grasp how to use sets to your advantage for maximum profit.

Ratholing is the act of cashing out chips from a cash game table then rebuying with a smaller amount of chips. It is considered unethical behaviour, and against the rules in many cash games. Interestingly,ratholing confers no specific advantage to the ratholer and no disadvantage to the other players at the table. In other words, there is no decent reason why ratholing should be considered unethical. It’s simply a case of players feeling bad that they can no longer win back the chips they lost to a certain villain.

An overpair is a pair in the hole that is higher than the highest card on the board. For example, in Hold’em we have QQ in the hole and the board texture is T72. We hold an overpair. This concept only makes sense in games where there are community cards, Hold’em and Omaha for example.

An inside straight draw is a type of straight draw, more commonly referred to as an open ended straight draw. We make an inside straight draw when we have four cards in rank order, allowing us to complete a straight at either end. For example, we hold 6789 in our hand and can make a straight either by hitting the Five or Ten.