Welcome to Full Tilt Poker's Pro Tips Archive. Here, you'll find a collection of past tips conducted by your favorite Full Tilt Poker pros, including Team Full Tilt members, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, John Juanda, Phil Ivey and more. Simply click on a pro's avatar or picture to open the full list of their tips, sorted by date.
Enjoy the Pro Tips Archive and remember to check back regularly for new tips from all of your favorite Full Tilt Poker pros.
Most Recent Pro Tips
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192 - Adjusting to Limit Hold’em Tournaments
Aaron Bartley - July 1st, 2009While No-Limit Hold ‘em and Limit Hold ‘em tournaments might look the same to a casual observer, they’re completely different. In a No-Limit Hold ‘em tournament, one big hand can either set you up for a run to the final table or send you home early...
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191 - Preflop Play in Pot-Limit Hold’em Tournaments
Rafe Furst - June 24th, 2009To succeed in Pot-Limit Hold ‘em tournaments, No-Limit Hold ‘em players need to make certain adjustments to their game. Perhaps the biggest modification you need to make is to ...
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190 - The Suicidal End Bluff
Adam Schoenfeld - June 17, 2009Bluffing in Limit Hold ’em is nothing like bluffing in No-Limit Hold ’em. In a Limit game, you can rarely price an opponent out of the pot if he has any kind of a made hand or draw. Sometimes you’ll try a ...
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189 - Steaming is bad but pretending to steam isn’t
Esther Rossi - June 10th, 2009I’ve been playing poker for 23 years, and one thing I can say about my play with great pride is that I never steam. In fact, that’s true of a lot of pros. In general, the more experienced a player is, the less likely he or she is to have a steam factor ...
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188 - Check-Raising the Devil
Mike Matusow - June 3rd, 2009In the second week of the 2004 Series, I just missed a final table, finishing eleventh in a $2,000 Limit Hold’em event. Daniel (Negreanu) went on to win that tournament for his third bracelet...
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187 - Becoming a Complete Poker Player
Steve Zolotow - 28th April 2009If you want to become a complete poker player, you need to learn how to play all the variations of the game. You should do this because...
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186 - Adjusting strategy mid-hand
Johan Storakers - 22nd April 2009Most of the time when you’re engaged in a poker hand, you’ll be thinking about what decisions you will make before you have to make them. For example, if you call a raise with K-Q, you’ll think to yourself ...
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185 - Climbing on the HORSE
Ali Nejad - April 15th 2009I'm aware that most poker players know me primarily as a poker commentator on shows like NBC's "Poker After Dark" and "National Heads-Up Poker Championship"...
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184 - Hand Coordination
Brandon Adams - 6th April 2009Hand coordination is the relative strength of your hand compared to your opponents’ hand, and it’s probably the single biggest factor determining whether you have ...
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183 - Selecting Starting Hands in Omaha Hi/Lo
Chip Jett - 1st April 2009I firmly believe that it's impossible to play too tight in Omaha Hi/Lo, especially in a ring game. I'll be the first to admit that it's not especially fun to play the game that tight, but if you have the ...