Author Archives: drk

What Wordle Taught Me about Playing Poker and Having Fun

Dr. K's Wordle stats over 44 games

  I spend a lot of time studying the technical aspects of poker. I hire coaches, subscribe to training sites, run simulations myself using solvers, and I research and collect data to explore questions and theories I have. I also do a fair amount of math, building calculators and elaborate spreadsheets with graphs that visualize

Free Webinar: Strategy Prep for the WPT $5mil Freeroll with Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet

Last Saturday, high stakes professional player and WPT ambassador Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet and I hosted a free webinar about the upcoming WPT $5mil freeroll that will be hosted at the Wynn Las Vegas next week. The webinar was designed to give a in depth analysis of the unique structure of this event and strategy

Hand of the Week: HU with T2o for an Eagle Trophy

Dr. K is heads up on the BTN with T2o, 20bbs effective

  A few weeks ago, I found myself heads up for my first Eagle trophy on Global Poker. 20bbs effective, I was dealt T2o on the BTN/SB. I found this hand particularly interesting because of range/nut hand dynamics on the run out: I had all the nut hands while my opponent had few. When poker

Sometimes the Higher Variance Strategy Is Better

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Welcome to the PokerMix newsletter! I’ve been busy researching, making more courses, and upgrading the backend of the PokerMix website to be more user friendly. For example, the new course architecture now helps you track your progress and come back to where you last left off. But I also wanted to write because, well, I

Raise/Folding in LHE? ICM Tales from the Streets

A few days ago, professional poker player and limit hold’em specialist Terrence Chan posted an interesting spot from the final table of a WSOP online $2500 Limit Hold’em event. So this just happened at the final table. Anyone with a better understanding than me of ICM/tournaments want to justify it to me? pic.twitter.com/KLdnpaHsBq — Terrence