My latest poker strategy article, No Such Thing as a Free Hunch, is now appearing in the May issue of 2+2 Magazine:
You’ve undoubtedly heard it said before that poker is a battle for information. At least among good players, the one who has the most information about the other’s hand will be the one who gets the best of it. It stands to follow that information is worth money at the poker table.
You probably understand this concept and are willing to spend some money to avoid giving away information about your hand. When we talk about “mixing it up” or “range balancing”, we often mean playing a hand in a way that is perhaps not ideal in a vacuum but which creates deception about your ranges and makes you harder to play against in future hands.
The converse of this, ensuring that you are charging your opponents for whatever information you do give away, seems not to happen as often. This month, I’m going to discuss why this concept is important and offer some suggestions for how it ought to change the way you play.
Please let me know what you think!