Are you using Poker Plays You Can Use to win bigger than before? Are you innovating on the ideas you learned in the book to come up with new bluffs or value plays? Would you like to have your hand appear in a future book? The working title is More Poker Plays You Can Use. I plan […]

Normally the Stop and Go move is a tournament play because stacks are so much shorter.  The lite 4-bet shortened the stacks to the point that it was relevant in this hand. I really expect that the LAG is opening and raising lite.  It only take so long at the table to know that the […]

When I raise, I want every person left in the hand to think, “I am not sure what I should do.”  Why do I want that?  Because the alternative reaction is, “This is an easy decision.”  Here is a typical situation that falls into this bad category. Three limpers at $1-$2 and someone raises the […]

If you are looking for a torrent of the PDF of Poker Plays You Can Use by Doug Hull, I would prefer you buy a copy from me. I spent a long time working on this book. However, if you would still like a free copy, please just e-mail me (hull@threebarrelBluff.com) and explain why.  I […]

Poker Plays You Can Use is all about finding good spots for getting value, bluffing and rebluffing. These spots are found through pattern recognition. Poker Plays You Can Use shows you those patterns. For instance, not many of you notice the huge number of green VW Beetles that are driving around. I did not either until […]

I am considering an audio version of the book, Poker Plays You Can Use. Here is the first chapter:   Please let me know if you would be interested in a product like this.

I was recently featured on the Gambler’s Book Club podcast, live from the WSOP.  Listen here.   The featured image for this post was originally found here.

In Poker Plays You Can Use, Hand 11 shows me completing the small blind in a multi-way pot with Kh5h. It is checked to a player I have been studying for a while.  He bets on a board of 9h9dTd from the last position. I check-raise. I did this because I knew he never bets […]