Ruff Poker Blog
Learn Train Dominate Poker

One of the most important statistics to consider in online poker is your opponent’s VPIP % (How often your opponent voluntarily puts money in the pot) which after a mere 50 hands will give you a very good idea on whether your opponent is loose or tight, and with a sizable database you will have [...]

When I began playing poker choosing a ‘primer’ –as poker strategy books are often called-was a fairly simple process, since there were typically only a handful of books on the particular topic in print! And no, I’m not 75 years-old, I began playing poker a few years before the nuclear bomb known as Chris Moneymaker [...]

A look at Day 1a of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe
137 players registered for the first of two Day 1 flights of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, and when the smoke cleared there were but 78 players who were able to bag their chips before a much-needed day-off tomorrow. [...]

In today’s poker world it’s hard to remain an anonymous background figure, but there are a few poker players who have been able to avoid being called “The Next Big Thing” or find their every exploit endlessly discussed on the online poker forums. The ten players I have chosen are definitely well-known in the poker [...]

In today’s poker world it’s hard to remain an anonymous background figure, but there are a few poker players who have been able to avoid being called “The Next Big Thing” or find their every exploit endlessly discussed on the online poker forums. The ten players I have chosen are definitely well-known in the poker [...]

It’s hard to believe that the now extremely consistent results Ilari Sahamies -better known by his online poker alias Ziigmund- has been putting up for the better part of two years now were previously filled with tilt-filled sessions, highlighted by colorful table-chat, brought on by frustration and sometimes drinking.
Nobody has ever questioned Ziigmund’s skills at [...]

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the first 5 tips to help improve your Limit Holdem game. The first 5 tips I offered were mainly geared toward pre-flop and flop play, where the final 5 tips will focus on the Turn and River -the more difficult streets to play.

6. Bad beats happen more [...]

Although the game cannot compete with No Limit Holdem’s popularity, Limit Holdem is still one of the more popular forms of poker. However, if the game isn’t called No Limit Holdem poker players often have a difficult time finding useful information on the subject, so with that in mind here is my contribution to the [...]

In a recent blog post Daniel Negreanu opined about the way some of poker’s top players play on television. The gist of Negreanu’s comment was to point out that playing perfect poker does not make for good TV. So with Negreanu’s comments in mind I have decided to choose the top 5 poker personalities on [...]

In the world of online poker multi-tabling has become the rule, not the exception. Players see the possibility to increase their win-rates by playing double, triple, perhaps 10-times as many hands in the same amount of time. Unfortunately for most poker players multi-tabling does not add anything to their win-rate, and could in fact erode [...]