29 May 10

Education Review for May: Bluffs and Floats

The Education-Review provides PokerStrategists with the most important updates from our Education department on a monthly basis. You will be able to see what strategy articles, videos and quizzes we have released this month, as well as some of the most interesting hands from our hand-judging forums.

Recommended videos

In May, we released 43 new videos. All of our producers worked hard to bring you new content. They published a wide variety of videos, from the "iPlay Nanostakes" series by Gerv for Short Stack Strategy beginners to TheLastNail's "Unconventional Lines" for Big Stack Strategy experts.

Here are some of the best videos from May:

Status	Type	Name	Producer
Bronze	NL BSS	Move it, move it up to the sky	TwiceT
Bronze	NL SSS	iPlay Nanostakes	Gerv
Silver	NL BSS	TwiceT goes to Italy	TwiceT
Silver	FL	Playing short-handed	opabumbi
Silver	SNG	Running Good	chenny8888
Gold	MTT	Exploitative vs. unexploitable play	skolsuper
Gold	PLO	Leakfinder PLO	suitedeule
Gold	NL BSS	Mind the gap	siete777
Platinum	FL	Heads-up Strategy	ByronJacobs
Platinum	NL BSS	Unconventional Lines	TheLastNail

Latest strategy article

This month's strategy article is the first part of a new article series called "Bluffs". The first article is about the basics of bluffing, different pre-flop bluffs and the important factors to consider when bluffing.

Below you can find the strategy article published this month:

Status	Type	Subject	Author
Gold	NL BSS	Bluffs (1) - Preflop	MiiWiin

Previous quizzes of the week

We also continued to release our weekly quizzes in May. MiiWiin created three new BSS items for the benefit of all PokerStrategists, while firsttsunami added one new quiz for Fixed Limit players.

Test your poker knowledge by taking part in these weekly quizzes:

Status	Type	Subject	Author
Bronze	NL BSS	Loose Open Raises in Early Position	MiiWiin
Silver	FL	Various Spots (1)	firsttsunami
Silver	NL BSS	Floats (1) - Float Spots	MiiWiin
Silver	NL BSS	Floats (2) - turn bets vs. the danger of floating	MiiWiin

Interesting hands from the forums

Taking part in our hand-judging forums is another way to improve your game. Even though there are many threads posted in these forums, hand judges like Bierbaer or lessthanthreee can give you some extra advice regarding any difficult hands you may have played.

Here are some of the featured hands from our forums:

Status	Type	Hand	Hand judge
Basic	SNG	Flopped trips	lessthanthreee
Basic	MTT	56s deep 8.8	larseda
Bronze	FL	FL FR 0.1/0.2 88 from SB	frzl
Gold	NL BSS	Extracting from quads NL200SH BvB	Bierbaer
Gold	NL BSS	NL100SH AKo nice cd	Bierbaer

Preview for next month's content

Our Education team will continue to bring you more strategy content in order to help you improve your game. As part of the material to look forward to is a new video series called "HU PLOmahaha" and the fourth part of hasenbraten's "Crushing NL50".