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 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) | |
| 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".
