the Donkey of Poker

The difference between making money consistently and breaking even/losing players is taking advantage of Value Betting situations mostly commonly found on the river.  Why are we not Value Betting?  Is it because your afraid of the dreaded re-raise or you feel the pot is big enough that a check down with your marginal potential winning hand is risky as it is?  Lets explore what a value bet is and how we can take advantage of making money on the poker table.
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Poker is a unique game in the sense that players can often put money into a pot as they consider their hand to be good only to bail out of the hand before the turn or river.   This is NOT a play money lesson but a lesson of finding free money/chips at the cash tables.
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Grabbing some chips to coast or boost into the money or final table.  The bubble is the finishing place just before the money in a poker tournament.  It can also be described as a finishing place where there is a difference in a payouts.  Often times people will say they final table bubbled, they finished 1 off the final table (where the larger payouts are awarded).

How can you put yourself in a position to gather up chips during this time of a tournament?
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How the prize pool is distributed is different from site to site with 2 main differences in the percentage awarded. For the past 30 years the payouts have been about the same style known as the regular payout and some people prefer a flat payout structure.

What is the difference?  Which do you prefer?
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We have all been in the situation where we are either calling off our stack or making the push all-in.  This entry is about the math and winning percentages of heads up.

Think of your favorite pocket pair and lets see how well it really does in the long term.  You might be surprised to see some of the numbers that follow.
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