Dan O'Callaghan was originally introduced to poker during his time as an English student in Newcastle and has been playing professionally for a number of years. Best known as danshreddies online, he's had success on both the live and virtual felts, enjoying the highs of tournament success and the frustration of a WSOP Main Event bubble. He has racked up over $120K in live earnings and over $750K online from a combination of MTTS, cash games and 3 handed Hyper turbos.
Dan describes himself as 'a bit of a weirdo', bringing this quirky je ne sais quoi to his work. He's a fierce optimist too, and his light-hearted style of writing has proved popular within the poker community. He's also freakishly tall!
Follow him for coaching and giveaways at YouTube.com/danshreddies and @Danshreddies On Instagram and Twitter
Good starting hands combine with the community cards to make the best hands, on average. The flop is a major determining factor in who wins. Discover why.
Collusion describes the act of working together with other players at the table in order to gain an unfair advantage. Poker is a solo game, any collaboration with other players is against the rules and can result in a permanent ban from the game in question. There are various different forms of collusion, such as soft playing, chip dumping, and sharing hole card (or other) information.
A check means that the action passes to the player on our left without us making any wager. Checking is only possible when no-one has made a bet on the current street. Say, for instance, a bet has been made before us on the current street, our options are to call, raise or fold. In this scenario, checking is not an option, because we must always at least match the bet on the current street.
In poker, the term blocker refers to a card in our hand that makes certain hands for our opponent less likely. For example, if we hold AK preflop in Hold’em, it makes it less likely that our opponent holds AA. Ordinarily there are 6 different ways to make AA, but since we hold one of the Aces (i.e. we have a blocker), there are now only three ways for our opponent to make AA. We can express this by saying that we “block” our opponent’s AA combos. The technical term for blocking is card removal effect.
A backraise is a raise made after already making a call earlier on the same betting round. It’s considered a tricky or deceptive line, since we decided not to raise when first given the opportunity. We decided to just call and only re-raise after someone behind us to decides to raise. The most common example in No Limit Hold’em is where a player calls against an open raise preflop but then decides to 4bet when facing a squeeze.
In poker, the phrase angle shooting describes a way of gaining an unfair advantage at the tables. The act of deliberately trying find and use angles is referred to as angle shooting. Not all forms of angle shooting are directly against the rules of poker, but almost all of them are unfair and run the risk of getting you kicked out of the game. Once common example of angle shoot poker is to deliberately act out of turn at the table in an attempt to influence the action.
Dan O'Callaghan was originally introduced to poker during his time as an English student in Newcastle and has been playing professionally for a number of years. Best known as danshreddies online, he's had success on both the live and virtual felts, enjoying the highs of tournament success and the frustration of a WSOP Main Event bubble. He has racked up over $120K in live earnings and over $750K online from a combination of MTTS, cash games and 3 handed Hyper turbos.
Dan describes himself as 'a bit of a weirdo', bringing this quirky je ne sais quoi to his work. He's a fierce optimist too, and his light-hearted style of writing has proved popular within the poker community. He's also freakishly tall!
Follow him for coaching and giveaways at YouTube.com/danshreddies and @Danshreddies On Instagram and Twitter
