If you’re reading this article, 99 times out of 100 you’ve played Texas hold’em. It’s the game most poker players started with and one that spread like a brush fire thanks to the blossoming success of televised poker in the early half of the 2000s. Who doesn’t remember Chris Moneymaker famously pulling off one of poker’s greatest bluffs on Sam Farha in the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event?
While it’s no secret that hold’em is poker’s most popular game, it also shouldn’t be a secret that it’s becoming increasing harder to win in this variant.