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Cash game guides
Short, plain guides to the parts of cash game poker that decide your results: the stake you pick, the money you keep for it, the game you play and when you stop.
Stakes and buy-ins
What $0.10/$0.20 means, how much you sit down with, and what the ante adds.
A bankroll for cash games
How many buy-ins to keep, when to move up and when to move down.
PLO, PLO5 and PLO6
Omaha with four, five and six cards: the rules and what changes with each extra card.
Bomb pots
Every player puts money in before the flop. What that does to the hands worth playing.
Picking a table
Average pot, hands an hour and empty seats: what the lobby tells you before you sit.
Rake and rakeback
What the room takes from each pot and how much of it comes back to you.
Sessions, breaks and tilt
How long to play, when to stop, and what to do after a bad beat.