Welcome to Flop Turn River!
It’s our mission to turn you into a winning poker player. Over the years, we’ve been adding timeless strategy articles to help you learn poker. We’ve also done the research across hundreds of online sites to recommend only the best places to play poker. And finally, we offer a free and friendly forum where you can discuss poker with thousands of other poker players.
Learn Poker
If you’re new to the game of poker, this is where you should start. Our poker strategy articles will give you enough knowledge to build a solid foundation. Poker is easy to learn, but difficult to master, and with our tools, your studies will make a significant positive change to your game, and of course, your bankroll.
Play Poker
There are hundreds of online poker websites. It can all seem very overwhelming. Where can you find the best bonuses? Which sites have the most players? Which rooms offer a mobile app? We’ve gone through them all and offer only the best of the best. Our 20+ years of experience will save you a lot of time.
Discuss Poker
The FTR poker forum opened for registration in 2003. Since then, we’ve had over 130,000 members sign up to discuss poker with over 1.2 million posts. Don’t worry if you’re completely new, we pride ourselves on being kind to all players as we know that everyone was once a noob. Join today and take your game to the next level.
Featured Poker Strategy Articles
Our curated collection of the best strategy articles from top FTR members!
Latest Poker Strategy Articles
Learn from fellow FTR members!
Brick and Mortar/Live Poker Strategy
Developing a Feel for Equities in No-Limit Hold’em Part 3: Hitting the Flop
Playing Overcards in Limit Hold’em: Part 1
No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw Strategy (Part 1): The Basics
Poker Hands Order | Poker Hands for Omaha Hi/Lo
[FTR Quick Tip 006] 3-Betting, Part 3: Merging
Psychology of a Tilting Player
Pot Equity Edge (LHE)
soupie’s Win MTT Poker 12 – Poker Secrets and Tilt
Poker Starting Hands with Deep Stacks
Poker Hands
Playing the Small Blind in an MTT Part 2
Chardrian’s Guide to Live Small Stakes Limit Poker (Part 6)
The Mathless Approach to Poker
Applications of EV Calculations (Part 3): River Checking vs. Bluffing
An Introduction to Abstract Thought in Poker (Part 2)
6 Max Starting Hands
soupie’s Win MTT Poker 13 – Improving Your Game
Moving Up in Low Stakes from $.05/.10 to $.25/.50
Why You Suck At Limit Holdem
Live Poker Cash Game Strategies
Moving from $.25/.50 to $.50/1.00
Bust-Out Blues
Betting Poker Tells
How to Multi-Table SnGs for Beginners (4 Tabling $6.50 by givememyleg)
Spenda’s 5 Biggest Leaks of a Losing NL Player – Leak 2
How, Why and When to Double Barrel in No-Limit Hold’em
Thinking About Your Ranges When Continuation Betting
Applications and Limitations of the Alpha Value
10 PLO Hands From Salsa4ever
The UTG Live Straddle
soupie’s Win MTT Poker 10 – Developing Skills
ISF – Pocket Pairs
Transitioning from Online to Live Play
ISF – Strategic Bet Sizing
Double Shootout SnG Satellite Strategy (Micro Stakes $1 by kingnat)
Poker Strategy Sections
Take a deep dive into specific poker strategies.
Poker Charts & Poker Odds Articles
Understand poker math.
Pocket Pairs and Over Cards Chart
Texas Holdem Expected Value Hand Charts – 2 Players
EV Poker Chart from UTG + 1 – Limit Texas Hold’em
EV Poker Chart from UTG – Limit Texas Hold’em
Texas Holdem Expected Value Hand Charts – 3 Players
Texas Hold’em Flop Odds
Poker Editorials About Whatever
Just for fun!
Top 10 Superstitious Poker Players
Top 10 Greatest Completed Poker Challenges
The Dark Side of Poker
Top 10 Most Impressive Single Year WSOP Performances
Top 10 Ways for Poker Players to Stay Healthy
Sick Hands: A History of Famous Poker Player Illnesses Pt.2 The Funny
Dumbest Poker Conspiracy Theories
Top 10 Poker Nicknames
Poker, the Beautiful Woman
Top 10 Ways to Cheat at Poker
What is FTR?
Online since 2003!
Hi, I’m Tyler and welcome to FTR! If you’re new to FTR, this is what we’re all about in a nutshell – to help the average Joe become a winning, profitable Texas Holdem poker player and to provide an active, friendly, and intelligent online poker community.
Flop Turn River.com has been around since 2003, when I started to seriously learn and play online Texas Holdem. My real education began in 2003 (even though I had played poker and holdem casually for many years), studying poker books, reading whatever online materials I could find, and eventually, joining and playing at an online poker room. My online poker adventure would begin on an impulse late one Saturday evening, after seeing a random Paradise Poker commercial on TV. I opened an account, deposited some money, and began to play Texas Holdem online for the first time. It was absolute thrilling! At Paradise Poker, I started playing the $.50-$1.00 Limit Texas Holdem poker game.
As a brand new player to the online poker world, I was a pretty easy target. A “fish” you could say. A student of Sklansky’s books, my poker education started and developed in the low stakes Limit Texas Holdem ring game where I eventually developed into a break-even player …after dropping a bankroll of $700.
But then I began experimenting with other variations of Texas Hold’em. I moved from the low stakes Limit Texas Holdem ring game to Limit Texas Holdem tournaments at Paradise Poker. I played $10 Limit Sit-n-Go Tournaments (10 player tournaments), and started having a lot more fun playing Texas Holdem, but was still just a break-even poker player, even in this form of Texas Hold’em.
I then switched from Limit Sit-n-Go’s to the No Limit Sit-n-Go Tournaments, where I enjoyed greater success, graduating to a slightly winning poker player. I started to develop a No Limit Texas Holdem strategy that was working for me. I moved my game to UltimateBet (remember these assholes?!), to take advantage of the new user bonus, and here I finally migrated my poker game to the No-Limit Texas Holdem ring game variation. I practiced my no limit texas holdem strategies at UltimateBet’s low stakes $.10-$.25 tables, while earning some free bonus dollars.
While figuring out No Limit Texas Holdem was the game for me and developing that strategy, I also learned that earning free money through initial deposit bonuses offered by the poker rooms was an easy way to pad my beginner’s bankroll. I would take my game to Party Poker, followed by Empire Poker, then ACR Poker, and would eventually join every other major online poker room in existence, taking advantage of new player bonus dollars wherever possible.
I also put in a lot of hours earning the big bonus at Bovada, where I worked off the $600 welcome bonus grinding out low stakes no limit Texas Holdem. The poker bonuses helped me stay afloat during this early period of playing.
Anyway, I would find my greatest success, and profits, playing this form of Texas Hold’em – No Limit ring games. Needless to say, by the latter end of 2003, I was a consistently profitable online Texas Holdem poker player, more than recouping my initial losses, and I’ve been tacking on poker profits ever since. I’ve been a profitable online poker player since September of 2003, and had a stretch of 18 profitable months in a row. These days I’ll play any No Limit Holdem table with buy-in’s up to about $1,000, and when playing online I prefer to multi-table four tables at a time.
Becoming a winning poker player, in my opinion, was not that difficult. It took some time, it took the right variation of Holdem poker that I was most competent, and over a $700 bankroll in my case, but at the end of the learning experience, I developed a No Limit Texas Holdem strategy that would prove to give back so much more. Eric helped me publish the little poker knowledge I had to share with other players, and so begain our little online Texas Holdem strategy website. Solid and useful no limit holdem strategies and discussions were hard to come by back then, so we delivered our own, and if you’re a losing poker player, the strategies on this website will undoubtedly help you.
FTR has become so much more than my personal no limit Texas Holdem strategy site since then – FTR is now a strategy and discussion site for all forms of Texas Holdem. In fact, FTR is anything and everything about poker. Strategies, tips, advice, and tactics were the foundations of FTR, but you can find good reads on a wide range of other poker subjects – especially in the depths of our very active and exciting Poker Forum.
First off, if you are new to FlopTurnRiver.com, be sure to visit our Beginner Poker section to help get you acquainted with FTR, Texas Hold’em, and poker in general. Then browse around our articles, study are Poker Strategy essays, become a part of our friendly Poker Community. And then play some poker. Nothing beats experience when it comes to developing your poker game. Visit our Poker Room Reviews, utilize our great poker bonus codes. Drop by our Poker Forums and let us know your progress – we are always willing to talk shop and help players out. The members here range from beginner players brand new to poker all the way up to seasoned professionals, so no matter what level you’re at, you can feel right at home.
Online poker is a profitable pastime. And so much fun!
Our goal is to help expedite your holdem strategy development by offering our strategies and advice…for free. All it takes is the right learning materials, the right feedback, and accumulating experience by playing hands and hands of poker. Now go study, play some poker, and make some money. Thanks for visiting FTR, and we’ll see you at the tables!
– Tyler “Tatonka” D.