LiveHands Blog
Strategy guides, hand tracking tips, and insights for serious live poker players.
The Live Tournament Player's Guide: Everything You Need Before, During, and After the Event
A comprehensive guide covering tournament selection, bankroll management, logistics, and building routines that keep you performing at your best through long tournament days.
How to Improve at Live Poker Tournaments: A Data-Driven Approach
A comprehensive framework for improving at live poker tournaments through hand tracking, structured study, and data-driven leak identification.
Best Poker Books for Live Tournament Players
Seven poker books that sharpen your live tournament game — from satellite strategy and short stack play to bluffing, mental game, and theory.
The 7 Most Common Leaks in Live Tournament Poker
Spot the 7 most common leaks in live tournament poker and learn how hand data reveals each one. Fix your biggest weaknesses faster.
Hand of the Day: How to Learn from Notable Tournament Hands
Learn how to break down tournament poker hands for maximum study value. A step-by-step hand analysis example covering preflop decisions, stack depth, and bet sizing.
Bankroll Management for Live Tournament Players
How many buy-ins do you need for live tournaments? Practical bankroll rules, variance reality, festival budgeting, staking, and when to move up or down.
Money Movement for Live Poker: BravoLive, LuxonPay, and How to Fund Your Buy-Ins
Poker tournament buy-in payment options explained. BravoLive, LuxonPay, cage procedures, wire transfers, and security tips for funding your live events.
How to Read Tournament Structures Like a Pro
Learn to evaluate poker tournament structures before you register. Analyze starting stacks, blind levels, escalation pace, and plan your strategy by stage.
What Are You Really Buying Into?
Joe McKeehen argues rising rake is quietly breaking the economics of small buy-in tournaments. The math backs him up — and points to a structural fix that benefits the players it affects most.
Tournament Poker Preparation: How to Use Hand Data from Past Events to Play Better
Learn how to prepare for poker tournaments using hand data from past events. Review by stage, position, and opponent to find your edge.
WSOP 2026 Complete Player's Guide: Schedule, Travel, Structures, and Tips
Everything you need for the 2026 World Series of Poker — 109 bracelet events, schedule highlights, Main Event structure breakdown, Las Vegas travel and lodging, dining options, and practical tips from experienced attendees.
WSOP Main Event Structure Analysis: What the Blind Levels Tell You
A detailed breakdown of the WSOP Main Event blind structure — starting stacks, level duration, escalation pace, and what each phase means for your tournament strategy.
Shaun Deeb Thinks the New POY Format Is Broken. He Has a Point — and a Problem.
The WSOP overhauled its Player of the Year scoring for 2026. Shaun Deeb says it overweights big fields. The math says his real complaint is that it stopped underweighting them.