Jordan Mercer

Jordan learned the game in local card rooms before moving online, and has spent more than a decade grinding low- and mid-stakes cash. They write our cash-game, position, postflop, and bluffing coverage — always starting from the question every winning player asks: what's the most profitable line, and why? Off the felt, Jordan is the one at the table who can tell you the exact pot odds without reaching for a calculator.

These days most of Jordan's volume is online, multi-tabling low- and mid-stakes, but the live instincts never left — they still read a room out of habit, clocking who's playing scared and who came to gamble. When they're not writing, they're usually going back through their own losing sessions, on the theory that the hands you'd rather forget are the ones with the most left to teach.

• Cash games
• Position
• Postflop play
• Bluffing