Archive for August, 2008
This is the final post in a series of 3 posts covering the top 11 bad poker habits belonging to your PokerBRB team.
9. Unintentionally signing up to fixed limit or Omaha tournaments
This just really sucks; fortunately it happens less frequently to me now compared to when I first started playing poker. In the beginning it is easy to get confused in the poker lobby so you will probably also repeat my mistakes. Don’t worry after a few mistaken signups you will learn to pay more attention.
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Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Strategy
How bad can it get when playing online poker? If you ask Gus Hansen some days do not bring in bread and butter.
Gus was playing 15.5 hours straight at a Full Tilt Table, and stopped after losing a total of $796.000. The game played was Limit Omaha Hi/Lo with $2000/$4000 limits. Gus played a total of 1168 hands.
Patrick Antonius took a great deal of the winnings by going plus $476.000 over 674 hands.
Is the lesson that you should stop playing when you are on a losing steak? No, you should
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Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Pro
In the series of articles describing necessary skills required for good bankroll management and general online poker success the skill – willpower – will be the next skill to go into depth with. Willpower in the context of bankroll management can be defined as:
….inner strength to make decisions and take action regardless of inner discomfort, resistance or difficulty….
Willpower is the power of pushing towards any goal with decisiveness, firmness and determination. In my opinion
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Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Bankroll Management
PokerBRB is proud to announce the free 50$+ prize August Cash Game Competition - the rules are simple.
This is an exclusive offer for people who have signed up through the pokerBRB rakeback sites. You can also enter the PokerBRB Cash Game Competition for free by signing up to VC poker and receiving 10$ free of charge.
Make a deposit at one of the rakeback sites you have signed up to through the PokerBRB website
Increase your bankroll as much as possible during August
The player with
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Tags: Poker Freeroll
You might have noticed that the Poker BankRoll Blog now has a gallery in the left sidebar. The pictures are from my latest trip to Malta to visit the rest of the PokerBRB team and from a holiday in Thailand and Cambodia in 2005 which was sponsored entirely by my poker bankroll at the time.
Hope you enjoy the pictures....it took me ages to figure out how to get thumbnails displayed correctly using the NextGen gallery. If you are having problems with this issues drop me a line and I will be more
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Tags: Poker News