Poker Strategy
In this series of top 10 lists I have selected top moves from Mitchell Cogert's "Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves". I believe these moves have the largest probability of improving your chances of winning low to medium stakes online poker tournaments.
Top 10 lists in this series:
Top 10 preflop moves
Top 10 flop moves
Top 10 turn and river moves
Mitchell Cogert is the author of “Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves.” It is the only reference book to reveal the plays the Pros use
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In this series of top 10 lists I have selected top moves from Mitchell Cogert's "Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves". I believe these moves have the largest probability of improving your chances of winning low to medium stakes online poker tournaments.
Top 10 lists in this series:
Top 10 preflop moves
Top 10 flop moves
Top 10 turn and river moves
Mitchell Cogert is the author of “Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves.” It is the only reference book to reveal the plays the Pros use
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Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
As long as you respect this wisdom, you'll probably enjoy poker for the rest of your life once you started playing. Of course, facing a bad beat is always a tough moment, because you feel injustice is done to you. Nobody has to be ashamed of this feeling; this is just natural and common for every single person. It only gets problematic when you can't let it go after the moment has passed and you can't place this injustice in
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This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
If you are not familiar with the concept of poker player levels start by reading my article: Poker player levels revisited. Having read my article, I will assume you are now a level 3 poker player :-).
I will use the following situation as a starting point for my discussion:
You are playing an online poker tournament and you pick up 7 diamonds 8 hearts in middle position. A player in early position raises 3xBB and you call. The rest of the
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This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
My good poker buddy McTap wrote an excellent article some time ago about the second major leak he had discovered in his game. In this article he introduced us to the concept of poker player levels which I believe were first coined by Phil Gordon in his article : “Inside the mind”
I’m revisiting the concept of poker player levels because I will be talking about it on The All in Poker Show later today. Currently I do not feel confident
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This article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Lately I have given a lot of thought to the notion of formulating an optimal strategy for playing low stakes MTT online tournaments. I'm pretty sure I don't have it nailed down yet, but I want to share what I have come up with so far. Maybe you have some ideas of your own to add to mine? Before I start I would like to share one of the most important things I have come to realize lately when it comes to optimizing your chances of winning an online
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Submitted by John, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series
You can find a lot of different poker games online lately. Not only there's the difference between tournament poker and cash games, you can also choose between long handed and short handed games, single or multi-table tournaments,... . But there's another important factor which determines your game: the amount of chips you sit down with (in regard to the size of the blinds).
It's a known fact among the more experienced poker
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Submitted by Thomas, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Sophisticated card-playing robots – known as “poker bots” – have now been playing online for years and the trend is accelerating. The increasing activity on poker bots forums and the growing interest generated by the annual poker bot competition (organized by the University of Alberta) are prime indicators of this trend.
Of course, online poker rooms have been fighting bots since the beginning as it hurts their
revenues
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This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
Lately I have come to realize that playing Multi-table Poker Tournaments requires a special mental mindset that not all poker players possess. On one hand you never stand to lose more than the tournament buyin, but the price you pay for this privilege is that most of the tournaments you enter will be a complete waste of time - when evaluated by a profit per hour criteria - unless you make it to the final table.
The path to the final table
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Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
How many times have you folded pocket Aces after the flop? Sounds absurd I know, but what if the flop is K K J? Or if the flop came 10 J Q? Depending on the post flop betting you may be a big underdog. So can you lay them down?
Dennis Phillips finished third in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Dennis is from my hometown of St. Louis. He won a $200 double shootout satellite at Harrah’s Casino
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