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Multi-Table or Move Up?

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Bankroll Building, Poker Strategy | 12 Comments

Submitted by Jerry, this article belongs to the Poker Bankroll Building series. One huge advantage online poker has over live poker, aside from the valuable poker bonuses, is that online poker rooms allow you to play on more than one table at once, also known as multi-tabling.  Multi-tabling, for all intents and purposes, is why so many poker players are able to make a living playing online.   Players typically begin multi-tabling after they have been beating their usual game for a while Read more [...]

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Are You Truly Putting Your Opponent on a Hand?

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy | 3 Comments

Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series. We’ve all watched the great Daniel Negreanu call out an opponent’s hand.  Let’s go back to the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event.  Daniel starts the hand with a 7-4 spades in position.  (A typical starting hand for him)  His opponent, Matt Traudt holds a K-9 clubs.  The flop comes 8 hearts-7 diamonds- 6 diamonds.  Both players check the flop.  The turn is the 10 spades.  That gives Traudt the straight.  Read more [...]

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Don’t Tell Me Your Bad Beat

Monday, March 30th, 2009 | Poker and Life, Poker Articles, Poker Strategy | 3 Comments

Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series. “…so I got my full house on the turn and the guy gets an 8 of diamonds on the river for the straight flush and beats me.”   How many bad beat stories have you heard?  Hang around a poker room for a night and you’ll hear plenty.  They will be offered to you.  You don’t have to ask to hear them.   As poker players, we remember those bad beats vividly.  We remember the suit and rank of every street, Read more [...]

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Poker is not a card game with people, it’s a people game with cards

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 10 Comments

Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series. Poker is a game of information.  To borrow a phrase from 1983 World Series of  Poker Main Event champ, Tom McEvoy, “…Poker is not a card game with people, it is a people game with cards.”  So how do we gather information about our opponents?  The first thing to learn is to not over think it.  Let’s look at information that is a little less intricate than observing how your opponent breathes after he makes Read more [...]

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Basic poker tournament strategy

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 4 Comments

Submitted by Cody Kirshner this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series Have you been playing tournaments that you wish you could do better in, or you are doing well and then all of a sudden have a “blow up”?  We all feel that way from time to time, and even the best of us will make a misread and loose all of our chips, but that is the nature of tournament poker.  Every decision that you make in tournament poker could be the hand that can cost you the tournament.  So I decided to Read more [...]

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The art of poker deception

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy | 2 Comments

Submitted by Rakewell, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series. I recently read this post on Rakewell’s PokerGrump blog where he continues along the track of learning poker from things that don't necessarily have anything to do with poker. A friend had free tickets for any Regal Cinema feature, so we hit the one at Fiesta Henderson to see "Slumdog Millionaire" today, curious as to why such an apparently unlikely movie racked up 10 Oscar nominations. Well, the reason becomes obvious Read more [...]

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Step SNG

Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 7 Comments

This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series. I recently stumbled upon the step SNG concept through an article I read on a Danish news website. Here a Danish SNG expert, Allan 'Sifosis' Bække, wrote some good tips on winning plays to beat the SNG steps. After investigating the step SNG system in more detail I decided to write a small review about it and include some of Allan 'Sifosis' Bække's tips on how to beat the SNG steps.  After reading about the step SNG concept I came to realize Read more [...]

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Why the cards matter least – Poker Strategy Part 5

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 2 Comments

This article belongs to the Poker Tournament series In this article I will discuss the stage of the tournament. If you have not read the previous articles in this series, please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4, at your convenience. Now you might be wondering why I consider the stage at which the tournament is at to be more important than the cards you may be holding. The reason for this is because your opponents, and possibly yourself, will be playing differently depending on which Read more [...]

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Have A Plan Before You Enter A Poker Tournament

Monday, January 19th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament | 3 Comments

Submitted by Mitchell this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series. Mitchell Cogert is the author of “Tournament Poker: 101 Winning Moves.” It is the only reference book to reveal the plays the Pros use to win a poker tournament. These plays are based on reviewing 20 years worth of tournament poker strategies and by actual play against Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, David Pham and other top pros. The book is available on amazon and rated 5 out of 5 stars by customers. Find out more Read more [...]

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Learning poker from things that don’t necessesarily have anything to do with poker

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | Poker Articles, Poker Strategy | 3 Comments

Submitted by Rakewell, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series. I recently read this post on Rakewell's PokerGrump blog and although it is very long I think it touches on some important issues regarding poker. If you are patient and read it through you might come to realize some things about poker you haven't given any thought before. Being as deeply immersed in poker culture as I am, perhaps it's impossible not to see the game everywhere. I have frequently noticed potential poker Read more [...]

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