Obviously I must drag myself away from the bwin.com poker tables for long enough to get an update to my readers or else be drowned by the deluge of emails asking for updates. Ok, so perhaps that is in my mind but if I am going to do a poker challenge I must keep it [...]
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The Sponsorship of Female Poker Players
If you are an attractive and photogenic female poker player you might be able to get sponsored by a large poker room who will use your attention-grabbing photos to generate new players for their site. There are many female professionals who make a good living this way. If you have a bit of brains and [...]
Read MorePlaying out of Position in Holdem
OOP is the term used for ‘Out of Position’. Poker strategy says that you should play most of your hands in late position because you get to see what action players still in the hand make against you before making your decision how to proceed in the hand. In late position you have more information [...]
Read MoreSatellites Continue to be a Success
Chris Moneymaker turned $40 into $2.5 million in 2003 and kick started the poker boom. This trend of big wins coming from satellite winners continued right into 2010 with recent Aussie Millions champion Tyron Krost turning a $600 AUD satellite into the $10,000 AUD buy-in going on to win a first prize of $2 million [...]
Read MoreThe Maven System About To Launch
Over the past nine months I have watched the hype cleverly increased over time regarding David Chicotsky and Ari Engel and their training facility. They have set up a state of the art poker training centre in Las Vegas designed to train people in their specific poker tournament strategy and despite many negative comments about [...]
Read MoreSNG Bubble Play Tips
Playing the bubble in a single table tournament or SNG is when there are four players remaining with only three players cashing out a prize. Because SNG play is quite tight you will usually have blinds that are high relative to your stack size. Some players wrongly assume there is no skill involved at this [...]
Read MorePoker Blog Scene Report
We trawl through the various well-known poker blogs on the Internet from time to time and give you a report on the latest news and views currently being discussed online by many of the professional poker players who blog regularly. Whilst you should probably not be reading poker blogs whilst playing poker online I personally [...]
Read MoreHow Not to Play Queens Pre-Flop
Online poker constantly reminds me that I am not as good as I think I am. It puts me in situations that test my ability to identify concepts that I often write about, sometimes I respond correctly and other times I make errors that I should not be making. Frustrating though it is I turn [...]
Read MoreWhy Durrrr is so Interesting
Tom Dwan is the poster boy of high stakes cash games. He plays with an aggressive style so bold that if he had never played poker before and described his intended style for the high stakes games to you your response would probably be that this would not work for him. Yet he is arguably [...]
Read MoreThe Effect of Poker Rake
When you play Roulette either online or at a live casino you will notice that there is a zero number on the table. USA players will note there is a zero and double zero on the roulette wheel as this increases the casinos edge. This is called the house edge because the payouts are not [...]
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