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The Tricks I Use to Stay Focused

Running a poker website helps me in a number of ways really focus on my online poker skills thanks to a number of cool things my site does for me. It also aids my bankroll in a roundabout way. It is my own particular brand of poker madness and it allows me a different experience [...]

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Part 1 – How to Defeat your Opponents by Observing Them

Poker players win pots by forcing their opponents to fold or winning when both players turn over their hole cards and reveal the strength of their hands. Part of learning to play poker better is to learn to read your opponents and calculate what their hand strength is compared to your own. In this two [...]

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Part 2 – How to Defeat your Opponents by Observing Them

In Part 1 we discussed whether your Poker opponents use a certain style in your games of No Limit Texas Hold’em. Your opponents always offer clues on how to beat them, no style is absolutely unbeatable. This is what makes playing poker so exciting, even the amateur player can defeat the professional player despite a [...]

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A Profile of Jennifer Harman

Jennifer Harman is a professional poker player and a member of Team Full Tilt. She is the only woman to have consistently played in the big game in Bobby’s Room where she has played for many years against players of the calibre of Doyle Brunson, the late Chip Reese and her good friend Daniel Negreanu. [...]

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Is Bwin.com a Safe Poker Room? I Think So

With new online poker controversy circulating throughout the online poker news feeds and poker forum discussions many poker players are wondering who are the most safe poker rooms to play on. This article is designed to pass on my own experience of a poker room that I trust and who millions of other sports bettors [...]

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New Security Risk at Cereus Network Reported

There has been another report of a vulnerability in the cereus network that further blackens the online poker reputation of two of the larger poker sites on the Internet. The poker tracking database website Poker Table Ratings outlined a new security risk that affects the Cereus network, which powers previous online poker bad-boys Absolute Poker [...]

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How Good Am I at Poker?

A few of the kind emails I get from people commenting on my work mention that I have a good grasp of Texas Hold’em poker and the concepts one should be aware of when playing cash games or tournaments. All that I can say is that learning how to play poker is something I continue [...]

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Fake Tells and Real Tells Explained

There is a large difference between a misleading tell deliberately implemented by an opponent and involuntary tells that the player may unwittingly give you at the same time. This article is designed to equip you with the basics in being able to spot and classify information your opponent gives you in a live poker setting [...]

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My Poker Year to Date

You see me cover in writing a lot about the online poker exploits of others and my opinions on them so here is my candid review of how my year has gone so far in terms of poker. It has been full of ups and downs, mostly of my own making but more of that [...]

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Betting with Stack Size in Mind

I read a poker article with Howard Lederer where he said that he realised he fully understood the game of No Limit Texas Hold’em poker when the bet sizing was semi-automatic and the only consideration he needed to make was whether or not to bet. Deciding how much to bet or how much you need [...]

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