A “fish” in live poker or online poker at sites like www.pokerstars.co.uk is a polite term for a weak player, a losing player or a beginner. In poker games the world over, weak players are known by various names and many of them are not pleasant. Be it “rabbit, fish, mug, live one, sucker, chip [...]
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Online Poker Universities – Advantages versus Disadvantages
Even though you may love a good game with your family or friends and think you are proficient enough to win playing for money in real, it will pose a real challenge to get on with gambling online for real money. While playing with family and friends can always be fun, it can be quite [...]
Read MoreOnline Poker Tips
Playing poker online can be an extremely addicting habit. It can be addicting for many reasons: (1) your habit can be concealed from loved ones, (2) you don’t have to travel to a casino and (3) you can do it from the comfort of your home. These things are all convenient but it is a [...]
Read MorePart 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 [...]
Read MorePart 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 [...]
Read MoreTypical Mistakes of Rookies in Poker
Poker is a popular game and is of many forms. No matter what the form of poker is that you are playing, there are mistakes to be made. If it’s your first time playing poker, you are going to make more mistakes than you could ever imagine. However, what’s helpful, is if you know some [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part three
Carrying on from part two and firstly you don’t know who the eighteen year old kid is and secondly you don’t know how he earns his money and how long he has been playing the game so you don’t really know if he is a winner at all but yet you are trying to emulate [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part two
Carrying on from part one then and you end the session only to see it continue tomorrow and then…..snap! Something happens in your mind and you are no longer playing the same. I don’t mean that you are tilting, but those strategies that you had picked up from having read those books no longer seem [...]
Read MoreAre you suited to limit holdem part one
What, you think that limit Texas Hold’em is easy do you? Just because you only have a tiny percentage of your buy in at risk at any one time you think that this is a game for boys and not men! If no limit hold’em is the “Cadillac of Poker” then is limit hold’em a [...]
Read MoreA 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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