My Poker Challenge Update

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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Adjusting to your new poker environment

An often little understood factor in playing poker online or anywhere for that matter is that unless you have done it before then it can feel very strange. Even if you are in fact an experienced online or live card room player then if you are playing in a different game or playing against different [...]

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Satellites 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 [...]

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Supersystem examined part six

Carrying on from part five then and we can see that it highlights the need to balance your poker game so that you are not predictable to your opponents and it also highlights the difference in what constitutes a good hand in no limit poker from a dangerous hand. An A-Q in limit play is [...]

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Supersystem examined part four

It must be pointed out that Brunson readily admits in that book that his style of play would struggle to be successful in poker games where there was not an awful lot of money on the table. An overall lack of money on the table would mean that his aggressive style of pushing players out [...]

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How 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 [...]

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Why 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 [...]

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Studying Poker

There is something that I would like to say to you about poker and in particular studying poker. Poker is not just about playing some card game; if money was not involved and large amounts of money at that then many more people could be successful in poker and it would be all too easy [...]

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The Perils of Playing Live Poker part two

Whenever a player is playing poker online then has already been mentioned, the software does basically everything for you except make your decisions. But there are other areas that need to be attended to in live poker games that many online players simply take for granted.
For instance, because you can see all of the cards [...]

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The Perils of Playing Live Poker part one

I have seen it literally dozens of times and heard it more times than I can care to remember. That is an online poker player speaking about how they would really like to try their hand inside a real card room and playing live poker games. The advent of online poker has brought untold numbers [...]

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