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 [...]
Read MoreThe 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 MoreSome of the Most Famous Poker Hands
While many people may be familiar with the term “aces and eights” or “dead man’s hand,” how many actually know the history behind this? And what about other famous poker hands that have cropped up over time? There are two particularly famous poker hands you’ll regularly come across, both the infamous “Dead Man’s Hand” and [...]
Read MoreThe Long Slow Poker Grind part one
I have made a lot of mistakes during my life and a lot of mistakes during my poker career. I don’t just mean during the actual hands themselves because with poker being a game of incomplete information then mistakes during the play of the hands are inevitable. I am talking about much more serious errors [...]
Read MoreFundamentals of Poker: Starting Hands
Your starting hand in a game of poker is one of, if not the most, fundamental aspect that you need to consider before approaching a poker game. Being able to understand, analyze, and then act upon the cards you are initially dealt is the foundation of all later plays to be done in a round, [...]
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 MoreCan you handle the variance part two
Following on from part one then…….you may say fine, that the guy should not have tilted and you would be correct! You may also say that he should not have switched to playing no limit Texas Hold em poker and you would also have been correct! You might have figured that playing heads up was [...]
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 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 [...]
Read More
Recent Comments