Texas Hold ‘em: Stealing the Blinds

When playing no limit Texas Hold ’em, one of the sure-fire ways of surviving in the game is to steal the blinds.  Many players use this strategy to stay alive in any poker game whether it’s no limit or not.  Stealing the blinds can keep you in the game longer than you had originally anticipated [...]

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David Benyamine: France’s Best Poker Player

Nicknamed ‘Magicpitch’, David Benyamine is France’s best Poker player ever. Born in France in 1972, he has proved to be one of the top European Poker players with a single-year career earnings of over euros 6,00,000. But David started off with tennis as a youngster before being forced to quit the game because of a [...]

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Large Stack Poker Playing

While having a big stack at the poker table is definitely a good thing and gives you a huge advantage over your opponents, it’s possible for it to go to your head because you don’t know how to play with a large chip stack and you could find yourself very quickly with a short stack [...]

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Small Stack Poker Playing

Have you heard of small stack playing or small stack poker players?  If so, they mean exactly what they imply – playing with a short stack of poker chips or a poker player with a small stack of chips.  Obviously, if you are playing with a small stack of poker chips, you are at more [...]

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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 [...]

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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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