Becoming more business like with your poker

In poker if you want to make money then it is always a good idea to become more business like with your approach and methodology. You basically have two ways to go in poker. You can be one of the top players and earn a lot of money but this is very difficult based on [...]

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The Perils of playing live poker part three

Dave looked puzzled, “What do you mean Carl?”. “Well lets say that I have aces in Texas Hold em poker and I communicate to you that I have them. You are first to speak and you have junk but you limp in to assist me later on in the hand. Because you have not raised, [...]

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The Perils of Playing Live Poker part two

Carrying on from part one……“Well, you have not played any other game online apart from Texas Hold’em and you are going to be playing dealers choice in these side games so cheating is not your biggest problem Dave, it is going to be lack of knowledge of certain forms of poker.” “But to answer your [...]

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The perils of playing live poker part one

“What do you mean, I need to watch myself”. A very direct question to what had been a very direct warning from me. A close friend of mine called Dave had been playing poker for about a year and he had only ever played online. He had asked me for advice on poker about a [...]

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Where The Money Comes From in Poker part three

While we are on the subject of switching sites this brings up something else that is very important, that of site selection or switching sites just to get a sign up bonus. Buying into a site primarily to get a sign up bonus is what LOSING poker players do. There are ALWAYS other far more [...]

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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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Bet Sizing part two

But what if the pot has already been raised and you have a raising hand yourself, well remember BIG POT BIG HAND, either fold or learn to raise properly. Let us say that you have KK so you have the best poker hand unless you happen to be unlucky enough to be up against aces. [...]

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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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Regularly Change Your Poker Style

When you first learn how to play poker you learn that you should always raise with good hands and fold bad hands. Things seem quite straight forward until you learn that opponents are watching your every move. Because opponents are watching what you do and how you play you notice they are beginning to adapt [...]

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Playing Cash Game Poker

Cash games are where the real money is made from playing poker. Whether you specialise in live poker or online poker there are cash game profits to be made for the talented poker player. Learning how to play at cash games takes a specific strategy that is totally different from the winning strategies employed by [...]

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