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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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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Keeping Records and Statistics

I’m curious if you know the easy and effective way to keep records of any play. By the way, what statistics should I keep or consider recording? Thank you. Robert Robert, How you track your stats is determined by what you are most comfortable with. If you play a lot live, you are pretty much [...]

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