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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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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Where the Money Comes From in Poker part one

In this article I am going to delve into where the money comes from in poker and it is not always from where you think it is. There are very important reasons why you need to be alert to just who is sitting in the two seats to your immediate left and also the two [...]

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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 five

You simply cannot let your opponents know that each time that you raise before the flop that you either have Broadway cards or a premium pocket pair. This would just encourage players to call your raises with mediocre hands and wait for you to miss the flop.
So you have to inject some level of uncertainty [...]

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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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Supersystem examined part three

It personally took me countless readings of Doyle’s no limit section and a whole load of further studying to boot to finally comprehend what he was really saying. Up until then, I had merely thought that I understood and it was only when I went back and read my earlier notes that I realised just [...]

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Supersystem examined part two

But without a shadow of a doubt, the overwhelming weight of support for Supersystem has come because of what Doyle wrote about his favourite form of poker….No Limit Texas Hold em poker. In fact the term “The Cadillac of Poker” has also gone along way towards the book achieving cult status as this is now [...]

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Can you handle the variance part four

You will have read and heard many times that you should not play when you are tired or disturbed for any reason or if a particular poker table is quite tough with good players inhabiting it. Game conditions and your own mental and physical state can seriously impede your chances of winning money and you [...]

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Can you handle the variance part three

The potential problems arise when you hit this bad run straight away or very early on in your poker career. It is at this stage where you are still emotionally and psychologically at your most fragile because you have yet to achieve the results that will install confidence into you to continue through the bad [...]

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