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Become a Pleasure to Play Poker With
Think of Tony G, Luke Schwartz or Phil Hellmuth and what does your mind immediately think about? Firstly, they are all excellent and highly profitable poker players. Secondly, their behaviour at the table is less than exemplary. More specific to live poker play then online, there are certain things you should never do at the [...]
Continue reading...What Do You Want From Poker?
3. February 2010
You may read poker articles and think that they are too detailed and too focused on the career poker professional. You may not want to focus too deeply on the game but you are keen to become a better player. There are many different types of poker player; you will know whether you are a [...]
Continue reading...The Importance of ABC Poker Strategy
26. January 2010
Raise when you have the best hand, fold when you are beaten. If you could implement this one sentence as your poker strategy when you play poker online from now on you be one of the biggest winners in online poker and you would become very rich very quickly. This is, in effect, perfect poker. [...]
Continue reading...How to Avoid Losing Because of Tilting
12. January 2010
Emotions can run high when you play online poker. Losses hurt because no-one likes to lose money and the loss is sometimes difficult to shake off for a certain length of time. Whilst it is easy to say “just carry on playing”, if you simply forgot about the last hand this would make you almost [...]
Continue reading...The Best Poker System Ever Invented
4. January 2010
Listening to a well-known poker podcast that is delivered weekly by a strategy website last week I listened to what I thought was a strange comment from “Texas Dolly” Doyle Brunson. Doyle said that some people were just not cut out for playing poker but knew all of the theory and made excellent poker coaches. [...]
Continue reading...The Art of Changing Gears in Poker
19. December 2009
Poker players use various tactics to create their deception. Being deceptive in your poker play is successful when poker players at your table assume you are playing one poker strategy style but you are disguising a different style. Deception can be conducted by doing the same thing in various spots, like always raising three times [...]
Continue reading...Lose The Ego and Get Rich
23. October 2009
Poker is a game of egos. You only need look at the WSOP coverage and you see all kinds of chip shuffling, fancy shades, funky clothes and cocky behaviour designed to show how good a player is. Although I disagree with ladies only poker events because they do not have a skill deficiency compared to [...]
Continue reading...Did They Think I Was Cheating?
20. September 2009
I have seen something during live poker tournaments lately that I have not seen in many recent years. At least twice an hour, the dealer at my table will go through and count all of the cards in the deck after the river has been dealt. Also, other than a drink holder and [...]
Continue reading...Was I Cheated?
18. September 2009
Recently, I was playing Omaha Poker and a strange hand came up. I had the Ah-Qd-10d-9c and the board ran out Kh-Qh-Jh-10h-3c. We were playing “pot-limit” and it took a bit longer to put my chips in, but my opponent kept raising until I was all-in. He showed, 9h-8h-7c-6c and declared Straight [...]
Continue reading...Should I Have Said Something?
17. September 2009
I play in a weekly home game that is run in tournament style. We usually hire someone to come in and deal for us as to keep the game going smoothly. Well, this past week, a lady player came into the game that clearly did not know how to play the game. [...]
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4. February 2010
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