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Is Poker a Sport or just Entertainment?
This is one argument that can you always start at the bar and get good debates going. In fact you can start the debate at the bar, go away and have a drink and come back and they will still be going at it. This is because poker has many elements of what a sport [...]
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What to Listen to when Playing Poker
28. April 2010
When you play poker online it is advisable not to have your music blasting and your attention diverted from the action. In live poker, however, you will be forced sit in a certain place and having your iPod loaded up with some music or podcasts can be a welcome relief from irritating opponents using table [...]
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Exactly How to Multi-Table
21. April 2010
When you decide to play more than one poker table, you have a variety of choices. You can tile, cascade or play with more than one monitor in what is known as a dual-monitor set-up to increase the size of the poker tables. Multi-table Texas Holdem is not an easy game to master, but if [...]
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Dealing with Monster Flops
13. April 2010
This article is about extraction. Possibly because I was at the dentist this morning trying to get medication to rid myself of a nasty gum infection and avoiding a tooth extraction this article popped into my mind. The extraction I speak of is the much more pleasant experience of extracting chips from your opponents stack [...]
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Can You Make A Living Playing Tournaments?
6. April 2010
Playing poker professionally holds a lot of attraction. Plenty of free time, lots of opportunities to make money considering the skills you should have if you turn professional, and plenty of Texas Hold’em to help wile away the hours. What could be better? The realities of the tournament trail, however, are a little different. Even [...]
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Pokertracker Massively Improves Your Game
25. March 2010
To beat the Texas Hold’em Poker players you encounter online you need to constantly review your sessions and take the lessons from this review into your future games. A great program to use for this type of session review is pokertracker. I use Pokertracker and it does the job for me in terms of my [...]
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Does PLO Represent Real Danger to a Bankroll?
28. February 2010
Pot Limit Omaha is an aggressive game that has become very popular with the high stakes Poker players like Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Illari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. These players like action and action is what they get with PLO! More than any other form of online poker you must be somewhat reckless in your play to [...]
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What Makes You Better Than Your Opponent
25. February 2010
Millions of players play online poker everyday and large amounts of money swirls around the poker rooms making some players millions and others suffer losses, only to rebound later on. Some players lose all of the time and eventually leave the game. How would you rank these players and exactly what skills dictate whether one [...]
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Check Raising in No Limit Texas Hold 'em
11. February 2010
When you check in poker you put no chips into the pot. This is often perceived as a sign of weakness as you are indicating that, at the point of action, you are not willing to risk anymore money into the pot currently being contested. Often this will lead to your opponent betting into you [...]
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Become a Pleasure to Play Poker With
4. February 2010
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 [...]
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