Champion of Poker

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 [...]

These traits in my personality and this “don’t trust anybody” outlook was steering me towards paying people off who were betting and raising in heads up poker situations. I was doing this because I was refusing to believe what their betting was telling me in the hand like I would be refusing to believe them [...]

You will have no doubt read in some poker book that poker is a “people game” and that poker is a “people game played with cards”. Both these statements are of course very true, it is the people element to poker and online poker that makes the game incredibly complicated and fascinating. If the game [...]

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. [...]

If you are familiar with poker, then you are more than likely already familiar with the name Barry Shulman. He is a well known American poker player, but that isn’t all that he is known for. He also happens to be the CEO of the CardPlayer Magazine. Shulman is from Seattle, Washington and he had [...]

Jeff Lisandro is a name that is well known to anyone familiar with the world of poker. Lisandro is a popular Australian pro poker player, currently residing in Italy. An interesting fact about Lisandro and poker is that it is actually his mother that taught him how to play. She taught him to play poker [...]

Peter Eastgate is a very well known and highly respected poker player. He is originally from Denmark and he has cam a long way in poker, especially when you consider how young he is. Peter Eastgate was first introduced to the game of poker from his classmates when he attended school at the Sct. Canute’s [...]

Learning how to play poker is a relatively easy thing to access in modern culture. There are lots of books to teach you the different card games and then advanced strategies to help you become a winning poker player. Numerous television programs and streaming sites like Pokertube give you a massive database of knowledge with [...]

IMPULSIVE, AGGRESSIVE, IMPATIENT, BRAVE, RESTLESS, INTOLERANT
These six descriptive words are pertinent to my personality and character. Some time ago, I along with my partner did a psychological evaluation on myself. I have always had the ability to self analyse myself and I know full well my personality defects and am aware of my weaknesses….guess that [...]

Following on from part one of this series then, it is precisely why I do not always use poker software to download hand histories or software that assesses the history of other players. I am basically not interested in what a poker player has done two weeks ago in some online poker game, I want [...]