Isildur1 is back and players like Brian Hastings, Durrrr, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey are battling head to head for millions of dollars. Just another week in the High Stakes Poker tables online. Most of us can never aspire to play against these amazing players for massive pots, but we can allow ourselves the pleasure [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2010
I have a naturally cautious outlook towards money and I hate putting it at risk. I think that this stems from my earlier life when I was seriously struggling financially. It is something that I have never been able to properly shrug off. It has gradually worn down over the years as I have become [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2010
It is also very important that you adhere to this piece of advice when looked at from the other side as well. Be aware that each and every one of us has an inbuilt calling poker reflex, an inner monster just waiting to get out and lose us our money. It is precisely why a [...]
Continue reading...21. February 2010
Reflex calling is precisely what the name entails, calling on reflex. In previous articles I have discussed the sheer speed of online poker play and what this can mean to you personally. But I mentioned how certain players bet on reflex but even more of them call on reflex.
This makes bluffing in certain situations quite [...]
16. February 2010
Phil Hellmuth is one of the most recognisable players in the world and ever since winning the World Series of Poker Main Event in 1989, at the time its youngest ever winner, he has been at the forefront of poker. Ever present at the World Series of Poker since 1989, Phil has a total of [...]
Continue reading...7. February 2010
Following on from part one then with this example, if his handicapping system showed that a horse in a certain race was an 11-1 chance (I have selected this price because it represents a gut-shot draw), he would not bet if he could only obtain 12-1 or 13-1 with a bookmaker or on the betting [...]
Continue reading...7. February 2010
Any professional poker player will tell you how difficult it is to estimate your implied odds when deciding whether to continue in a hand or not. This process is made all the more tricky by playing on the internet where the speed of online poker is substantially quicker than live play. I have observed countless [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...27. January 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2010
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 [...]
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19. March 2010
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