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Looking beyond the short term with your poker playing
There is always a tendency with many novice online poker players to look at events in a vacuum. This could mean that the bad beat that you just experienced is somehow exaggerated in your own mind. Usually it is the ability to absorb losses that will ultimately be your biggest asset as a poker player. [...]
Continue reading...Trying to develop a basic strategy for poker
23. August 2010
There are many ways to make money in poker but for every way to make money then there must be a hundred ways to lose it. In my study of games both poker related and non poker related then I have found many similarities between all types of games and game theory has long since [...]
Continue reading...Jamie Gold: The survivor Poker World Champion, 2006
4. August 2010
One of the senior champions of the World Series of Poker Main Event, Jamie Gold never fails to light the spark on the Poker tournament circuit. Born in 1969, Gold belongs to New Jersey, United States and is currently based in Malibu working as a television producer. His grandfather was a gin rummy champion and [...]
Continue reading...Poker History and the 2009 World Series of Poker
27. May 2010
In Las Vegas the preparations are ongoing for the 2010 World Series of Poker extravaganza. Poker dealers are being intensively trained and hundreds of poker tables shipped to the casinos in anticipation of large player pools for each tournament. Poker players from around the world are practising their poker games and planning which events they [...]
Continue reading...Selecting the right level at limit holdem part two
14. May 2010
Whatever method you use to calculate the amount of rake you are paying per hour, remember to deduct the rakeback payment. So if for instance you are paying $12 per hour in rake in a $2-$4 limit online Texas Holdem game and getting 30% rakeback. Then deduct 30% from $12 ($3.60) and this will represent [...]
Continue reading...Selecting the right level at limit holdem part one
13. May 2010
Actually the structure of this article and the style of it is deliberate. I receive an awful lot of praise from people regarding my poker magazine articles who say that they enjoy my chatty conversational style of writing. Well this is just as well because this is the style that I enjoy doing the most, [...]
Continue reading...Game selection in limit holdem part two
12. May 2010
I have said before that I site hop constantly so using a tracker is of considerably less use to me than what it would be to other players. My biggest use of a tracker in Texas Hold’em is to help me get information on players before I sit down to play with them and this [...]
Continue reading...Game selection in limit holdem part one
12. May 2010
Sometimes in a game like no limit Holdem poker, it can only take one player who is throwing a party for the game to be profitable. When you are sitting in a $1-$2 game of no limit hold’em and a live one buys in for $200 and plenty more in his account in which to [...]
Continue reading...Playing from the cut off in no limit holdem part three
3. May 2010
So with $325 in the pot in this hand of no limit Texas Holdem poker, the flop came 10d-6d-2c giving me a gutshot draw and nothing else. The big blind bet out $175 and I called the bet making a total of $675 in the pot. I like to float (call with the intention of [...]
Continue reading...Playing from the cut off in no limit holdem part two
2. May 2010
I have the advantage because they don’t know me or how I play and what my goals or objectives are in Texas Hold’em poker. But I started out at $25-$50 by having little hit and run sessions where I would go onto the table and buy in for about $2500. I knew that my opponents [...]
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25. August 2010
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