Tag Archive | "betting"

Playing for sizeable amounts of money

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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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 [...]

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Looking at your overlay part two

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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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 [...]

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Looking at your overlay part one

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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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 [...]

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The Essence of Table Speed part three

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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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 [...]

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The Essence of Table Speed part two

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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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 [...]

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Playing an actual poker session part four

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Hand 30, UTG, 8-3, I fold, Stack size £600 Hand 31: Big Blind, Q-5, three players limp as does small blind, I check. Flop K-Q-9 rainbow and it gets checked around. Turn card is another Q. SB checks and I fire £20 and all fold. Stack size £620 Hand 32: Small Blind, 8h-5h, all fold [...]

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A Hand in Action from $20-$40 limit play

Monday, November 30, 2009

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This hand was taken from my archive of hands that I have at limit hold’em. Although it wasn’t played by me personally but by someone who I was helping at the time! It was folded around to our hero who was on the button with the A-J and he raised. He was using Poker Office [...]

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Just how do you handle a maniac in poker

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Maniacs or to give them another name…..loose aggressive players are perhaps the most difficult players to combat in poker games. Well actually any poker style can be profitable if your opponents cannot exploit it properly. A calling station isn’t a good poker player but if you continually try to bluff them then your style is [...]

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The Way You Reveal Your Cards

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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Hi there! Assume that the river card was already revealed and no betting to expect. Then when revealing of the pocket cards came, player A flipped just one card over, he had a pair of Q’s. Player B followed and flipped his two cards over, he had a straight then and so started to collect [...]

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Untimely Showing of a Hand

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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Hi, I played no limit holdem with some business partners. Well, one hand came down to two players, player A and player B. Before the river, player A was hoping back then for a flush with clubs in the pocket and two on the table. Player B was already committed to pocket with QQ. River [...]

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