In general in Hold’em online, I prefer to have a little more equity in the pot than that but I had made the decision to make this move before the flop even fell if my opponent repeated his previous betting pattern which in this case they did. My opponent folds and I rake in a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 23, 2010
Perhaps you are an anonymous online poker player and happy just to grind out your living playing your hands at home. For many players the anonymity of online poker games is one of the positive aspects of playing in front of your computer screen. Poker is very much a game of ego, so it is [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 21, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 13, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 28, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 25, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 21, 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...Sunday, February 21, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 7, 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 [...]
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