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The Importance of ABC Poker Strategy
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 internet poker 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. [...]
Continue reading...Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Poker
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Essence of Table Speed part three
Saturday, January 16, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Playing an actual poker session part five
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Hand 37: Big Blind, A-Q, Early player raises to £15 and it is folded to me. AQ is a trouble hand in NL Texas Hold’em poker and I must be careful but I call anyway. Flop comes 10-K-7 giving me a gutshot draw. I bet £20 and I am relieved to see them fold. Stack [...]
Continue reading...Playing an actual poker session part two
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Hand 8: Small Blind, Kh-7h, UTG player raises to £15 and everyone folds including me. Stack size £448 Hand 9: Button, 3c-2c Folded to me and I raise to £20, both blinds fold. Stack size £455 Hand 10: Cut-off, 8c-3c, folded around to me and I also fold. Stack size £455 Hand 11: 8s-3s, UTG [...]
Continue reading...The Art of Changing Gears in Poker
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Poker players use various tactics to create their deception. Being deceptive in your poker play is successful when poker players at your table assume you are playing one poker strategy style but you are disguising a different style. Deception can be conducted by doing the same thing in various spots, like always raising three times [...]
Continue reading...Tips of Beating a Tight Aggressive Poker Player
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Most poker books recommend a tight aggressive strategy for real money cash games. Online poker is very aggressively contested, so this type of poker strategy works there also. The tight aggressive style is playing a tight range of starting hands very aggressively and not checking or calling weakly when holding a good hand. This is [...]
Continue reading...A Hand in Action from $20-$40 limit play
Monday, November 30, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Just how do you handle a maniac in poker
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Revealing of a Hand Before Showdown
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Hi, I want to ask something regarding the revealing of a hand before showdown. Well, once I heard that you can only do it when there are only two players left and eventually you are the last to act. However, from some people, I also heard that you can’t do such. Just recently, I read [...]
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