Champion of Poker

How your personality affects your poker game part two

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 [...]

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Just how do you handle a maniac in poker

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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Only Allowed to Call

Hello, Just the other day, I played no limit at Poker Stars. At some point, I was not allowed to do the raising and all. Blinds by the way were $100/$200. With Qt of hearts, I was small blind. Eventually, for 200 two players called while for $100 I called. Later on, big blind checked, [...]

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Showing Hands Anytime

Hello, In one of my games, there was a beginner. Well, it was pretty much obvious then that he was a beginner. One thing I noticed was that he kept on raising unreasonable amounts back then, hence making every player fold. There are instance when someone had a decent hand and will spent some time [...]

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Troubled Because of the Coins Left

Hi, In the game I was into the other night, one player went all in on the flop, while other players were raising a lot after their bet. Later on, the first player got the winning hand. An argument appeared as we don’t know what will happen to the coins left? We were wondering then [...]

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Tournament and Cash Games Issues

Hello, First, I would like to thank you for creating a wonderful site like this one. It has been a great help to me and to many others. Well, I am actually here right now because of the two questions about the showdown of hands in tournament and cash games that I’ve been wanting to [...]

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