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• Tom "Durrrr" Dwan Offered Sponsorship

  
  Where Worklife Matters — Authority: 129
  Being one of the best players in the world has its advantages and Tom “durrrr” Dwan is taking full advantage of that. He has a whole crew of online poker sites wanting his representation. And you can add one more to that list: Full Tilt One of Dwan’s most profitable skills is that ...
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• Relative Position, Info Raising, and Isolation Betting

  
  Transmission Wire — Authority: 126
  The online poker situation: You’re playing 1/2 six-max and you’re dealt AJd on the cutoff. It’s folded around to you and you make the standard raise of 4x the big blind. Making it 8 to play. You get called by the small blind and the big blind. The dealer folds. The flop comes Jc-Kh-2c. The ...
  4 hours ago

• The Slow Play: Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker – Part 1 of 3

  
  Content for Reprint Blog — Authority: 150
  Winning poker comes down to being able to squeeze a profit out of marginal situations. The object is to win every hand you play, not to win every hand played. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose. Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made to ...
  10 hours ago

• Winning More with Less

  
  TN9 Biz Blog — Authority: 131
  It’s not a big secret that winning a lot of poker hands and averaging about 10bb/hr is a great way to walk away a winner. But let’s think of this in terms of how we go about doing this. Let’s say you’re playing at a 2/4 NL Hold ‘Em game and you win 2 hands per hour. You don’t lose any ...
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• Snake Venom Distractions

  
  Anemated — Authority: 128
  You’ll face them eventually, and probably already have. Distractions. They cloud your judgment and make your online poker game weaker, less focused, and more prone to mistakes (the deadliest of sins in a game where the man who makes the least mistakes wins). So just what are these distractions that ...
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• The Slow Play: Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker – Part 1 of 3

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 165
  Winning poker comes down to being able to squeeze a profit out of marginal situations. The object is not to win every hand played, but to win every hand you play. The best way to do this is to out bet your opponents. Every bet made should have a purpose. Either it is made to induce a weaker hand to fold, or it is made ...
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• Over pairs on very dry boards

  
  Darkened Poker — Authority: 114
  The problem with over pairs is the last thing you want to do is stack off for over 100 Big Blinds with just one pair. So I no longer bet all three streets if that would leave me pot committed by the river.
  4 days ago

• All About Face and Body Tells in Texas Hold’em Poker - Part 3 of 4

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 148
  “I see you. Your eyes. Your hands. Your chips. Everything. So I don’t need to see your cards.” - Poker Pro Howard Lederer on a Commercial for Poker Site FullTilt.NET When one faces a confrontational situation, the fight or flight response is human nature. Since poker is often a confrontational endeavor, ...
  4 days ago

• Don’t Splash in the Water

  
  A Clever Spell — Authority: 129
  Any good fisherman knows that the key to making that good catch is to be as fisherman like as possible. Quiet, patient, and ready to make that tug when the timing is just right. Just like fishing, poker is full of these metaphorical fish. I was in Cherokee recently and the table I was given was full ...
  4 days ago

• The World Series of Poker Investment Banker Steven Begleiter

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 618
  This is a guest post from Texas Holdem Investing . Steven Begleiter is the latest (ex-)investment professional to hit the headlines for exceptional performance at the Texas Holdem Main Event at the World Series of Poker which starts on November 7 th at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. However, there is a twist with ...
  4 days ago

• Playing Texas Hold’Em Online - What Should You Expect?

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 148
  Nowadays it’s possible to play texas hold’em online, which means you can play whenever you want, wherever you want. Before the technologie to makes this possible existed, you needed to get a group of friends together, which wasn’t always the most easiest thing to do, especially not if your schedules weren’t ...
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• How to Play When It’s Heads-Up in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 148
  The game of Hold’em changes once you get to heads-up play. You can make a few big mistakes in limit Hold’em and, it sometimes works in your favor if you appear to be a loose player, but a series of small mistakes can end the game early. Constant small misreads of your opponent are far more likely to end your ...
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• How to Play Premium Starting Hands in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 148
  “In order to win consistently at poker, you need to understand which hands are profitable to play and which aren’t.” - Poker Author Mike Caro I have seen the types of starting hands played change in the last five years with the predominance of televised poker, which is not a good thing and leads to more losing ...
  5 days ago

• Mind the Game

  
  The Dart Maker Blog — Authority: 125
  Poker is more than just a game of cards. Poker is a mind game that involves complex psychology. Experienced players know this because practice has made them more aware of the subtle nuances, thinking and manipulation that make up the game. To win at poker , one always has to think about what the players are ...
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• Pocket Pair Percentages

  
  The GMGap Blog — Authority: 127
  Poker players have to continually make decisions on how to play their poker hands. It can even be difficult to decide whether or not to play a pocket pair. Below are the percentage ratios of how often a pocket pair will win against another if the round goes to showdown at the casino : * Higher pocket pair ...
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• Online Poker Tells

  
  Urban Bear Marketing — Authority: 130
  Poker is a game of people, not just cards, and the experts always advise watching your opponents to pick up “tells” - body language or reactions that reveal the player’s mood or thoughts at the casino . When you are playing online poker , you can’t see your opponents so it’s harder to get a read on ...
  5 days ago

• Poker Tactics for Beginners

  
  Floenz Blog — Authority: 130
  Newcomers to the game of poker are often nave about how to use skill and tactics to win instead of relying on luck. Once a player gets a little experience at the casino , it becomes obvious that there is a lot more to the game than luck and a lot of different nuances and tactics to observe. Sometimes trying to ...
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• The Importance of Table Position to Betting in Texas Hold’em Poker

  
  PokerGrind.net Poker Blog — Authority: 439
  "Holdem is a lot like making love: Position is everything." - WPT Host Vince van Patten
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• Playing Stuck vs Playing Flush

  
  Lucky-Fest — Authority: 129
  Poker players tend to act very differently from hand to hand depending on how well they’ve done leading up to that moment. If you’ve lost some money, clearly you are concerned with getting even, and then ahead, while when you’ve accumulated some meat to your stack you are afforded a more open method of online ...
  6 days ago

• No Substitute for Experience

  
  Peering with Attainment — Authority: 129
  My introduction to the world of poker theory and application came through books. Though I’d played in home games and some online before, I’d never really thought of the game of Texas hold em outside the confines of a pastime, a great entertainment that if I made some money during, great. As I got more into ...
  6 days ago

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