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• Applying Poker Skills to Life

  
  EBYX Center — Authority: 129
  I’ve been playing online poker for many years now, and spent countless hours at the table watching men at their most devious, trying to trick me out my money. While clearly one learn the ropes by doing, and therein gets better with practice at the game itself, I think I’ve also noticed over the years an increase ...
  2 days ago

• Four of a Kind Defined

  
  Null Play — Authority: 130
  Four of a kind in online poker occurs when a player’s hand contains all four cards of a single rank, such as 7 7 7 7. The fifth card in the hand, known as the kicker, only plays in the event that both players have the same four of a kind, which could only occur if the event that there are wild cards, or if the ...
  3 days ago

• Advanced Betting Techniques in Texas Hold’em Poker - Part 2 of 3

  
  Gambling Gurus — Authority: 150
  Squeezing a profit out of marginal situations is what winning poker comes down to. 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 to ...
  4 days ago

• Texas Holdem Stats 7 Handed

  
  Darkened Poker — Authority: 119
  Some stats from the poker simulator, 500,000 Seven handed all the way to the river.  Gives you a good idea what to expect at show down.Hand type    # Hands    % of hands    # rounds won    % of rounds wonHigh               6093390    17.4097                    723     ...
  6 days ago

• Watching Amateur Poker Players

  
  The FDDJ Information Center — Authority: 130
  We have all seen the professionals play poker on the televisions, but how many of us have watched the amateurs? Sadly, most people do not even know that there is an underground culture of public amateur poker. There are video sites similar to YouTube set up where amateur poker online players post their ...
  6 days ago

• The Poker Television Effect

  
  The Tax Cheapo — Authority: 131
  Poker television is everywhere. With the accessibility of televised poker shows comes the accessibility of the dream that everyone can be a professional poker player. Many new players think that they can be the next great poker champion if they carefully study these television shows. While this is a good plan in ...
  6 days ago

• Televised Poker Commentary: the Trouble with Talk

  
  Cognitive Slippage — Authority: 129
  Call me old fashioned, but I think that poker should be a relatively quiet game. I am in favor of light talk before the cards are dealt, but I do not want to be distracted by idle chatter when I am trying to concentrate on my cards. After all the real point of the game if the value of the cards. Talking when I am ...
  6 days ago

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• Poker Commentary: Does it Help?

  
  The Uncommon Network — Authority: 132
  If you watch online poker on the television, then it is generally assumed that you have a rough knowledge of the game. Given this fact, and the fact that you can see all of the player’s cards through the hole cam, why is it that the shows provide commentary? Some feel that the commentary is a distraction from the ...
  1 week ago

• Lights, Camera, Poker

  
  Malorkan News — Authority: 128
  If you have ever seen a high stakes online poker game going on in your local casino, you have probably noticed that a crowd inevitably forms whenever large amounts of money move hands. Originally the crowds were an organic phenomenon that simply formed when rumors rippled across the casino online floor of intense ...
  1 week ago

• Do Your Opponents Watch Poker Television?

  
  Silver Elves — Authority: 130
  Most avid online poker fans agree that televised poker is an entertaining version of their favorite game. It is edited and dressed up where it is not the same thing as a normal game, but entertaining none the less. It is only the brand new players who think that what they learn from the television can be translated ...
  1 week ago

• Limit Texas Hold’em 9-Player Sit n Go Strategy

  
  KushMoney Poker Tour — Authority: 123
  The next step up from playing regular games of limit Texas hold ‘em is to try to play in a sit ‘n go tournament. A 9-player sit ‘n go is a nice number, because many of these tournaments will pay the top 3 players, depending on how much the entry is for each player. The first thing to remember is that everyone ...
  1 week ago

• Poker Isn’t All about the Money

  
  Cooler Loans For You — Authority: 130
  Clearly, at the base line of any transaction involving poker where cash and chips are concerned, everyone wants to do well because there is money involved. Outside of the world of competing for free and fun, most people would likely say they sit down at the poker table because they would like to win, and to win ...
  1 week ago

• Playing Strong Hands PreFlop

  
  Horse Hubs — Authority: 128
  Texas Holdem poker is all about the preflop cards. If you have strong pocket cards preflop, than you are in a great position for the rest of the game. You have a solid foundation from which to build. As an example, let’s take pocket Aces, the most revered of all Texas Holdem hands. With this hand you could even ...
  1 week ago

• Playing Medium Pocket Pairs: Raising

  
  The Press Hacker — Authority: 128
  Medium pocket pairs are notoriously difficult to play because they are neither good nor bad. More often than nor medium pocket pairs simply express the potential for a great hand rather than a great hand themselves. Given this conundrum, many players think that it is a good poker strategy to raise when they have a ...
  1 week ago

• Huge heads up game at Full Tilt

  
  Darkened Poker — Authority: 119
  Patrick Antonius was battling Isildur1 last night on Full Tilt and managed to build the biggest online pot so far which Patrick took down.    They were playing several heads up tables at once, 2 holdem and 2 Omaha.  Match end around 1:30am when this hand came up and Isildur1 decided to quit all the [...]
  1 week ago

• Dangers of Limping Preflop

  
  The Consumer Salon — Authority: 130
  When being dealt a big pair preflop, there is tendency for players looking for big action to want to try to disguise the hand and just limp in. Such as having pocket aces under the gun, it can feel strange to have to raise right off the bat, alerting the whole poker table to the fact that you just might have the ...
  1 week ago

• The Drawing Board

  
  Igbo Land — Authority: 129
  No matter how strong your starter poker hand in Texas Hold ‘Em, the flop still holds sway over whether your two big cards, like Pocket Kings or Aces, will win. If a flop comes out, then those first three cards on the board can reinforce or crush a starting hand. If you are holding the best pair possible, you ...
  1 week ago

• Sit-and-Go Tournament Play

  
  A Clever Spell — Authority: 134
  Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments range from large multi-table poker events, such as the WSOP, to smaller contests limited to a single table, called a Sit-and-Go, or SnG for short. The strategies for playing SnGs differ from play at multi-table games where there are many more players and most likely larger starting chip ...
  1 week ago

• Minimize Mistakes

  
  The Spark Shark — Authority: 127
  Poker is a game of decisions. Each player has to decide which hands to play based on their cards, position, and opponents. Each hand is different and you must quickly assess the individual situation to make a decision. It is inevitable that you will make some mistakes. In fact, there’s a saying about poker ...
  1 week ago

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