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While playing your typical local game, or card room game, you need to be sure of your opponents moves, as well as your own. Most avid players will play plenty of home games against the same opponents, and be put into the same situations. Within these groups, there is always one strong player that usually ends in the black, or even by the end of the session, this person, [...]
It seems poker can be seen everywhere now. GSN has High Stakes Poker, NBC has Poker After Dark, and of course ESPN has the World Series of Poker. Now, it is time for one of the actual gaming networks to get a show. G4 now brings you the reality poker show 2 Months 2 Million. The show covers four young professionals that pool their money to make $2 million [...]
Pocket Aces, the weapons of mass destruction, everyone’s favorite hand, but why do people keep losing with them? The biggest problems with amateurs playing pocket aces is they either A) play them to slow or B) play them to fast where they cannot get any equity out of the hand.
Depending on the situation of the table, there are many ways of playing Pocket Aces, but there should always be [...]
Just recently I found myself walking around the Rio Casino. Periodically checking out the WSOP and watching some of the main event. I decided to take a glance at the cash games to see if I could find a juicy one to play in. I walked up, and there it was. A 2-5 game in which four friends were playing. Each player was about 5k deep and creating tons [...]
The funnest part of the game that should be incorporated into your game the least. Bluffing. Everyone loves to bluff. The massive pots you take off your friends, family, and other players don’t compare to just winning with aces. Yet, bluffs need to perfectly timed, correctly read, and properly bet. So often do you see amateurs throw in final bets on the river because that is the only way they can win the pot. Although this is true, their intuition [...]
In heads-up play one normally wants to play a very aggressive style as this gives the greatest chance of being able to force an opponent to bend to your will, continually surrendering blinds and small pots to you in fear of a big confrontation. However, while playing aggressive is normally the way to go, what about when you are fortunate enough to enter heads-up play with a large chip lead?
When holding a big chip lead in heads-up [...]
The final table of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event is fast approaching, with the nine remaining players set to do battle on November 9th until a victor is decided. To reach this point those nine players had to navigate a treacherous and gigantic player field that began with 6,844 players all clamoring to be the one to win it all. The large player field is just a small example of the poker explosion that has occurred [...]
We’ve all been in this situation a million times, our pocket tens turn into a set when the flop comes down and we bet it aggressively, but there is the one guy who calls and calls until finally on the river he makes his gutshot straight draw and takes us for a lot of chips. The temptation here is to cuss him out, call him a retard, let him know each and every way in which he is a [...]
While you play the same game whether you are playing online or in a brick and mortar casino, there are significant differences in how the games run and how players must adjust their play depending on whether they are online or offline. Knowing how to deal with these differences is imperative, especially for a player just starting to play online after playing live poker or vice versa.
The first and most obvious difference between live and online play [...]
Forcing other players to fold is probably the most efficient way to collect chips in poker. While winning a big pot against another opponent is always great, it cannot be counted on, as a big pot requires some combination of big hands, aggressive play, and intestinal fortitude. The big pot will be a sporadic occurrence, while forcing the fold will be one’s main method of collecting chips.
The continuation bet is one of the most useful tools in [...]
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