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Sbrugby made an interesting observation about how Phil Ivey plays. “He always leaves after losing a big pot so once he dropped the 100 he left. I think this is a very good strategy for him and I admire his disipline to stick with it. I don’t think it would be best for me, so I don’t intent to implement it into my game, but it defenitly appears to work for him.”
This is a great strategy. Setting up a ...
Here’s a starting hand chart that will get you well on your way to beating the shorthanded limit Holdem tables. This chart was developed by a 2+2 player over 3 years ago and has improved over the years with the input of the community.
You’ll notice that there’s a lot of aggression. Short handed Holdem isn’t for the faint hearted check/calling player. You have to get in the game and pump the pot up with a wide selection of hands.
Keep in ...
Playing loose isn’t easy, but when done right you can make a lot of money this way. Loose players can tilt the table, control the game, and have everyone after them. When you’re making hands, the pots you win will be much larger because of the little respect other players give you.
Here are some tips on how to play loose. The best way to begin loosening up your game is to incorporate these tips gradually, so you can pinpoint which ...
Every so often your mind gets so cluttered up with random strategies, theories, and false thoughts that you lose sight of why and how to play poker. It happens to everyone.
You can refresh yourself and come back stronger by going back to the basics. You’ll be surprised how many general aspects of poker that you completely forgot about.
Let’s start from the beginning both techinically and emotionally.
Technically
Have you gone from a long time winner to a hopeless loser? Developed ...
I’m feeling uneasy about the effect that Poker Tracker is having on online poker these days. It’s giving players an unfair advantage and ruining online games.
Poker Tracker alone is an incredibly useful poker tool. It gathers your hand histories so you can analyze numerous aspects of your online play, such as your win rate, ROI in certain positions, and your average loss/profit for each hand. You use it after a game to train yourself to ...
Poker players are crazy. There’s so much trust in the game that it’s ridiculous, especially when the goal is to directly take the other players money. Unfortunately, there are a few bad apples looking to take advantage of these trusting players.
Here are some common scams I have encountered during my online poker poker venture.
Mild: The side-bet scam
Watch out for the players hovering around sit-and-go tables trying to make private side-bets on the results. For example, they’ll register for a ...
Poker isn’t a hard game and you don’t need years of experience to become good at it. You don’t even need to play that well to make a lot of money. You just need to understand what the winning players are doing and thinking.
A winning limit players should average about 1 big bet per 100 hands (about an hour playing 6max). With this basic formula, an average $5/10 grinder should be able to make more then $5000 per month, providing ...
Fancy Play Syndrome, AKA playing backwards, is a very serious condition among poker players. It causes you to have a high short-term variance while being -ev (negative expected value) in the long run.
Players with this condition can be found all over, but it primarily effects mid limit players who think they are gods gift to poker. They’re usually the ones playing every other hand at during a ring game or getting their chips in early on with marginal hands ...
When online poker first came about in the late 90’s, it made a lot of players uneasy. Not because they thought it would hurt their live games, but because they believed it wasn’t real poker.
Since those early days of online poker, many of the anti-online players have switched to playing almost exclusively online poker. Today, most professional players don’t even see the need to play live. So what makes online poker so much better then live poker? Here are ...
There are a lot of similarities and differences between poker on a PC and Mac poker. These frequently asked questions page should answer all of your basic Mac poker questions. If I missed anything, please ask below and either I or one of Poker on a Macs readers will help you out.
Which Poker sites are Mac compatible?
Do I need virtual PC?
What are the Mac OS X system requirements?
Can I play against non-Mac poker players?
Mac vs. ...
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