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No Fold’em Hold’em

Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 Professional

Every once in awhile you’ll hear an individual player’s technique or even a whole table’s worth of player’s poker style referred to as “no fold’em hold’em.”  What this means is that the player/s in question are exhibiting the obvious quality that they are electing to play a lot of different hands, and refusing to throw [...]

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Three Great Vegas Poker Rooms

Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Professional

It definitely has its share of regulars, but Las Vegas isn’t the tourist capital of the world for nothing.  Outside of all the shows and the glitz and glamour, some of the best gambling in the world can be found both on the new and old Vegas Strip, especially when it comes to poker.  Many [...]

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Avoid Poker Meltdown

Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 Professional

Try as you may, eventually you are going to get really frustrated, angry or upset while playing poker.  Everybody does it, even the top players in the world.  It can’t be helped, poker can be a very emotional game, not to mention that nobody likes to lose money, which adds a whole other level of [...]

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Live Poker Notetaking

Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 Professional

There’s a reason why so many poker players choose to play online poker almost exclusively and never step into a live cardroom; there are just too many technological benefits.  With online poker you can play multiple tables at once, not have to worry about any physical tells you may be giving off, and most importantly, [...]

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The Importance of Repetition

Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Professional

Poker tells shown in movies and on dramatized television are often never resemble the types of tells that exist in real poker games.  Players in movies are given tells in the form of unusual physical/bodily behavior that somehow gives away the type of hand they have.  Granted, there will always be the rare exceptions where [...]

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Capitalizing with Kings

Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 Professional

When it comes to starting hands that are hard to get away from, pocket Kings is definitely in the top three along with pocket Aces and AK.  For whatever reason, strong starting hands can cause players to lose their minds and lose their chips at the same time when they refuse to believe that their [...]

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Stepping Out with Rags

Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2010 Professional

When friends or students of mine ask me the best ways to learn about poker, they’ll normally inquire whether or not they can advance their game by watching a lot of poker on TV. To me, learning strategy for games like hold’em through watching shows like High Stakes Poker or Poker After Dark is like [...]

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Quitting While You’re Ahead

Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 Professional

Poker players in general have a standard reputation of being able to stay at a table for extremely long periods of time, a potential problem not really associated with any other competitive activities like Baseball or Soccer.  This ability for extended sessions has lead to the heated debate of just when it is the right [...]

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Making Use of Training Tools

Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 Professional

I am no stranger to getting completely hooked on poker.  When it was first introduced to me (right around the same time as the poker boom), I did what so many others do and rushed right out and bought every poker book and DVD I could find.  My collection now numbers well into the double [...]

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Calling Out of Curiosity

Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 Professional

It is safe to say that the reason a lot of players end up making bad calls in situations where they obviously should have thrown their hand in the much is because of curiosity.  Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us.  Does the other player really have a flush?  Is he trying to [...]

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The Bad Bluff

Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 Professional

Bluffing in Texas Hold’em is practically mandatory at all levels of the game, with the general exception of when you are playing low-limit poker against really inexperienced players.  Bluffing adds another way of winning chips to your arsenal, something that will come in handy when the deck starts to run cold for extended periods of [...]

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The Poker Lifestyle

Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 Professional

When it comes to poker, most of just think of it in terms of strategy, technique, luck and all of the other things that play a factor in whether or not we win/loss a hand.  There is however a very important side to the game that many of us ignore when first getting into the [...]

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Why We Raise Pre-Flop

Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 Professional

One of the most common questions I get asked by players new to competitive poker (by competitive I mean poker played outside of a casual home game), is why so many veterans like to raise frequently pre-flop when they can just call/check and see a low-risk flop?  In theory the question makes sense, after all [...]

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The Dangers of Overbetting

Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 Professional

Overbetting is not something that only exists in games frequented by newer and less experienced poker players, you can in fact find it at even the higher levels of play, albeit a lot less often.  Overbetting normally happens for a few reasons including a general lack of bet-sizing knowledge, and the thought that betting too [...]

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