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Dealing with a Bad Beat

Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 Professional

OK you lost that big hand and you were ahead. Yes, that was a bad beat. Now what? First, Don’t Go on Tilt. Bad Beats happen, it is part of the game and you cannot let one hand that is over and done continue to negatively affect your game. Put it behind you, cool down and [...]

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Bad Beat

Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 Professional

What exactly is a bad beat? Technically, any time you are ahead in a hand and your opponent comes from behind to beat you, well technically that is a bad beat. But there is more to a bad beat than that. Let’s say you have KK and your opponent has JJ and the flop comes J84. [...]

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Tilt

Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 Professional

Tilt is a term for a state of mental confusion or frustration in which a poker player knowingly adopts a sub-optimal, over-aggressive strategy. [Wikipedia] Placing an opponent on tilt or dealing with being on tilt oneself is a very important aspect of poker. Tilt is a relatively frequent occurrence, due to frustration, animosity between players, or [...]

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Tournament Rules #36

Date: Tue, Jun 3, 2008 Professional

In our continuing look at the Tournament Director’s Association rules, we come to one of the more general rules, this one on Poker Etiquette. TDA Rule #36: Etiquette Violations “Repeated etiquette violations will result in penalties. Examples include unnecessarily touching other players cards or chips, delay of the game, and excessive chatter. Players are required [...]

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Rainbow Flop

Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Professional

When the flop comes with three different suits, it is called a rainbow flop. You may hear the tournament director call out a flop: “King, Ten, Four, Rainbow.” This means the K104 were of different suits and the odds of a flush are greatly diminished. To make a flush after a rainbow flop, you [...]

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Continuation Bet

Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 Professional

We spoke in our last post about the importance of being able to play after a flop has missed your hand. One of the most recognized “post-flop” strategies is the continuation bet. The continuation bet is one that continues your pre-flop aggression, which generally means you raised before the flop and are going [...]

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When the Flop Misses You

Date: Wed, May 28, 2008 Professional

Playing poker with a big hand is fun, you can win a pile of chips, a big hand is exciting BUT it doesn’t happen very often. In fact, in most poker games you will fold many more hands than you play and when you do play, you will miss hitting the flop most of [...]

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Min. Raise

Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 Professional

In every form of poker there is a minimum amount you must bet in order to raise the pot, how the minimum is calculate changes from game to game but every form of poker has a minimum raise. Perhaps even more controversial then limping into a pot is just making the minimum raise or “Min. [...]

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Limping

Date: Sat, May 24, 2008 Professional

Limping means entering the pot by calling the big blind or making the minimum bet and definitely not raising the pot. Limping is considered to be a conservative play and is frowned upon by aggressive players, particularly No Limit players. There is a lot to be said about limping, here is just a fraction of the [...]

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Table Image

Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 Professional

Do you have a table image? Answer: Yes! Why? Because table image in not what you project or how you play or what you say. Table image is how the other players at the table see you and at any poker table there are going to be some players paying attention and formulating an impression of how [...]

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ABC Poker

Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 Professional

  ABC Poker is simple, straight forward and safe poker. Raising with your big pairs, folding nearly everything else in early and even middle position and not getting into big pots with drawing hands. ABC Poker is what defines players who we call “rocks”, but there is more to ABC Poker than simply a very [...]

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Tournament Rule #28: Protect Your Cards

Date: Sun, May 18, 2008 Professional

Another important selection from the Tournament Director’s Association rules. TDA Rule #28: If a dealer kills an unprotected hand, the player will have no redress and will not be entitled to a refund of bets. However, if a player had raised and the raise had not yet been called, the raise will be returned to the [...]

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Side Pot

Date: Fri, May 16, 2008 Professional

Sometimes you run out of money. It happens in a tournament to everyone but the eventual winner. Suppose someone bets 25,000 and you only have 6,000 left. You are not out of the hand. In old movies, if you couldn’t cover the bet you lost the hand, that is not the case in modern [...]

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Money Plays

Date: Wed, May 14, 2008 Professional

Do not confuse the previous post on “Table Stakes” with the cash game rule called “Money Plays”. Many rooms allow players to have both chips and cash at the table. When cash is allowed, we say that: “Money Plays”. This does not mean that the cash game actually becomes ‘cash only’ instead of chips [...]

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