It’s a question of range: Guest Post by Carl “The Dean” Sampson

Date: Mon, May 6, 2013

Everything you do at a poker table is affected by what type of range you have. This applies to both you and your opponents. If your opponent raises and you want to 3/bet then you are doing this blind if […]

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A look at combatting ordinary regs by Carl “The Dean” Sampson

Date: Wed, May 1, 2013

These days you cannot sit down on any no limit ring game online for decent stakes without encountering several regulars. Now there are regulars and there are regulars so to speak. If a regular at your level is playing for […]

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Book Review: The Mental Game of Poker 2

Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2013

I just got done reading Jared Tendler and Barry Carter’s follow up to their ground-breaking book The Mental Game of Poker, . As one might expect based on the title, TMGP2 extends what Tendler and Carter presented in TMGP. Some […]

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Songkran in Thailand

Date: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

Songkran is a holiday in Thailand that I avoided for many years. For those not familiar with it, Songkran is a festival in Thailand that the Thais call their New Year (though they also celebrate the international new year and […]

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Book Review: Poker Hero

Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2013

Poker Hero by Florian Roßner is one of the best poker training books I’ve read in a long, long, long time. In fact, one of my only complaints about the book is that it should be twice as long and […]

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Online Poker in 2013

Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2013

Several years ago I wrote a couple of articles about the gap between online poker software and what players had come to expect from other, non-poker related, products. You can scan over the two posts here and here. Being back […]

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Greg Raymer’s Prostitution Arrest

Date: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of days, you’ve probably heard that 2004 WSOP Main Event winner, and all around good-guy, Greg Raymer was busted in a prostitution sting. The reaction in the poker community has […]

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Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-Year-Old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s Loudest, Craziest, and Richest Crew

Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013

There was a lot of buzz going around about the Ship It Holla Ballas book going around and I had actually added it to my Amazon Wish List planning on buying it. Fortunately the publisher mailed me a copy for […]

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Chris Ferguson Talks Business

Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

Considering Ferguson’s recent settlement with the DOJ and his claim to have no idea that Ray Bitar was running his multi-billion dollar business into the ground, you gotta appreciate his advice on treating poker like a business. Sort of reminds […]

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The first 2013 New Year’s Resolution you must break: Guest Post by Jeff

Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2013

New Year’s Resolutions are illogical. The use of the calendar as some sort of blackmailing device against your short comings doesn’t work. Those who make positive mindful changes set themselves up to succeed. Typical New Year fueled poker related goals are misguided […]

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Affiliate Managers: Don’t do This!

Date: Fri, Jan 4, 2013

Here’s an email someone sent me the other day. Hi ,my name is Morris ,and I’m the marketing manager of the XXXXX network skin www.XXXXXXXXXX. com , I write to you for introduce a very nice opportunity to work together […]

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Meeting in the Middle

Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012

I try to steer clear of non-gaming related politics on this blog mostly because I hate when people dabble in topics they are ill prepared to discuss intelligently. I remember after 9-11, many of the technology related blogs I read […]

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Fake Poker News

Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012

I know it’s difficult to tell sometimes but I do have a sense of humor. I think you need one in order to get by in a business that seems to get completely turned on its head every few years. […]

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Why you need to become a better poker player: Guest Post by Carl “The Dean” Sampson

Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012

Some years ago I was of the opinion that playing multiple tables was a waste of time simply because no player could play as well whilst playing multiple tables. This opinion lacked in depth knowledge and it was not until […]

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