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How Much Is Your Time Worth As A Poker Player?

Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

An economics concept normally associated with international trade, which looks at ways where country A has an absolute advantage producing two commodities over country B (i.e. is better at producing both) yet they can find a way to trade with each other so the output of both commodities can increase, or savings can be made, [...]

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Is it Ever Correct To Leave A Good Game?

Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

One of the downsides of getting old is that there never seem to be any certainties any more. This is not a comment on the recent lack of “cannot fails” running in the second race at Lingfield, but an observation that, quite often, principles which when you were younger you held to be inviolate begin [...]

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Suicide Kings

Date: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

Once upon a time, in a poker world, not so far, far away, the idea of hold’em on TV was purely fantasy. Media coverage amounted to little more than a bi annual feature on the World Series in one of the colour supplements, if you were lucky. The internet was but a glint in Bill [...]

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When To Play Aces Against Multiple Opponents

Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

Does A-A want lots of opponents or not? First, let’s get one thing out of the way. You are going to play A-A pre-flop; you are not going to fold. There are certain very rare circumstances in which you might consider folding A-A pre-flop – in a satellite where you have enough chips to guarantee victory, [...]

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Heads Up With Hannibal Lecter

Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

‘Manhunter’ the first movie in the Hannibal Lecter series is a great film. Will Graham, the hero of the story, is a detective who empathises with murderers in order to catch them. He “thinks their thoughts” to such an extent, that in his back story he suffered from a nervous breakdown shortly after catching Dr. [...]

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Avoiding Burnout When Grinding Multiple Tables Online

Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

A useful technique I introduced into my game some years ago were a few forced sanity checks. A few triggers that would lead me to take compulsory stock of what I was up to, so that I could take immediate remedial action if required. The idea is to set up a sensitive early warning system [...]

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A Deeper Look At Emotions In Poker

Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 Professional Internet Live Tournament

It is a pretty well accepted stereotype that men tend to not talk about emotions. Well, those of us in the realm of psychology know that this stereotype seems to hold true most of the time. Other than to occasionally admit to some anger and tilt, poker players are especially unlikely to take [...]

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Freeroll Strategy

Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

I very rarely, if ever, play freeroll tournaments. I always remember with thanks winning a $6000 freeroll that helped get my online bankroll out of the mud and up and running, so I’m certainly not going to poke fun at them now. However, the truth is that nowadays you can attract 1000+ players to a [...]

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NYC Poker Scene Vs London Poker Scene

Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

I catch the F train to Lexington and then get the 6 to the Upper East Side. The November wind is whistling between the high buildings so I turn up my collar. It’s nearly the weekend, and the bars are rocking. Attractive single women eye up the male passers-by, in the way that they do [...]

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Thou Shalt Not Worship False Idols

Date: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

A while ago I was in Las Vegas to play in and to cover the World Series. The sun beats down on Sin City during the day. There is no shade and very little breeze. Instead, the asphalt of the street and cement sidewalks absorb the sun’s rays, swirling the heat back up towards those [...]

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Raising Stakes

Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

Somewhere far away, close to the high-tide of poker greatness, the reality of raised stakes and recklessness hit home. Whilst the elite battled hands in the war room at Bellagio, playing the poker game that Michelangelo would have painted, I matched up against the lower echelons, civilian against civilian; a scruffy, blind leading the blind [...]

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The Big Fish

Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

A friend recently asked me if I remember the first time I played no limit in a casino. And as I re-called the story, I had to smile at just how new and exciting everything seemed to me as I made my way down to New Orleans, Louisiana. It was in the fall of 2003, [...]

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The Isildur1 Phenomenon

Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

Anyone with even a passing interest in online-poker will surely have heard about the recent durrrr heads-up death matches with Isildur1, a relatively unknown European psycho. These matches have been historical in the context of online-poker, in the sense that these swings are the largest yet seen. Everybody knows durrrr, a player who has dominated [...]

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Why It’s Best Not To Explain Your Plays

Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 Professional Internet Live Tournament

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. A few years ago, I was playing in Harrah’s when I heard some of the ‘best’ post-hand analysis ever. In brief, the small blind had raised pre-flop and two limpers called the raise. Flop came 843, raiser bet, one [...]

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