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Home Poker Tournament Pitfalls: Logistics and Comfort

Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in the “Home Poker Tournament Pitfalls” series.  Future topics will include such topics as determining the number and type of chips to use, designing an appropriate structure for the tournament, identifying issues with common rulings, and many, many more.  Please stay tuned for more articles in the very near [...]

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Series Announcement: Home Poker Tournament Pitfalls

Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Over the next several days, I will be writing a series of articles on the most common pitfalls of home game tournaments, including dealer errors, rule issues, player behaviors, tournament director responsibilities, etc.  I hope you will enjoy it.  The series will start “pre-flop” with a look at inviting players and reserving seats; it will [...]

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Learning Strategy from Beginners

Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I recently hosted a tournament for the completely inexperienced and players who knew next to the nothing about No Limit Texas Hold’em.  I can honestly say, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long, long time.  I don’t say that to be mean for I was laughing with them, not at them (more on that [...]

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Hosting for Inexperienced Players (Random Poker Thought IX)

Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I will be hosting a No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament tonight for about 16 co-workers.  For most of them, the only experience they have with this format or even this game is what they’ve seen on ESPN.  I wonder how it will go. I’m looking forward to it.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal [...]

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Almost Everything I Needed to Know About Poker, I Learned in Kindergarten

Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Linda Johnson wrote in a recent CardPlayer magazine article (and since I’m sitting in a hotel room in Williamsburg, VA, I don’t have the article with me) that she has three goals when she sits at a table.  They are: To win money, have fun, and ensure other people at the table have fun.  Those [...]

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The Grand Slam Poker Source Forum

Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

The Grand Slam Poker Source is proud to announce the grand opening of The Grand Slam Poker Source Forum.  To better serve my readers, I wanted to provide them with a place to exchange their own thoughts, ideas, and opinion.  I hope The Grand Slam Poker Source Forum can provide that for everybody, including me. I [...]

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I’ll Take a Stack of Chips on Rye, Please

Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

How many times have you found yourself in this position?  You’re short-stacked with 15 - 20 big blinds, out of position in the small or big blind, and facing a raise from early position.  The raise generated one or more callers and you have a marginal hand like 98s.  A pretty common predicament, isn’t it?  Well, what do [...]

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Download the CCT Equity Estimator For Free

Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

The Grand Slam Poker Source is proud to offer the trial version of the CCT Equity Estimator - Version 1.1 at no cost. The CCT Equity Estimator uses the Independent Chip Model (ICM) to help players identify a reasonable split of the payout money if they wish to chop at the end of a tournament.  The [...]

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Poker Quiz II: Final Table Deals - Results

Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

As with the first poker quiz, Poker Quiz: Pick Your Poison (published on February 1, 2008), the answers I received to questions in Poker Quiz II: Final Table Deals (published February 13, 2008) were very well-reasoned, well articulated, and all over the place.  For those of you who do not remember, the quiz gave three final table scenarios and asked readers to [...]

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Chris Moneymaker Equals 65?

Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) just released it’s list of 64 competitors for the 2008 version of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship.  One name was conspicuously absent from the original list of 64 players - 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion, Chris Moneymaker; however, Card Player Magazine reported a recent change to the [...]

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Welcome to the New and Improved Grand Slam Poker Source

Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

Welcome to the new and improved Grand Slam Poker Source.  We’re still working on some of the updates and themes for the new site, but we wanted to transition to it as soon as possible.  The new site will give us more flexibility to provide information, commentary, opinions, and anything else poker related.  So, please [...]

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February 16, 2007 Results (Impossible Net Earnings)

Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

I think I may have done the impossible on Saturday.  I played in three tournaments Saturday, was knocked out of the lowest dollar tournament very early, cashed in the two higher dollar tournaments, never used a re-buy, only used one add-on, and finished exactly even for the day. I suppose an explanation is in order.  For [...]

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TGSPS Answers Your Questions (February 16, 2008)

Date: Sat, Feb 16, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

If you have a poker-related question you would like answered, please visit the Ask TGSPS!!! page by selecting the tab above and following the easy instructions.  I will answer your questions as quickly as possible, and more importantly, give you the most honest and best answer I can.  Please give me as much detail as [...]

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Tournament Blind Structures: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 Internet Live Tournament

It never fails to amaze me how many people play in poker tournaments without knowing the blind structure or how often blinds will increase.  How can they play their optimal poker and expect to maximize their chances of winning without knowing the speed of the tournament in which they are playing?  Players are best served when [...]

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