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• Keeping Notes in Online Poker

  February 10, 2011

  When you first start playing online tournaments, you’ll notice that some things are done entirely different than what you meet at live tables and casinos. A big problem you might be facing is the lack of physical tells. Online, your opponent is shrunk to a random nickname. You can’t see his/her face, hear them, or [...]

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• Building a Bankroll

  February 7, 2011

  So you figured you want to try to find out if you got what it takes to beat this game. So now it’s just a matter of taking some money and finding a game to sit at, right? Not exactly. poker is a game of variance. Luck is an element that is very dominant in [...]

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• The Birth of a Poker Player

  February 4, 2011

  I first got acquainted with online poker about 3 years ago. We were a bunch of young friends playing at home, gradually learning the game, for smallish stakes, just for the fun of it, for the weekly ounce of thrill. One day a friend of mine told me about a website he started playing at [...]

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• Small Buy-in Tournaments – early stage play

  February 2, 2011

  My advice to all poker starters would be to try out SNG’s. They’re a great learning ground for a cheap entrance fee (as little as 1$ in most sites), and failing to win one mean only the loss of that buy-in, while in cash games there’s no limit to how many times you reload your [...]

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• Shifting Gears at SNGs

  January 31, 2011

  Playing tournaments can become frustrating sometimes. As a regular at the low buy in SNGs, I often come across one of those dry spells, where 20-30 tournaments can pass by without winning money in any of them… but every once in a while, if you play your cards, your position, and your opponents right, and [...]

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• Hand Reading in Online Poker

  November 22, 2010

  When looking at the vast variety of skills a winning poker player uses at the table, the ability to “read” the hand of the opponent deems the most important as well as the most complicated attribute. Some world class pros who are masters at hand reading rely on this alone for their success at the [...]

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• No Limit Texas Holdem Heads Up Strategy When You Have the Chip Lead

  October 10, 2010

  Let’s say you have 2000 chips and your opponent has 1000 chips – you are in control of the Tournament. This is your chance to win it. Your goal would be to stay in this profitable position and finish the guy off. You are going to back up on the pre-flop raises here, because now [...]

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• Satellite

  October 5, 2010

  To get to the WSOP, most people win a satellite tournament and doing that depends on the tournament’s structure. Here are the three common types of satellite structures: 1. Winner-take-all – a satellite which awards only one seat to the WSOP. 2. A satellite awarding a relatively low number of seats to the WSOP. Take [...]

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• Dealers Today

  September 27, 2010

  The very first thing we should consider when talking about poker dealing is that dealers tend not to be generic. They vary in training, ability and desire. Most casinos do not train their dealers. This betrays a lack of respect for employees and customers. Casinos should take responsibility to train dealers and protect them from [...]

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• Poker Tips To Remember!

  September 20, 2010

  Player, when poker playing remember the following tips! When being dealt your hole cards, be sure to memorize them. Be sure to repeat the values and suits in your head a couple times in order that you never have to look back. For looking back at your cards in the middle of the action will [...]

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• Go Tell It On The Mountain

  September 16, 2010

  One of the secrets to playing good poker is having the ability to read the opponents at your table. Poker tells are any behaviors, habits, reactions or habits which you notice that in effect “tells” or gives a hint about the other players. A good player can control their own body language to make sure [...]

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• The Patience Virtue

  July 18, 2010

  When you see successful poker players in person or on television, the ones who consistently walk away from the tables with chips and wins usually have in common one extremely crucial quality. Well, that is patience. Here is how patience in poker is usually exhibited: Card cashing is a no no. Even if sometimes it [...]

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• THE RIGHT WAY AND THE WRONG WAY

  June 24, 2010

  As all true blue poker players know, there is a right and a wrong way to play the game. However, similar to many other life situations, wrong and right are often relative. In poker, for instance, the correct plays to succeed at online poker could be less effective in live Casino Poker. Another example: winning [...]

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• Folding on the Bubble in SNG’s

  April 19, 2010

  In all poker tournaments, the mindset of the competing players shifts just before the pay-out seats are finally reached. This is called The Bubble and in a SNG tournament the bubble would be reached if there are three places being paid but there are actually four players left. When you reach this stage, the tendency [...]

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• Tips for Betting in Online Poker

  April 15, 2010

  In every case, you would want to consider your own hand and what common hands you would beat and what hands would beat you. Hand: Betting on the strength of your own hand, getting a pair of aces at the beginning of a game are a great foundation to build upon, though an ace and [...]

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• Average and Variance in Poker Playing

  March 24, 2010

  Average? Variance? What are these terms? What is the difference between them? If you want to be a good poker player, you must be able to understand answer such questions. In technical statistics terms, average is a measure of central tendency and variance is a measure of probability. Average tells you what tends to happen [...]

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• Betting Size or Sizing Bets

  March 23, 2010

  The first decision when assessing the strength of your hand is whether or not to fold, to call, or to raise. The second decision is how many chips to bet. Bet sizing is actually the most common leak in poker, but the most effortlessly repaired. Let’s say you are playing a $1 – $2 table [...]

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• News for Newbies

  March 22, 2010

  Everyone who plays poker a lot sees a whole lot of weirdness at the table. People play bizarre hands for no reason; odd flops happen back to back; some angle-shooter manages to get away with an out-of-line move; the three of clubs or the eight of hearts seems to be haunting; some goofball decides to [...]

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• Making Trouble For Yourself

  March 21, 2010

  A faint heart never a flush did fill. One thing a lot of mediocre players do is fixate on avoiding trouble. It is true that if you have a choice between “trouble” and “no trouble”, and they have the same financial impact, choosing “no trouble” makes simple sense. But, the critical thing is this: “same [...]

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• Playing on the Bubble

  March 19, 2010

  Have you ever been short stacked in a poker Tournament when you are right on the bubble? Before you answer, let’s just make sure that we are on the same page. The bubble is what is referred to as right out of the money. For example, if the top three places pay and you are [...]

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• Five Tips

  March 18, 2010

  Do not Play Every Hand One of the number one mistakes among beginners is that they play too many hands. Playing more does not necessarily mean winning more, so try to stay in less than half the hands you are dealt. Do Not Play Drunk Even if you are just playing with friends on a [...]

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• The Main Factors to Being a Good Player

  March 16, 2010

  Many people who watch poker on a regular basis will notice that it obviously takes a special kind of features to become a real pro. Some describe those pros as tense, assertive and invested in the game. This is how things might look on the outside, however in order to become a pro all it [...]

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• Some Poker Hints

  February 25, 2010

  Careful player, don’t you go playing too many hands. Such foolishness is for the birds! If you want to be successful at the table, know when to fold. Allow me to break it down for you: There are five categories of pre-flop hands… Great Hands – Ace/Ace, King/King, Queen/Queen, Joker/Joker, Ace/King These hands should always [...]

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