Last summer, I spent a couple of months in Las Vegas and there was one casino that I frequented their evening tournaments. It was a standard re-buy event for the first three levels and then it went to a freezeout. During the week, I played a relatively loose style, but once Friday and Saturday hit, [...]
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The continuation bet is a common tool used by Texas Hold’em players, especially in tournament play. Players using a continuation bet are trying to take down the pot on the flop without a lot of resistance. However, there are situations where you may want to lean towards checking as opposed to making a continuation bet. [...]
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In Texas Hold’em then you have certain weapons at your disposal and the basic weapons that you have are your chip stack, your cards and your position. We could also add a fourth weapon as well and this is your ability to be able to use those three weapons and to use them well. Let [...]
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When you make it to the money in a Texas Holdem SNG, what has happened is that 60% of the total prize money has now been allocated among the three of you because all three of you are guaranteed 20% and three lots of 20% equals 60%. So you are now playing for an extra [...]
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You see, you don’t have to do ANYTHING at all in order to get into contention. I played in a Texas Holdem SNG last week where it was down to five players remaining and I had yet to play a hand. Of course my stack had shrunk to about 700 but the fact of the [...]
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Following is a series of articles on what I consider to be a very effective strategy for playing single table sit’n’go’s at Texas Holdem poker up to and including $20 levels which is what I have played in. Like anything else, this is not the only style that gets the job done in these things [...]
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Hand 1: Game: Pot Limit Omaha Position: Cut-off In this first hand it has been folded around to me in the cut off. My hand is Kc-10s-9d-5h and I raise the pot to £20. Before we move on I feel that it is very important to mention here that short handed games of PLO play [...]
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The third part of this three part series concludes here and it has to be said that it does not make financial sense for everyone to know that you are a good poker player before you even sit down. Therefore it would be a very good idea to try and keep yourself off the site [...]
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Carrying on from part one and internet poker site A is an American site that is populated very heavily by US players obviously whilst site B is a European site populated by mainly Europeans. Site A offers a sign up bonus up to $1000 which is the largest on the net whereas site B offers [...]
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I have spoken with many people over the past few years who have or who are playing internet poker both face to face and on forums and through other avenues. One of the things that struck me and still does to a certain extent are the large number of people who buy into a poker [...]
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