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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There isn’t really an awful lot of point in identifying fish in any form of poker if you do not know how to take advantage of them once you find them. These days because of the availability of great pieces of software like PokerTracker then you can find easy players to beat more easily. To [...]
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Omaha Hi Lo can be a fun and lucrative game, but it can get tricky. The pot is split in half each hand. The player with the highest hand takes one half and the player with the lowest qualifying hand takes the other half. One player can win both halves if they play their cards [...]
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If I do double up early on with a premium hand, my strategy does not change. I am still playing like super rock only this time I am doing it with more chips and chips equals time in Texas Holdem SNG’s. I have time to wait a bit longer which means time to make hands, [...]
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When the first three players have folded then this is effectively a four handed game and I will raise with a fair percentage of my hands in this situation if I think that I can create a bigger pot against players who I have an edge over. But Pot Limit Omaha poker is a game [...]
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You simply cannot play a really aggressive game in full ring because you are behind too often and with each hand having six times the number of combinations of an Texas Holdem poker hand then the nuts will be out there in a full ring game quite often. But I like playing short handed Omaha [...]
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Poker strategies can be a very important part of locking yourself into a winning streak either online or offline at both professional and casual tables. The specific reasons for a particular strategy’s success can differ from strategy to strategy, however, as each strategy may employ different techniques in order to help you get and stay [...]
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The way that poker is promoted and marketed, it advertises BIG tournaments with BIG prize money to lure players into the game in the same way that the National Lottery attracts people to buy lottery tickets by making the jackpot well into seven figures. They know that if they spread the prize money more evenly [...]
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I call some raises with hands like 8-7 suited etc because I can bust premium hands with them DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF MY OPPONENTS STACK OF COURSE. Well I feel that there is something very important about making plays like this. Many professional poker players use what is called the 5-10 rule. This is [...]
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You will no doubt have read in numerous pieces of poker literature about what has become known as the standard raise in NL Texas Holdem. If it as been folded around to you in a $25-$50 NL Hold’em game then if you want to raise with a hand like AK then make it either 3 [...]
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