The World of Professional Poker part three

Cash games are where the real CONSISTENT money is. I have been successful in poker and very successful at that simply because I refused to swallow the crap and went about it my own way and shunned trying to win a big tournament or getting on TV. You can earn a £100K playing cash games [...]

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The World of Professional Poker part two

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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The Perils of Slow Playing

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people slow play in poker in the belief that they are doing something smart. If checking monster poker hands always led to the maximum pay off then I can understand why people do it. But people see these types of play on television and think that [...]

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Starting tight in a low-stakes STT

A few years ago I wrote an e-book on SNG’s which primary practiced a time honoured strategy of playing very tightly during the early levels and then significantly increasing the level of aggression later on. As with all forms of poker and poker tournaments, well documented strategies become less and less effective the more people [...]

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How to Protect and Manage Your Bankroll

When you are playing poker and you are at a tournament, you should try and make sure that you protect and watch after your bankroll as much as you can. Not protecting the bankroll is a mistake made by many poker players, experienced and inexperienced alike. Hopefully after you read these tips, you will be [...]

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Tournament Chip Values

When you start playing in tournaments, you will quickly realize that whatever chips you played in the last hand won’t be worth as much with the next hand. Sometimes how much the chips are worth might be hard for you to understand,  but once you focus and really look at it, you will be able [...]

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Summary Of Single Table Tournament Strategies

The style of play that should be used in the middle stage of a single table tournament should be similar to that used in a ring game. The only exception to this strategy is that you should target weaker players and go after their chip stack first. Due to the fast pace of these single [...]

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