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Understanding the Value of Position in Poker

In most competitive games including sports, position is critical to success. In baseball for example, the home team gets to bat last and this is seen as a big advantage. By batting last, the home team knows exactly how many runs that they need in order to win the game when they are in the [...]

Playing The Weak Ace

When playing Texas Hold’em, there are a nearly infinite number of hands that you can be dealt and some of those are better than others. Most of the time, it is fairly easy to decide what you want to do with your hand but for others, it is not quite so easy. One such set [...]

Turbo Sit-and-Go Strategy

For those of you who are not familiar with some of the more intense poker formats, the Super Turbo Sit-and-Go formant is one of the craziest. The Super Turbo SNG is a 9-player single table tournament with extremely short stacks and blinds that go up after only a few minutes. If you happen to play [...]

“Black Friday” Hits the Online Poker Industry as US Authorities Bring Down The House

As reported by the The Street, the founders of three of the largest online poker sites operating in the United States were indicted by federal authorities Friday with charges including: bank fraud, money laundering and charges for illegal gambling activities. The United States Attorney’s Office of Southern New York also filed a multi-billion dollar civil [...]

Hopes For Online Poker Regulation in Florida Die in the Senate

In January 2011 Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Wellington, filed HB 77, which proposed intrastate online poker for Florida, with horse and dog tracks offering portals to online poker rooms.  The state of Florida was to receive 10 percent of the revenues. But the companion bill, sponsored by Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, died in [...]

Using Fold Equity

Many of you may have heard the term fold equity being bandied about by experienced players and poker commentators but most people are unaware of what the concept actually is. You may be thinking that you would need a degree in finance to understand the term but it is actually quite understandable by most poker [...]

Folding an Overpair

One thing that seems to happen with far too much regularity is players willing to throw away their entire stack of chips on an overpair. Many players from novices to moderately successful players will overplay an overpair and will often end up with nothing but a short stack and tilting rage. What they do not [...]

How to Quickly Calculate Pot Odds and Pot Equity in Texas Holdem Poker

Whether you are a beginner or pro at playing poker you will quickly learn the better you are at math and by learning new tricks along the way the better your chances are of winning more often. Having the ability to quickly calculate pot odds and the pot equity can be imperative to how you [...]

$13 Million Seized in Money Laundering Case

In a New York federal court, more than 13 million dollars was forfeited by Ahmad Khawaja who is the owner of two payment processors, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems which both have ties to Pokerstars and was seized by federal authorities in June of last year. Based on information obtained through court documents, Pokerstars and [...]

The Future of Online Poker Games in US

Just when the pro-gambling part of the world were looking forward to the new legislation that was going to legalize intrastate poker in the US, a move considered by many the beginning of a new era in online gambling for the country, – the DOJ shut down the websites, frozen accounts and issued arrest warrants [...]

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ClarkRoweClarkRowe: #Fade RT @phil_hellmuth Been cold betting NFL, but here goes! NE -1 1st half considering betting NE -3 for game, and OVER 27 pts 1st half
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the_nekothe_neko: @phil_hellmuth Get crazy and go -7.5 for +200 and the Patriots.
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TweetPokerNewsTweetPokerNews: Any Super Bowl Tourneys going on? What State are you in? RT @phil_hellmuth: When I lived in Madison, Wis we had... http://t.co/hqC7vqdy
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the_nekothe_neko: RT @phil_hellmuth: Been cold betting NFL, but here goes! New England -1 in 1st half, considering betting NE -3 for game, and OVER 27 pts scored in 1st half
40 minutes ago from web
FloatingOctopusFloatingOctopus: @phil_hellmuth OVER 27 pts in first half? You will be lucky to see that in the whole game. Any other tips for my Phellmuth?
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TweetPokerNewsTweetPokerNews: RT @phil_hellmuth: Been cold betting NFL, but here goes! New England -1 in 1st half, considering betting NE -3 for game, and OVER 27 pts...
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JohnCT16JohnCT16: Bet the G-men for the game +3. @phil_hellmuth: Been cold betting NFL, but here goes!
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frank2982frank2982: @phil_hellmuth I don't think they are going to get too far over 27 points for the entire game, let alone the first half.
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