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 [...]
May 12 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
May 2 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Apr 18 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Apr 13 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Apr 6 2011 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Mar 29 2011 | Posted in
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Getting a large draw and short stacking somebody is a very exhilarating angle of poker. However the difficulty alot of players have playing draws properly is over valuing your implied odds. In No Limit Hold`em, you’re regularly playing draws and you should be knowledgeable of both kinds of odds, implied and immediate if you want [...]
Mar 10 2011 | Posted in
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Most players know that poker is a game of information. Or, rather, a game about incomplete information. Each player has a limited amount of information available to them and it is up to them to fill in the gaps of information in order to make the best decision possible on how to play. The only [...]
Nov 29 2010 | Posted in
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Bankroll management is one of the most important concepts required to be a successful poker player. Without proper bankroll management, it is almost certain that you will, at some point, go lose all of your money. There is nothing worse than completely busting out and the whole purpose of bankroll management is to prevent this [...]
Nov 22 2010 | Posted in
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One of the best things about starting to play Texas Hold’em online is the fact that you can start playing at very low stakes. There are a huge number of players at all hours of the day playing at the low stakes tables at almost every online poker room. As such, it isn’t difficult to [...]
Oct 28 2010 | Posted in
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