As www.HowToLearnPoker.net gets older, we, the authors find it important to develop our website to the wishes of our readers. We are happy to present our new feature, the Poker Tutorial Videos. You can check this section time to time to find new tutorial videos. There are videos to help you learn poker and at the same time there are other videos in which we introduce different poker sites (to help you make a decision if you decide to play poker). Reading is probably the best way to analyze and remember different hands, poker situations and percentile comparisons.
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In this article the focus is on the special cases when the call is reasonable. Small pairs and suited connectors. These hands play well if the players at the table have deep stacks and many of them have entered the pot. Small pairs and suited connectors will not hit the flop very often but when they do hit you can win a large pot.
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How can you decide if someone is a beginner or an advanced poker player? Is there any way of telling when you sit down to a table and you see the other players for the first time? We will find the answers to these questions with one easy fact: what the preferred play of your opponent is preflop. Before getting to the point I tell you some crucial facts to know. In No Limit Hold’em you should play about 18-20% of your hands.
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Many No-Limit Hold’em (NLH) players make the big mistake of starting to play Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) without realizing the differences between the games. I discuss these main differences and try to help you understand these main issues. One of the key differences is that players pay much attention to whether a game is No-Limit or Pot-Limit. This is a huge mistake. Preflop play there might be a difference because you cannot raise an unlimited amount in a Pot-Limit game. However on the flop there are very often such large pots in Pot-Limit games that the No-Limit factor loses its relevance.
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This time I make an exception with my article. We, at HowToLearnPoker.net focus on analyzing interesting poker hands and at the same time share very interesting poker news. As I said, this week is a bit of an exception because I write about the blog of Phil Galfond. Phil is one of the most known poker pros in the world. He started his own blog in January, 2012 and has already posted an article which got the interest of thousands of poker players. In the last years there have been some unethical issues in online poker and most players are aware of that. Unfortunately no one raised his voice for a change, until now! Phil wrote a very long article about what should be changed in online poker in his opinion.
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In this article I discuss some Hold’em Manager 2 (HM2) issues, however not the most common expressions like stealing blinds, the importance of position, 3bet percentage etc. I rather choose some interesting statistics which could improve your game but are normally not emphasized by other authors. The following paragraphs discuss these issues from HM2 and I suggest you make a conclusion and change your game accordingly.
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The American TV channel GSN does not broadcast High Stakes Poker (HSP) anymore because of financial problems. Black Friday was the last step to stop many Poker TV broadcasts. High Stakes Poker was one of the most known TV shows but it has been cancelled. Its last season was in 2011.
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Welcome to online poker source. Here we will try to give you information about : poker games. In gambling world poker is famous gambling game and loved by poker players. But before starting this game player should have full knowledge of poker game. It is not a tough game, anybody if he knows the basis of this game can play with sending some time on it.
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After Black Friday all players are waiting to get their money back from Absolute Poker (AP), Ultimate Bet (UB) and Full Tilt (FT). It seems that players on AP and UB can be more optimistic for a refund. Before getting too happy, the news is not so positive. It seems that all players will get back about 15-20 cents/$. It does not hurt much if someone has $20-30, however players with thousands of USD on their account will not be happy about the decision.
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Many might think if a poker site goes bankrupt then at least nothing unpleasant can happen to it in the future. Ultimate Bet (UB) is one more time in the top news of the poker world. About 3.5 million players suffer from UB’s data breach. The confidential data was posted on the Two Plus Two forum and was removed after 8 minutes. The following data were affected: email address, phone number, mailing address, name, login name, birth date, account balance etc.
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