Badugi is not one of the most known poker kinds; therefore it is easier for you to become a successful player. There is no written literature and relatively few strategy guides on the topic. When I write this article only a few poker rooms offer this kind of poker game. The game most likely...
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The online poker world was changed by Black Friday. Some sites increased their player base, such as the Merge Network, 888Poker or Bodog, while others show a main decrease like Fulltilt, PokerStars, Cereus Network, Cake Poker or Everest Poker. As you can read in the article most networks have their own problems, even those...
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Patrik Antonius makes an impression on everyone. Men like him, because of his great poker skills, and women find him the sexiest poker player of the world. I deal with the first statement in this article and analyze one of the most amazing poker hands I have ever seen. Probably there are less than...
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PokerStars has already paid back more than $100 million to its US players and is doing payment for future requests as well. PokerStars was the first to at least partly recover after the investigation and does its best to regain the trust of the players. Fulltilt will be probably the second on the list...
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The Player of the Year award (POY) was first introduced in 2004 at the WSOP. The player who accumulated the most points on the WSOP Events in the given year wins the award. Every cashed player accumulates points on all tournaments and at the end these points are summed up and the one with...
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CardRunners (one of the leading poker training and video sites) was hacked on May 10th 2011. As you can read on their website no financial or credit card information is in danger. However they are not sure whether the email addresses, encrypted passwords and IP addresses were compromised or not.
The site sent an email...
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Gutshot straights can win huge pots for you if you are aware of how to play them. Gutshots are typical holdings where math plays a big role and you really have to calculate pot odds to profit with it.
A gutshot straight draw (also known as inside straight draw) is a type of hand where...
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Those of you who want like to get rakeback on Merge but do not have an account yet, only have a limited time to get their rakeback. As you probably know, the Merge network has one of the highest rakeback payments with 35%. However the network announced that they will provide rakeback only for...
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First I ask some questions which I will answer later on to give you a full description about freeroll tournaments. To whom does it make sense to play freerolls? Why is it good for the poker rooms to provide freerolls for players? How does your strategy differ in a freeroll tournament from a normal...
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