. PokerStars bought Full Tilt Poker and soon starts to pay back the funds of US players. Therefore PokerStars can use the name Full Tilt and all its assets. PokerStars pays $537 million to settle US government charges. The poker site first has to pay back the funds of US players ($547 million). There...
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Beginner poker players often start playing poker with play money instead of real money. I do not say you have to play with your salary because it is crazy and stupid, but playing with play money does not make any sense. Even if you do not know the poker rules it is ok to...
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Andy Bloch started his poker career more than 20 years ago and he won his first ever gold bracelet in the WSOP 2012, Event#7. The event had a $1 500 buy-in, 367 players and a $126 363 first price (besides the bracelet).
The final table had three well known players and Bloch had to play...
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As we have already written, nowadays the largest high stakes poker games can be found in Macau. Gus Hansen already tried his luck some weeks ago, and now the news are about Tom Dwan (“durrr”) who won a $3.8 million pot.
Since Black Friday and the bankruptcy of FullTiltPoker, Tom Dwan has been playing high...
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As we have already written about it, the first ever Super High Roller event in Europe was organized at the end of April in Monaco. Despite the expected 25-30 players, 38 participants started the 3-day event in order to take the glory at the end.
Justin Bonomo started the final table as the chip leader...
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At the end of April the EPT Grand Final starts in Monaco. The 1st event is going to be the first ever Super High Roller event in Europe. The €100 000 buy-in 3-days long NLH event starts on April 23rd. The event is also a rebuy tournament. The question is how many players have...
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When talking about the potential winners, Brian Rast should not be forgotten either. He was the only player who won more than one gold bracelet (Event #15 Pot-Limit Hold’em and Event #55 The Poker Player’s Championship) in 2012. Rast is definitely one of the best tournament players in the world and has the capability...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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