This article is not going to be highly analytical but is still interesting. A very common topic among online poker players is whether the software is cheating or not? The players who lose tend to say the program cheats because they want to keep the beginner players in the game. The professionals say it...
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The 2012 WSOP has reached its half time.
Timothy Adams won the most money with $790 879. He cashed in 3 times and won 1 gold bracelet (Event 28, $392 476).
Jesse Martin and Terrence Chan have the most cashes. They cashed in 7 times each. Martin earned $118 902 and Chan $58 271. As you...
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For this reason I like to play at many tables at the same time. Although many tables can provide a lot of action it is still not enough for me. I like to play many different types of poker. And sometimes the high quantity of tables definitely decreases the quality of my play.
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There are certain situations when you do not have a monster hand but you still want to make the pot larger preflop. Your goal is to win a larger pot if your hand hits and for this reason you make a small or medium preflop raise. The great opportunity this hand provides is that...
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Most poker players have heard about the squeeze play but some of them do not know what it exactly means, in which situations they can use it. This time I will introduce this tricky play where your analytical skills play the most important role.
Squeeze play happens when someone raises, another player calls and you...
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There are some games which are too high stakes even for the top poker players, like Gus Hansen. If you visit the high stakes Casinos in Macau, you will not only find the best poker professionals of the world but the very rich Asian businessmen, too. Hansen started his trip with a great winning...
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If you were a fan for Rush Poker at FullTilt then you have to try Zoom Poker at PokerStars. It is basically the same concept and the same game with the same rules. It runs under a different name. After the success of Rush Poker, PokerStars decided to have the same kind of game...
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Negreanu is the first poker pro who made a quite harsh statement against Full Tilt Poker (mainly against Bitar, Ferguson and Lederer). Negreanu posted a video where he talks about how much he is against the three players/owners of Full Tilt and he wishes that all three of them ended up in prison.
I find...
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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...
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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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