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Finding your Comfort Zone in Poker
One of the biggest debates in regard to poker strategy is whether to adopt a tight or aggressive style. Now successful players always advocate adopting what works best in the situation; for instance, on a table full of maniacs, playing tight and waiting for good hands works well. However, each individual player tends to lean…
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How do you win Poker Tournaments?
Now the title of this post might sound cheesy because there’s no simple way to win poker tournaments. But even with this being said, many beginning players wonder exactly how one goes about winning a bigger multi-table tournament. Now we can’t give you a step-by-step analysis of how to win a poker tournament, but here…
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Traits of Good Postflop Poker Players
For many beginning poker players, it’s hard enough to get comfortable with the various preflop situations that will arise. But when you add postflop play into the mix, it almost seems like an overload to some players. Of course, this is no excuse to neglect postflop play because it’s extremely important for those who want…
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Calculating ROI for Poker Tournaments
One very useful tool for measuring your success in poker tournaments is return on investment (ROI). The basic definition of ROI is how much money you’re earning back from your buy-ins. Unsuccessful players will have a negative ROI, while really good poker players will have positive ROI numbers, meaning that they’re profitable. So obviously it’s…
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Strategy for Late Registration Poker Tournaments
Some poker players contemplate whether or not it would be advantageous to purposely take advantage of the format offered in late registration poker tournaments. In other words, they consider the benefits of registering late for these tourneys rather than buying in on time. Benefits and Drawbacks to registering Late As for the perks to registering late for…
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How Long should you Play Poker?
One of the biggest mistakes that many online poker players make is extending a session too long. For example, if you start to lose concentration after two hours of playing and you keep going, you’ve played too much online poker. Now you may be wondering why somebody would keep playing when they’re no longer focusing…
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Full Tilt Poker seeking US Online Poker License
Proving that anything is possible, Full Tilt Poker reportedly has a very good chance to get a US online poker license if the game is ever legalized and regulated in America. Full Tilt’s lawyer Jeff Ifrah came out with this news after his dealings with Groupe Bernard Tapie and the US Department of Justice. He…
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Shoving Short Stacks in Poker Tournaments
When playing poker tournaments, we’d all love to have the cards fall into the right place, and not have our chip stacks in danger at any point. Unfortunately, this only happens to players in the rarest of circumstances, and the vast majority of the time, you’ll be dealing with a short stack at some point…
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Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier joins Triple Crown – wins Seven Card Stud Championship
While Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has become one of the best poker players of all-time, the one knock against him is that he hasn’t won a WSOP bracelet. However, this all changed when Grospellier won the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship at the 2011 WSOP. The Frenchman cruised through a 126-player field that included some incredible…