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Rebuy Poker Tournament Tips
In the average poker tournament, you are finished when your chips are all gone. This differs from rebuy poker tournaments, where you can buy back into an event after busting out, and add chips to your stack when the rebuy period is over with (normally one hour). That said, rebuy tournaments allow players to be…
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GPI Owner Alexandre Dreyfus only thinks Poker will get Bigger
Most experienced online poker players have come to accept the fact that the game is no longer filled with easy money. Nearly all players know at least a little poker strategy, and information is readily available with just a few clicks of the mouse. This being said, many people are doom and gloom about the…
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Forgetting Poker Strategy Basics at the Table
Many poker players strive to improve their game by reading articles, books and blogs, watching training videos, and even investing in coaching. But no matter how much time you put into learning poker strategy, it’s a given that you’re going to forget or overlook a basic concept at some point. One of the easiest strategy…
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Bankroll Management for Low Stakes Poker Tournament Players
We all know that big-time poker players get all of the attention since they’re spending major money to compete for huge tournament prize pools. But the truth is that the majority of the poker community is based in the low stakes world, where players are spending just $1 – $5 per buy-in. Many of these…
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Broke Dutch Boyd using Kickstarter to fund Poker Book
Just a few months ago, two-time WSOP champion Dutch Boyd was on Reddit.com talking about how he couldn’t find a regular job and was broke – despite earning over $2.1 million in live poker tournaments alone. Well little has changed since those days, but Boyd is trying to rectify the situation by writing a book.…
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Why Most People don’t succeed in Poker
Pretty much everybody starts out in poker with aspirations of being a successful player who makes lots of money. Interestingly enough, most people don’t even get close to this vision, and they can’t seem to figure out why either. The truth is that there are actually plenty of reasons why one doesn’t experience the level…
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Moving up Cash Game Stakes
The ultimate goal of online poker is to keep moving up stakes so that you can earn more profits in a shorter amount of time. Of course, this is easier said than done because as you move up in cash game limits, the competition gets collectively tougher. So if you’re going to do this successfully,…
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Why Tournament Players have Trouble with Cash Games
Most great poker players are able to go back and forth between cash games and tournaments without much difficulty. But the majority of tourney players aren’t great, which means they struggle when making the switch to ring games. And there are a host of reasons why certain grinders struggle to make money in cash play.…
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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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Looking over Blind Structures before playing Poker Tournaments
Beginning poker players often wonder how they should play tournaments in regard to the early, middle and late stages. And the general answer to these questions often revolves around a typical strategy: play tight in the beginning, open up during the middle to combat rising blinds, and be even more aggressive as the tourney gets…