An old standby move of most Texas Holdem players is to attempt to steal the blinds through adept strategic maneuvering. The theory is that an advanced player can “steal the blind” by raising on the blind. The thought process behind this strategy is that most people will fold facing a large blind if they do [...]
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Stealing the Blinds: Pros
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Posted in Fun, Gambling Wheel, Life Of Games | Comments Off
Poker Gods
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009On just about any major poker broadcast, or at any live game you might take a seat in, there comes a time when the poker online player who is all in against a big draw will clasp his hands and look up and beg please please please for his hand to hold up. Some of [...]
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Amateur Mistakes
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Newcomers to the game of poker often fail to recognize its complexities. They learn the basic rules and poker online hand rankings, then only look at their cards and hope to get lucky. This type of thinking leads people to call when they should fold, and to miss obvious cues that [...]
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Playing Position
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009When the cards just aren’t coming to you in a poker tournament, it can be a frustrating place to sitthough often, in its employment, position can be more important than what you are dealt. By acting on appearance at the casino, by playing aggressively from positions of power, you can often [...]
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Basic Poker Theory
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009The basic theoretical strategy behind winning at poker is to bet when you are ahead and fold when you are behind at the casino. If everyone could follow this basic principle, acting with perfect knowledge of where you are in the hand at all times, no one would ever lose. Of [...]
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Poker Phishing: Your Email Enemy
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Yes, I know, if you are technologically savvy at all you know what phishing is. You’ve probably even encountered one or two phishing emails in your day. The problem now a days is that more and more phishing scams are related to online gambling and poker accounts. Phishers are getting sophisticated, [...]
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Poker Player Profiles: John Juanda
Thursday, December 18th, 2008One of the great things about watching John Juanda play pokern is his supreme ability to study a player intently in the moment and figure out completely just by subtleties how he should react. There is a lot of hype about ‘tells’ and ‘reads’ in poker, though a lot of the time, among the [...]
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Wasting a Good Poker Hand
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Great pocket cards-sometimes they are in abundance, and sometimes you have to wait all night for them. On really bad nights, they never come around. A good starting hand is not something to be taken lightly, since in No Limit Texas Holdem a single hand can turn an entire game around.
So [...]
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008Although some sweepstakes ask for a proof of purchase or UPC code, the sponsors must provide an alternate method of entry if they do so. 10 months ago a Belgium dutch online company took of a dutch online contests. It should be really great or fantastic to win 7906 euros. That will be great or [...]
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