Archive for November, 2008

5 Rules For Playing Casino Poker So You Don’t Look Like An Idiot

unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
by Ashley Adams
Casinos welcome new players. They need you.
You’re a home game poker player. Or maybe you’ve never played anywhere but online. Regardless, you’ve decided to visit the nearby poker room and play there.
Or maybe you’ve played a little a while ago, felt [...]

Online Poker: Notes & Visual Aids for Optimum Game Selection

poker.guide@about.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Table (Opponent) selection is HUGE in poker. While everyone I talk to “knows” this (pff), I see players exercise horrid table selection on a consistent basis. I am appalled (although you’d think at 26 years old I’d be numb to other people’s love of idiocy) [...]

Heads Up Limit Hold’em (HULHE)

Mac Poker Online wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Well, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday traffic on the poker sites as much as I am. I am especially enjoying the huge surge in traffic that came along with the Absolute Poker + Ultimatebet merge… wow. I wonder [...]

Packpoker

unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
I’ve started a weblog about poker. It’s meant to be a place where amateur players can share their wins, beats & bluffs in an effort to learn from each other and better our game. Check it out & share some of your stories:
http://packpoker.wordpress.com
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Basic Poker On-The-Turn Strategy

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Your basic strategy on-the-turn-strategy should include: betting or checking with the intention of raising, when you’re sure you have the best hand.
Making it expensive for opponents who hold lesser hands, or who are on the come, to draw out on you. Seeing the river as [...]

Smart Poker Behavior - Improve or Not Improve

tk wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Most of the time you won’t even see the turn. You’ll have thrown away most of your hands before the flop, and mucked others once you saw the flop did not fit it. You need a valid reason for seeing the turn.
It’s very easy to [...]

More about Poker Flops

AzPN Editor wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Terrific Flops
Flopping a set or top two pair with a safe board is a flop you’ll like. But make sure the board is safe before you slow play these hands. If you have A-Q and the flop contains A-Q-4 of mixed suits, there really [...]

DSteele02-The Person

admin wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
Birthplace:  Ridgecrest, California
Date of birth:  June 1st, 1984
My childhood was great.  My parents where great.  Everything was great.  Still, at around the age of 16 I began to experiment with drugs and alcohol, and by age 18 I barely had a waking moment when [...]

Value of Flop in Poker

Fonzi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
The flop is hold’em’s defining moment. Beyond any doubt it is crucially important to realize that hold’em is a very front-loaded game. When you see the flop in hold’em, you’re looking at five-sevenths of your hand. That’s 71 percent of your hand, and the cost [...]

Full tilt poker review

M. Wade Nichols wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt
The variations of poker provided at Full Tilt Poker consists of Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo, Five-Card Draw, Razz and many other mixed variants. The betting structure offered by this site consists of No-Limit, Pot-Limit, Fixed-Limit, Full-table games, [...]