Poker Articles
This article belongs to the Poker Articles series.
I was approached the other day by my good friend MaddyUK who wanted to discuss a possible online poker stake deal. Maddy has previously grinded 1/2$ shorthanded cash games with good success and I know him to be an extremely disciplined player so obviously I was interested to hear what he had to say.
Turns out he is highly motivated to get back in the game but hasn't started due to a lack of necessary funds to start up an online poker bankroll.
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Bankroll Building, Poker Projects
Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
“…so I got my full house on the turn and the guy gets an 8 of diamonds on the river for the straight flush and beats me.”
How many bad beat stories have you heard? Hang around a poker room for a night and you’ll hear plenty. They will be offered to you. You don’t have to ask to hear them. As poker players, we remember those bad beats vividly. We remember the suit and rank of every street,
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker and Life, Poker Articles, Poker Strategy
This article belongs to the Poker Tools series
Introduction to the Pokerlistings.com website
Almost every online site about poker, from the smallest blogs to the biggest online poker guides, is involved with affiliated promotional deals in one way or another. Affiliation deals are one of the primary ways of converting online traffic to an income. Basically, online sites selling a product or offering a service will pay other websites what's known as a CPA (Cost per Action) for each person
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Tools
Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Sports and Fantasy betting series
Alex Zelvin runs three websites. Fan Duel offers daily fantasy sports contests. Draftbug Millionaire tracks the progress of a group of fantasy baseball enthusiasts seeking to ‘go pro’ as fantasy sports players. The Waiver Wire contains general fantasy baseball advice.
This is the first in a series of articles on winning at daily fantasy baseball contests. For those who aren’t familiar with them,
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting
Submitted by Vic Porcelli, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Poker is a game of information. To borrow a phrase from 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event champ, Tom McEvoy, “…Poker is not a card game with people, it is a people game with cards.” So how do we gather information about our opponents? The first thing to learn is to not over think it.
Let’s look at information that is a little less intricate than observing how your opponent breathes after he makes
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament
Fantasy betting is a big deal in the US, but not so much in Europe yet (most likely because sports betting is not illegal in Europe). I like the community aspect of fantasy betting so much that I decided to devote a page on the pokerbankrollblog entirely to Sports and Fantasy betting. Hope you enjoy the first article about fantasy betting, submitted by Alex.
Many statistically minded sports fans are tempted to try their hand at sports betting. After all, with a solid understanding of Sabermetrics,
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting
Submitted by Dungbeetle, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
I find consolation in the fact that other and better tournament players also experience unbelievable misfortune. On a positive note it looks like Dungbeetle's 2009 results are coming around.
Sigh...
Just remembered why online tournaments are one of the most frustrating inventions in history. I was flying in the Pokerstars $50 rebuy, being chip leader from about 100 runners out till about 30 left. With 15 left I
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Tournament
This article is a part of the Poker Mathematics series.
Recently I have wondered if it is possible to calculate the probability of winning a poker tournament based on which strategy you use and how your all in moves are distributed. During the process of collecting data to solve this problem I have run into some interesting observations which I would like to share with you.
Check out the previous post in this series: Online poker tournament statistics: player exit percentage
Having discovered
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Mathematics, Poker Tools
Submitted by Matt Gai this article belongs to the Poker Project series
Free web-based service for turning your home poker game into an enterprising partnership with your friends
This article explains the history, features and strategy behind pokerteambankroll.com
The idea was spawned as my friend and I were talking during a car ride down to Atlantic City for a poker tournament over a year ago. He said to me, "We should get everyone in our home game to pool our money together so we can play
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Projects, Poker Tools
Submitted by Cody Kirshner this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series
Have you been playing tournaments that you wish you could do better in, or you are doing well and then all of a sudden have a “blow up”? We all feel that way from time to time, and even the best of us will make a misread and loose all of our chips, but that is the nature of tournament poker. Every decision that you make in tournament poker could be the hand that can cost you the tournament. So I decided to
Read more [...]
Tags: Poker Articles, Poker Strategy, Poker Tournament