Poker Articles
Submitted by Bill Menschner, this article belongs to the Poker Bankroll Building series
There was a time when building your online poker bankroll was as easy as signing up to multiple poker sites. The sign up and monthly bonuses offered by many sites gave new players an overlay on the rake being charged at low limits. A new player could easily earn hundreds and even thousands of dollars in bonuses every month, enough to effectively build their bankroll and move up to higher stakes poker where
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Submitted by Kochan, this article is a part of the Poker Strategy series.
This was the question posed to me about a year ago. Take a random person in his/her twenties of average intelligence and turn that player into a winning poker player. Given time and experience could you teach this person to play exactly like you and succeed? My answer was yes. Why couldn’t I? There’s nothing inherently special about me that lends me to be winning poker player. Poker is not about natural ability,
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Submitted by Kochan, this article is a part of the Poker Tournament series.
So after barely playing since Monday I thought I would put in a solid MTT session on Saturday. Saturday’s really suck for online MTT’s because there are no special tournaments and the field sizes are at their smallest. So to combat boredom I thought I would just load up alot of tables including small buy in tournies I normally wouldn’t play.
Overall for the day I took a 2nd in the stars $27.50 and 2nd in
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Submitted by Markus, this article belongs to the Poker Pro series
I have always wondered why most poker dealers are poor poker players. Nothing seems to make a game better than a dealer who just finished working and then hops into the game. I don’t know if it is because they are tired from work but they always seem to play poorly and immediately start to gamble it up. You would think that a dealer would become a better player simply by watching all that poker while working. They certainly should
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Submitted by McTap, this article is a part of the Poker Strategy series.
In this article I will discuss what poker table image is and how to play accordingly. If you have not read the previous articles in this series, check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 at your convenience.
When it comes to table image, betting patterns and hands played dictate exactly how a person is portrayed at the table. Through everybody's image on the table you can better understand the action that has happened, and
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Submitted by Markus, this article belongs to the Poker Pro series
According to online poker trackers, Phil Ivey has been dominating the online poker scene at Full Tilt Poker, earning over $9 million in profits since January 2007. The impressive accomplishment in itself is pretty mind-boggling and captures the imagination of aspiring online poker players anywhere. Perhaps the most impressive fact of Ivey’s achievement is that he has done this across all forms of poker, not just one particular
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Submitted by Q, this article is a part of the Poker Tournament series.
Playing heads-up poker
What is the beauty and power of attraction of poker? Personally I think it is its many facets. In contradiction to other sports or games, every situation is unique and asks another approach. One of the most important factors which influence a specific situation is the amount of people that is involved in a hand. That's why it's informative to play some heads-up games for a change.
Till a few weeks
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Submitted by McTap, this article is a part of the Poker Strategy series.
In this article I will discuss your seat position at the table. If you have not read the previous articles in this series, check out Part 1 and Part 2 at your convenience.
Position of a player at the table depends on the position of the dealer button. This then leads to the fact that your position at the table is key since, in my opinion, the later you are to act, or closer to the dealer button you are, the more information
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This article is a part of the Poker Mathematics series.
This article is number 3 in a series of 3 articles covering the (in my opinion) most important mathematical aspects of poker:
Calculating pot odds: see Poker pot odds; all you need to know
Calculating poker probabilities: see Poker probabilities; all you need to know
Calculating expected value: see +EV poker; making the winning plays
Having explained how to calculate poker pot odds and poker probabilities in my two previous
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This article is a part of the Poker Mathematics series.
This article is number 2 in a series of 3 articles covering the (in my opinion) most important mathematical aspects of poker:
Calculating pot odds: see Poker pot odds; all you need to know
Calculating poker probabilities: see Poker probabilities; all you need to know
Calculating expected value: see +EV poker; making the winning plays
Calculating exact poker probabilities for each hand you play can be a complex mathematical operation
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