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Submitted by Houston Slim, this article is a part of the Poker Strategy series.
Has this ever happened to you?
“I went all-in with pocket aces and he called with pocket kings. Can you believe that lucky &^%$# caught a third king on the river?”
“I had the nut straight on the return and this *&^%$ idiot calls me down with a flush draw. Of course, he rivers his fifth spade. Why the &@^$ does this always happen to me?”
“Not only did that stupid @&%# call my obvious
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This article is a part of the Poker Mathematics series.
This article is number 1 in a planned 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
I have a feeling that many poker players, both experienced and beginners, could do with
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Submitted by Steve, this article is part of the Poker Bankroll Management series
Besides playing too many starting hands for their own good, online poker beginners usually commit another – extremely frequent – mistake: they play on bankrolls way too flimsy to support the limits on which they’re trying to make money. Playing under bankrolled can ruin an otherwise good player’s monthly revenue too, let alone that of a player who’s only just begun exploring the intricacies of the game.
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This article is a part of the Poker Strategy series.
One of the great aspects of online poker is the ability to play at multiple tables simultaneously. If you don’t believe me, try hopping from table to table on your next trip to your local casino or cardroom! In fact, many online pros credit multi-tabling as a key to their success, especially in no-limit and pot-limit cash games.
For the sake of illustration, let us assume that you can choose between two scenarios when you sit down
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Submitted by Steve, this article is a part of the Poker Tournament series.
Single Table Tournament Tips
If you're an online poker player who's ever started a bankroll from scratch, you know that the best way to pamper a sorry excuse for a bankroll to life is through single table tournaments also know as sit and goes or simply SNGs. SNGs offer great odds to individual players, and when somebody's goal is rather not to lose than to win a lot, they'll do the job wonderfully.
This is exactly
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No matter what your poker experience or skill level it is important to be reminded from time to time that every single action you make at the table, whether online or in person has a purpose. In this case, I am not talking about possible tells like how long you take to make a decision, how you put your chips in the pot or things like body language. Today I am focusing on the simpler things, betting, checking, raising, re-raising or check-raising.
My girlfriend played an interesting hand last week
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I just returned home from a so called "Gentlemen's weekend" with my girlfriend's dad and 15 of his friends who I have never met before. The "Gentlemen's weekend" has been an annual event since 1996 and this year I was invited. To the outside world the primary theme of the trip is fishing but in reality it is more of a social get-together with good food, a lot of alcohol and semi-high roller (at least on my budget) card games.
The weekend started with a boat fishing trip out at sea. For those
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Have you ever had to teach something to someone? It can be anything at all from how to tie your shoes or kick a soccer ball to how something in your car works or some complicated aspect of your business works? I think we’ve all been in that situation on some level or another but maybe we never thought of it as teaching or coaching. When we explain something that we have come to take for granted we are forced to think about it in a way that we normally wouldn’t, which is why I think that one of
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So my girlfriend was out of town visiting some of her friends for a birthday party. Having the place to myself I invited one of my good friends over for a weekend of poker. He arrived Friday evening at around quarter to nine and by nine o' clock we were playing in 4 big tournaments on two laptops:
A 150000$ Guaranteed 75$ rebuy on Titan Poker
A 35000$ Guaranteed 10$ rebuy on Titan Poker
A 10000£ Guaranteed 50£ buyin on Inter Poker
A 7000£ Guranteed 30£ buyin on Inter Poker
My friend
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According to the following chart on EV (estimated value), no matter where you are sitting at the table does pocket 2s have a positive EV. This means you will lose more money playing them, than you will ever win. So why do people play them?
For those how don't know, EV (estimated value) is the average of what you expect to make on any particular hand. It's important to note that EV and actual results will vary massively over any short term period. Once you have played enough hands (an infinite
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