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Are there ways to turn the social aspect of online Poker into advantages, even potential ways to grab bigger pots? Knowing how to manage your social tools and online presence as a player may just be the edge you were looking for to step up your game. But it depends what kind of player you are, as we shall see.
Let’s start taking a look at these new social twists thrown into the classic card game, to find out whether they might hold some secrets for players. Could social
networking prove to
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Look for frequency errors
In no limit Texas hold’em depending on the levels that you play, your opponents will make what are called “frequency errors”. This is partly what David Sklansky was referring to when he described his fundamental theorem of poker in his great book The Theory of Poker. In that book Sklansky underlined the importance of exploiting mistakes and reducing the number of mistakes that you yourself make. The most common type of mistake and one that underpins everything that
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There is nothing as frustrating as seeing a rock take a pot from you when they show you the nuts and you called them down with nothing but two pair. You feel somewhat of a chump for calling down with such a weak hand. But this is exactly why watching your opponents very carefully is so important. In games like full ring then rocks thrive for one simple reason, this is because they can fold far more and still make money. Folding is what the rock loves but they love it even more when someone pays them
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Everywhere you look these days then there are poker coaches, poker websites and poker books and magazines all discussing no limit hold’em. But yet even as a full time player and writer then I am still not blinded to the fact that this form of poker is probably the most difficult of the lot for novice players to succeed at. In the final part of this series then I want to discuss variance and how this affects your mind set. I often hear how tournament poker has the worst variance out of all of the
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Following on from part 1 and in this article I want to discuss a very obvious but yet under-estimated part of no-limit hold’em. This is the fact that it is a two card game and not a four card or a six card game like at PLO. So what does this very obvious statement have to do with difficulty in playing the game?
Well only having two starting cards in your hand means one very important thing. It means that it is much more difficult to flop or to make a strong hand. Now you may say that
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Many people ask me as a full time player/writer and coach what the toughest aspect is about playing no limit hold’em? It is in actual fact the potential to put your stack at risk in any one individual hand and while everyone knows this, what they may not be aware of are the mechanics of just why this is the case. This will be the first part of a three part series explaining just why no limit hold’em cash games are just too tough to crack for many players.
Firstly you have the capacity to play
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Submitted by Cory, this article belong to the Poker Strategy series.
3 betting in poker by Cory the lead singer in corywilkinsband.com.
Poker goes through cycles and evolutions and the current state of no limit focuses a lot on pre-flop action. Whether it’s tournaments with short stacks and fast blinds, or four bet bluffing 300BBS deep in a cash game how you’re playing pre-flop, notice I said, “how,” not, “what,” is going to set up your story for the rest of the hand.
Right
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Strategy series.
Cory wrote the article below about running bad in poker....something I've experienced myself lately. If you have time check out his band’s website at corywilkinsband.com.
We’ve all been there before, it’s called running bad. What is running bad though? It’s actually a combination of a few things.
First, never picking up hands. Remember, in low stakes cash games your opponents are calling too much, so your goal
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to Poker Cash Games series.
This is the third article in series written by Cory on limit cash games and how lessons learned here can be applied in no limit cash games as well. If you haven't already read the previous articles in the series check them out here.
Top 10 limit poker cash game strategy tips
Top 10 poker strategy tips for limit cash games
So I can safely assume that after reading my last three articles you’ve learned the importance
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to Poker Cash Games series.
This is the second article in an article series where Cory sums up the top 10 most important limit poker cash game strategy tips. Enjoy! If you haven't read the first article yet, go to top 10 limit poker cash game strategy tips.
Tip #6. Counting all of your outs.
Most people when they have a draw only count outs to their primary draw. Since limit hold ‘em is based so much on the math, we’ll need to be a little
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