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Submitted by Stuart, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
What is it?
Double or nothing (DoN) tournament, although they have been around for a long time, are becoming more popular as compared to regular Sit N go tournaments. In short, a DoN tournament is a Single Table Tournament (STT), usually 10 players. The payout structure makes it "Double or Nothing". If you are playing a Double or nothing tournament, all you have to worry about is coming in 5th. All players who
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Submitted by Adam, this article belongs to the Poker Tournament series.
Online multi-table tournaments can be the most profitable games for new players. Becoming increasingly popular, these type of games provides the easiest and fastest means of making a ton of money in poker for minimal risk. PokerStars recent record breaking tournament for example gave $50,000 to the winner of an event costing only $1 to buy into.
The problem with new players succeeding in tournaments is that they don’t
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Yesterday I won a 400 player 6$ buyin tournament on Party Poker. Nothing big I know, but it was my first win of the year and I have been struggling, to say the least, to achieve it.
So how did I do it?
I stayed out of trouble by mostly playing solid hands. When I stole the blinds, I did it with playable hands and small bets. I picked up many pots by making small probe bets on flops when I was up against 2 or 3 opponents.
I won when I got my chips in as favorite.
The big stack knocked out
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If you've been following my "I hate bad beats" page on Facebook lately, you'll know that I have been suffering a (in my mind) pretty serious onslaught of suck-outs in December. Here's a short summary:
Tournament bust-out: PokerStars 20$ 20000$ guranteed. I raise preflop with AK. Table donk reraises, I push and he calls with K4 off suit. Flop 567, turn 2, river 4.
Tournament bust-out: AA vs 99 and 55, turn was a 9
SNG bust-out: AA vs KK, QQ vs 77
Tournament bust-out: Nut flush on turn loses
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I found this list on a Danish poker site and liked it because many of the movies were new to me.
Queen High (1930)
Two women own a garden centre and have a hard time agreeing on pretty much everything. They ask their lawyer for advice when they want to go their separate ways and he suggests a game of poker. The loser agrees to wait on the winner for an entire year. A supposedly very entertaining movie
Sunset Trail (1939)
A classical good against evil movie. Hopalong Cassidy is the hero
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This article belongs to the Poker Tools series
Since amateur poker players started showing up to live tournaments and winning millions of dollars by taking down the so-called professionals of the sport, the online poker industry has literally exploded. Millions of people from across the globe are looking to hone their craft and win some big bucks by playing games like Texas Hold’em and Omaha. And they’re all looking for that proverbial edge to make winning easier.
Enter Poker Tracker.
Poker
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This article belongs to the Poker Tools series
Introduction to the GrinderSchool low stakes poker school
Grinderschool Poker Training helps small and micro stakes players crush cash games, SNGs and MTTs. At Grinderschool, a team of skilled poker enthusiasts/professionals create daily poker strategy videos and weekly poker podcasts dedicated to small stakes poker strategy. Grinderschool's focus on low stakes poker strategy, combined with low membership rates, makes them the best
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Video poker is usually played on slot machines and since its introduction in the 1970's, videopoker has become the most popular form of slot machine worldwide.
Videopoker is basically man against machine. You start by choosing the game you want to play and then choose the size of your bet. Usually videopoker machines are coin operated with an allowed bet size of one to five coins.
After you have put your money in the videopoker machine it will deal you 5 cards and give you the option of keeping
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I have started a stake deal with my good friend Artur. The deal is that I provide a starting bankroll of 2000$ and when he reaches 5000$ I receive 3000$. I have chosen to see the deal as a bet where I get odds 1.5 on my stake. Since I think the probability of success is more than 67% the EV on my bet is above 1. If you are a gambler you always take bets with an EV over 1
Here are some more details:
Limits 0,5$/1$
The project will obviously stop when the bankroll hits 0$
I cannot pull
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Instead of bitching and whining over bad beats I thought I would start sharing the mistakes I make in tournaments. By doing so I hope to reduce the number of mistakes I make and channel my frustrations into writing blog posts which is way more constructive than punching my desk.
Although I am on an official big buy-in tournament break I still play the tournaments in my Poker tournament league. Today was a 2000$ guaranteed 6$ buy-in turbo 6 max tournament on Power Poker.
I did quite well to
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