Poker Articles
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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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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