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Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Sports and Fantasy betting series.
Alex is a fantasy betting expert (compared to me at least) who has recently joined forces with one of the top fantasy betting sites, namely FanDuel. Alex has been kind enough to write some general sports and fantasy betting articles.
In fantasy betting your opponents are other sports bettors and the format resembles the SNG (Sit and Go) and MTT (Multi Table Tournament) formats found on poker sites. Briefly,
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Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Sports and Fantasy betting series.
Alex is a fantasy betting expert (compared to me at least) who has recently joined forces with one of the top fantasy betting sites, namely FanDuel. Alex has been kind enough to write some general sports and fantasy betting articles.
In fantasy betting your opponents are other sports bettors and the format resembles the SNG (Sit and Go) and MTT (Multi Table Tournament) formats found on poker sites.
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Tags: Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting
Submitted by Alex, this article belongs to the Sports and Fantasy betting series.
Alex is a fantasy betting expert (compared to me at least) who has recently joined forces with one of the top fantasy betting sites, namely FanDuel. Alex has been kind enough to write some general sports and fantasy betting articles.
In fantasy betting your opponents are other sports bettors and the format resembles the SNG (Sit and Go) and MTT (Multi Table Tournament) formats found on poker sites.
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Tags: Poker Articles, Sports and Fantasy betting
Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
Cory wrote this great article on how to deal with poker fish in order to maximize your winnings against them. Basically it's all about treating poker as your business and the poker fish as your customers. Great stuff Cory!!
A few of the biggest super stars in poker have made a name for themselves by insulting other players at the table during televised tournaments. Unfortunately the general public who gets in to poker
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
The thoughts behind folding in cash games are very different to folding in tournaments because of the missing element of the ever increasing blinds. In this article, Cory takes us through the basics thoughts behind folding in deep stack cash games.
Deep stacked cash games are all about post flop playing. You rarely need to play a huge pot pre-flop because your real money is made on the later betting rounds. Here’s an
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
Playing online poker makes certain things much easier than live poker. Anything from hand history data bases to game selection. To find good games on the internet, I just need to open my Full Tilt client and look at the tables for whatever stake I want to play, find the best average pot size with too many players going to the flop and get myself on the waiting list for that table. Live it’s just not that easy. Here
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker and Life series.
It's every poker players goal and dream to drag the million dollar pots in the biggest cash games or to be sitting at the final table of the World Series with the TV lights shining. While this is a cool goal and the dream is possible, you can't expect to go from novice player to big time winner all in one night, one year, or probably your entire lifetime. It is important to set goals for yourself in poker, but you want to
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
In small stakes games where I’m not bluffing a very large percentage of the time, I have three primary principles that determine whether and how much I should bet. Am I betting for value, to protect my hand, or am I controlling the size of the pot?
Most beginning players might hear something about protecting top pair on a flush draw flop and end up betting pot and a half to price out the flush draw. So they end up
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
Poker is a very emotionally challenging game. Perhaps more difficult than any other skill required to master on your way to becoming a winning player is control over your emotions. This could be because a winning player always has to keep two opposite emotions juxtaposed at the forefront of his or her mind. At any moment you have to be ready to unleash unbridled aggression while in the very next moment after taking a
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Submitted by Cory, this article belongs to the Poker Cash Games series.
Nearly every poker book has a wealth of information regarding solid pre-flop strategy. They have starting hand charts showing which hands to play and which to fold from each position and whole chapters on how to play each of these, when to call, raise, reraise etcetera. However, these same books often devote just a paragraph or two to how to bet the river. The problem is, in a hundred big blind cash game, the river bet
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