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November Nine: Does Winning During the Break Equal Main Event Champion?
09-30-2011, Emilis Pakenas
2011 WSOP November Niner Matt Giannetti won the World Poker Tour Malta Main Event collecting a cash prize of $276,457. The poker media quickly grabbed the story and did the calculations of whether such success during the World Series of Poker break...
Will the Epic Poker League be Dealt a Winning Hand or Bust Out?
08-17-2011, PokerHack
The Epic Poker League (EPL) kicked off its inaugural season at The Palms in Las Vegas and the Main Event wrapped up last weekend with Chino Rheem defeating Erik Seidel heads up for the impressive $1 million first place prize. The event set the...
Poker Plus: Did the Epic Poker League Get Rheemed?
08-15-2011, PokerHack
The inaugural Epic Poker League held their $20,000 Main Event last week at the Palms in Las Vegas with 137 of some of the best poker players in the world on hand to battle for the million dollar first place prize. But when the smoke cleared early...
Poker Plus: Love and Poker – A Controversial Mix
08-10-2011, PokerHack
Love is a many splendored thing – but not usually at the poker table. In card rooms around the world at various times you see boyfriends and girlfriends or husbands and wives sitting at the tables, but usually not at the same table. It is seldom...
Poker Plus: Show Me My Money
07-14-2011, PokerHack
It will be three months this week since the doom and gloom of Black Friday hit online poker players. On April 15th thousands of players were shut out of playing online but that wasn’t their main concern – they wanted to know how to cash out. The...
Poker Plus: Jonathan Epstein; No Win by Playing Ladies Event
07-05-2011, PokerHack
The 2011 Ladies World Poker Championship WSOP event is now over. But just like last year, the controversy continues, thanks to a few attention seeking males who have yet to understand the event is not about segregation or discrimination. It is a...
Poker Plus: CA Poker Players Need to Oust Feinstein
06-18-2011, PokerHack
Being a poker player, I hate the UIGEA, Black Friday, and every other incident that has happened to take away my right to play online poker. Wanting to protest our government’s interference in my right to the freedom of choice to play poker, I have...
Poker Plus: Rebelling Against Online Poker Prohibition
05-11-2011, PokerHack
Poker players WILL play poker, no matter how hard the government or anyone else tries to keep them from doing so. And so it is with all of us who live in America: Where there is a will there is a way – and we will find it. The Volstead Act Our...
Poker Plus: Online Poker Economics
04-29-2011, PokerHack
By now, unless they are cave dwellers with no media access or internet, every poker player on the planet has heard of ‘Black Friday’ and what it means to players in the USA. But what exactly does it mean to us who are fortunate enough to live in...
Grinding Online - Low Limit Hi/Lo Stud
03-28-2011, ClearSpine
Back in my college days, long before the Internet was a gleam in Al Gore’s eye, the game of choice at our all-night poker games was 7 Card hi/lo stud. The game was played where the final rounds of betting included a declaring phase, where you...
Online Poker Etiquette
03-26-2011, Craig Cunningham
Most of us play poker online, staring at one or two computer screens, mouse in hand. Hidden from other players, some people transform into ranting and raging lunatics. In this fuzzy, virtual world, are there rules of engagement and etiquette that...
Introduction to Casino Poker
03-24-2011, Linda R. Geenen
If you have never played poker in a casino before, or even sat at the table with friends, you may wonder what/how you get started and what you need to know. This little intro is a crash course for a few of the games and limits. The list person or...
Poker Plus - Analyzation
03-19-2011, PokerHack
The correct spelling for pluralizing analyze is wrong of course but for poker context it seems to fit. A good way to improve your poker game is to analyze your hands and how you played those hands. This can best be accomplished by getting hand...
Grinding Online - Multi-Table Turbos
03-18-2011, ClearSpine
One of my favorite formats to play online is the multi-table sit n go turbo tournament. While most normal tourney structures require a time commitment of a minimum of three hours and usually more, the faster blind structure of the sit n go...
Grinding Online - Bankroll Management
03-11-2011, ClearSpine
As I mentioned in the first article in this series, Grinding Online, my first foray into online poker ended badly due to my lack of understanding of bankroll management. I was playing far above the limits that my money warranted, and despite...
Grinding Online - 8-Game and Badugi on PokerStars
03-09-2011, ClearSpine
Hey kids! Have you checked out these games at PokerStars? PokerStars both ring games and tournaments in 8-game (HORSE plus limit triple draw 2-7, no limit holdem and pot limit Omaha) and Badugi. What’s Badugi? It’s another triple draw...
Poker Plus - Why Do You Play Poker?
03-04-2011, PokerHack
If you play poker, it is almost a given that someone has asked you this question. It is also a good bet that the person asking the question was not a poker player. Thanks to the poker boom on television, the non-poker population has mostly...
Grinding Online - PokerStars 18-Player $6.50 Turbo NLH SNGs
02-27-2011, ClearSpine
Large, multi-table online tournaments can be an extremely frustrating experience for even the most seasoned of poker players. You need to be able to survive lots of landmines just to make the money, and once you’ve done that, you must continue...
Grinding Online - The Craziest Sit ‘N Go
02-25-2011, ClearSpine
Of all the words I dread seeing in an online poker chat box, the three that drive me the most crazy are, “I’ve gotta go.” When someone types those in, you know that you are in for a barrage of all-in bets that will completely skew the results...
Poker Plus - How Do They Do It?
02-23-2011, PokerHack
The more poker I play online, the more I speculate about my opponents. Not where they are from or what their lives are like, but how they can continue to be able to play. By being able to play - I mean financially. Unless you have been living on...