Poker strategy
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March 23, 2007
Too many players seem obsessed with their starting hands in Holdem. Yes A-A is a good starting hand but it is still just a starting hand. It is possible, although improbable, that the five cards on the board make a better hand, without the help of one of your aces. (Good starting hand standards are the basis for any successful poker strategy, but you still need to make a hand with the board.) In fact in some ways, that pocket pair of bullets can be a bad hand; and the more players in the pot, the "badder" it can become.
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June 25, 2009
The argument for multi-tabling is that you'll earn so many more bets per hour. You can get more value for your time that way.I'm beginning to wonder.I've got $28 in a .10/.25 Pot-Limit Omaha game, and I've got 3[d] - Q[h] - 3[h] - 7[h] in the small blind. We're nine-handed on PokerStars.A player with almost $80 in front of him calls, the button calls and it's to me. I've got a trash hand, but I can't resist calling the .15 and seeing a flop. I honestly probably do that way too much, as I can't really hit anything here that would make me especially happy.
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May 27, 2009
About six months ago, I spoke about Badugi as part of an article on new games that had been added on PokerStars. As time has gone on, I’ve found myself continuing to be drawn to the Badugi cash games, and they have been a nice source of profit for me during the past half-year. Here are some of the things I’ve observed that keep me coming back to Badugi time and time again.First, there are still a lot of players there who don’t really understand the game very well.
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June 22, 2007
Now, let's put the foregoing to use in constructing a bankroll plan. How should you proceed? First, you should begin by determining your own salary or wage. If you are playing indefinitely, then you'll need a yearly amount you want to earn. If you are playing for only a few months, then set a total for those months. For example, you might set a yearly goal of $30K.Second, you will need to determine how many hours per day or per week you want to spend playing poker. Let's say you want to spend 30 hours per week.
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September 19, 2007
In his article Heads Up , Tony Bromham addresses the special circumstances involved when playing Heads Up, and suggests that aggression is the only successful style. A player simply cannot be tight and wait for the good cards to come. The consistent HU winners do not abandon pots simply because they have bad cards. To win consistently HU, you must pick up the orphan pots, when neither of you have a hand. If you do not bet or raise, you can only win by showing down the best hand. Winning HU poker can be summed up in one of two words, BET or RAISE.
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December 30, 2008
It's Not All About The Cards In every poker tournament, there are different stages that require different tactical approaches. In this article, I am going to discuss these stages and a few ideas on how to approach them.Early StagesThis should be the stage of the tournament where you do the most limping/calling of raises/playing of marginal/speculative hands. Why? Well because the cost relative to the percentage of your stack. For example, 8-7s for a 3x BB raise in the first couple of levels will usually be a small percentage of your stack.
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August 30, 2008
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 seven-card hi/lo stud. The game was played where the final rounds of betting included a declaring phase, where you would hold one, two or three chips in your hand, indicating your desire to go after the low hand, the high hand, or both ways, fondly known as “the pig”. Any low hand qualified, as long as it was the lowest hand at the table, and, if you were trying to win the entire pot, you had to win both hands, or else you won nothing at all.
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