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1. Grinding Online - Why Duplicate Poker Didn’t Work - When I was in college, I was a tournament duplicate bridge player. If you have ever played bridge, you know how frustrating it can be to sit for hours at a time getting horrendous cards, and watching your opponents rack up game after game. Sound familiar
2. PokerWorks 1st H.O.R.S.E. Tournament Results - As clearspine reflected after being knocked out of the tournament, "I'm sure Dr. Pauly will be blogging the final results. I'll pick them up there." Much to everyone’s disappointment, I’ll be reporting the events after the fact. Dr. Pauly is welcome to
3. A Review of Ghosts at the Table - The history of poker is filled with legendary stories and characters that have lent the game its unique flavor. Names such as Wild Bill Hickock, Puggy Pearson, and Stuey Ungar immediately evoke images of the game’s past, and allow us to see how the curre
4. A Review of Gus Hansen’s Every Hand Revealed - I vividly remember the first time I saw Gus Hansen play poker. It was the final table of a World Poker Tour tournament televised on the Travel Channel, and I sat in wonder at this apparent maniac raising under the gun with hands like J-4 offsuit. Hansen
5. A Review of Farha on Omaha - Sam Farha is considered to be one of the best Omaha players in the world. He won both of his World Series of Poker bracelets in the game, one in pot limit Omaha high-only, and the other in Omaha High-Low Eight-or-Better.
6. A Review of Daniel Negreanu’s Power Hold’em Strategy - Daniel Negreanu is, arguably, the most popular player in poker. His buoyant personality and uncanny ability to read his opponent’s hands has been featured in World Series of Poker coverage, on World Poker Tour telecasts and on High Stakes Poker, where
7. Harrington on Cash Games: Volume II - The second volume of Harrington and Robertie’s cash game set picks up right where the first book leaves off, with play on the turn and river. As readers have come to expect from these two superb analysts, the thinking process that goes into every aspec
8. A Review of Harrington on Cash Games, Volume I - It is generally agreed that former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Dan Harrington raised the bar for books on tournament poker with his three-volume, Harrington on Hold’Em series. Now, he and co-author Bill Robertie are back, and trying to do

Poker Strategy

1. Grinding Online - 8-Game and Badugi on Poker Stars - Hey kids! There’s a new game in town, or rather, there are two new games in town at PokerStars. Yes, PokerStars has introduced both ring games and tournaments in 8-game (HORSE plus limit triple draw 2-7, no limit hold’em and pot limit Omaha) and badugi.
2. Grinding Online - When Ego Gets in the Way - What kind of player do you consider yourself? By that I mean what stakes do you think of yourself as playing, either live or online? Are you a “big tournament” player? A 100-200 no limit player? One of the “big game” players at the Bellagio? A $.50-$1
3. Grinding Online - Low Limit Hi/Lo Stud - 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 h
4. Grinding Online - Leaks - One of the most challenging aspects of building a bankroll online is honestly recognizing weaknesses in your game. Without being able to analyze properly what you do successfully and what you fail at, you will be stuck on an endless roller coaster of ups
5. Grinding Online - Multi-Table Turbos - One of my favorite formats to play online is the multi-table sit & 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 & go turbos allows
6. Grinding Online - Avoiding Tilt - This afternoon, I was playing in a no limit hold’em tournament, approaching the final table, where the top seven players cashed, when a short-stacked player caught a two-outer on the river to reduce my stack a bit. Two hands later, I was dealt A-A, and p
7. Grinding Online - Bankroll Management - It seems to me that there are two ways to approach poker. The first is strictly as a source of entertainment, where losing money is simply the equivalent of a night out at a ballgame or a nice dinner. As long as you can afford the money you are dropping
8. Grinding Online - The Million Dollar Turbo Takedown - One of the ways to build a bankroll online is by playing freerolls of various types. Some of them are truly free, where you just have to be quick enough to sign up before the tournament is full. Others require you to spend, not money, but the frequent pl
9. Grinding Online - The Tale of a Low-Level Player - My first exposure to online poker was a wild roller coaster ride. Tempted by a $600 matching bonus, and being a Mac user, I signed up for an account with Full Tilt, which at the time was the only platform that supported my computer.