February 4, 2012

Basic No Limit Poker Strategy

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Newbs take note, before you head over to the big folks game at Full Tilt Poker, Stars, or a live game – Turn off the ADHD and read a few a solid poker strategy articles. Your ego AND your poker bankroll will thank you for it later. Just because you’ve seen Gus bluff two blokes [...]

Building a poker bankroll

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The toughest thing for most casual poker players to manage and maintain is their poker bankroll. If you’re reading this and you’ve played real money poker online at some time in your life, you’ve likely had difficulties in managing your bankroll. It’s not an insult, it’s reality for 99.9% of online poker players and it’s [...]

Carbon Poker Announces an Attractive Promotion Offering 2x VIP Points

Carbon Poker is running an attractive promotion this November. The promotion, called 2x VIP Points allows players to earn double VIP points. The promotion is offered on Mondays and Tuesdays of every week. Qualification Criteria to Avail the Promotion The promotion is available to Carbon Poker players throughout November. Players have to opt-in to the [...]

Choosing the Right MTT

When you first login to an online poker site and click tournament, you will be greeted with a lot of options, the first of which is the price which you have to pay to play. This will range from a measly 10 cents on some sites, up to the thousands on others. The idea here [...]

Drunk Poker

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Let me clarify very quickly – Drunk Poker isn’t a variant of No Limit Holdem, or any other poker game for that matter. We’re talking about playing while under the influence of alcohol. If you’re the type to partake in a little partying during the weekend and drink a little of the tipsy juice, make [...]

Guide To Multi-Tabling No Limit Holdem Games

Competent poker players can significantly improve their hourly rates by playing several tables of online poker at once. To many new players, the thought of following the action on 4, 8 or even more tables can seem hard. However, with the right approach, setup and some adjustments to your strategy – multi-tabling can be one [...]

Leveraging AI to increase your win rate

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AI = Artificial Intelligence It may be against house rules at almost every live casino on the face of the earth to use an electronic aid to win games but on the Internet, it’s the Wild Wild West. Other than a few programs which are banned at big sites such as PokerStars, there is a [...]

Rush Poker at Full Tilt Strategy – Andy Bloch’s view

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In a recent interview with Poker News Daily regarding the new offering from Full Tilt Poker, Rush Poker – Andy Bloch shared his observations regarding the game. Some points were very valid but in some cases, I feel there’s holes in his theory. Let’s break it down: Dan Cyprus asked several great questions regarding how [...]

Rush Poker Tournament Strategy

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  Full Tilt Poker now offers Rush Poker Tournaments to compliment their already hyper-successful offering of the cash game variety. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it basically takes the waiting out of the game. In a standard poker game or tournament you have to wait a few minutes for the next hand (assuming [...]

Rush Poker Tournaments Top 10 Tips

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  Several months ago, I wrote about Full Tilt Poker and (at that time) a relatively new spin on their Rush Poker game. Pretty simple equation – take the Rush concept and apply it to tournaments. Based on the traffic that I now get on this site just from people searching Google for “Rush Poker [...]

Short stack poker

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In almost every type of poker game or tournament that you will buy into, there’s three types of “stacks” (the number of chips one has in front of them). Yes, tournaments start out with equal stacks but that changes quickly. So let’s pretend we’re halfway through a big tournament or cash game and consider our [...]

Slowplaying In Texas Holdem Poker Games

Slowplaying in Texas Holdem involves checking or calling with a strong hand to disguise it’s strength, with the intention of winning more cash on later betting rounds. This is often considered the opposite of bluffing. While this is one of the first ‘moves’ many Texas Holdem players learn, it is often executed badly or at [...]

Tilt Free Poker – Filtering noise at the poker table

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Noise is one of those constants in life we just learn to deal with. In almost every nook and cranny of the earth, there’s some sort of noise being generated. It may be birds or the ocean gently lapping at the sandy shore. It may be a jackhammer making quick work of decades-old asphalt in [...]

When to move up stakes in No Limit Holdem

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Playing poker is about maximising profits, but along with this you should always be trying to move up the stakes as quickly as possible.  The reason it is your interest to move up the stakes quickly is because the additional profits you make when you move up a level is extremely disproportional to how much [...]