Bankroll Builders

June 28th, 2010

Let’s remember how this whole thing started. Why I have a job writing articles like this one and why you are reading them. Why there is a row of colorful banners to your right, each of them offering an excellent cash bonus for signing up for an online poker account. Why last July, 6,494 souls [...]

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More common poker rule variations

June 25th, 2010

High-low split: the highest and lowest hands split the pot. Generally there is a qualifier for the low hand. For example, the low hand must have 5 cards with ranks of 8 or less. In most high-low games the usual rank of poker hands is observed, so that an unsuited broken straight (7-5-4-3-2) wins low [...]

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Bluff Attempt at EPT Grand Final With Lex Veldhuis

June 23rd, 2010

Lex Veldhuis has quite a reputation at the poker table, especially after an episode of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event aired with Veldhuis pulling off ballsy bluff after ballsy bluff. On Day 1B of the 2010 European Poker Tour Grand Final, his image came into play on a bluff attempt. Veldhuis talks [...]

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Three-Handed Tournament Strategy

June 21st, 2010

The following is a hand he played while three-handed in Event No. 34, a $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament. Players and Stack Sizes: Jonas Klausen – 3.685 million – Button James Taylor – 2.45 million – Small Blind Eric Baldwin – 3.345 million – Big Blind Blinds and Antes: 30,000-60,000 with a 5,000 ante First [...]

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Quick Tips for Beating

June 16th, 2010

It’s the dream of every poker player, amateur and professional alike: win the WSOP Main event, etch your name in poker history, and become a multi-millionaire almost overnight. In 2003 Chris Moneymaker did it. In 2004 Greg Raymer did it. Even better, both got their seats into the Main Event by winning a low buy-in [...]

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Ten-Minute Texas Hold’em Crash Course

June 14th, 2010

Heading to Vegas for the weekend? Looking to try your hand at the game you’ve seen so often on TV? Have no clue where to start? Here’s your 10 minute Texas Hold’em crash course. Every couple months or so I’ll have someone come up to me and tell me that they’re going to Vegas for [...]

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A Hand from the WSOP

June 10th, 2010

Amit Makhija played Event #16, a $5,000 no-limit hold’em event that started yesterday and by dinner break had one of the biggest chip stacks in the field due in large part to a hero call. He took a break from the tournament to discuss the hand with PokerNews. Fill us in on how you’d been [...]

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Adjusting Against Thinking Players

June 8th, 2010

Brett Richey is an accomplished cash-game player who frequents the live tournament circuit and was recently featured at the televised final table of the $25,000 North American Poker Tour High Roller Bounty Shootout on ESPN. With such a high buy-in, the field of players was stacked, to say the least. Richey talked to PokerNews about [...]

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Playing WSOP Event No. 3 the $1,000 NLH

June 7th, 2010

For professional tournament pros, the lower buy-in large-field no-limit hold’em tournaments can be quite the minefield, but to win, you must adjust. Vanessa Rousso talked to PokerNews about a hand in which she employed a modified strategy when playing Day 1A of Event 3 at the 2010 World Series of Poker, a $1,000 buy-in no-limit [...]

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Baccarat – Game tips

June 4th, 2010

Although Baccarat is a game of luck with player betting on Banco, Punto or Tie, there are always a few things to take care of, in order to play the game smartly. Baccarat Tips tell you the best way to avoid making any silly mistakes, while playing Baccarat. It is advisable that you play free [...]

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Razz Rules and Game Play

June 3rd, 2010

Razz is known as a “low” game, meaning you’re trying to make the lowest (or worst) hand possible. Because Razz is almost identical to Stud in all but a few ways, we won’t rehash the setup and rules for those variants here. Readers not familiar with the rules of 7 Card Stud should start with [...]

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Five Card Stud

June 2nd, 2010

Five Card Stud is played very similar to 7 Card Stud. The obvious difference is that each player receives; you guessed it, 5 cards. The first is dealt face down with the four following cards dealt face up Ante You like all other players must ante before any cards are dealt. The amount of the [...]

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