More states are looking to make a push for online gambling in America lately and the outlook is starting to look much better. California, Nevada, New Jersey and Massachusetts have already got the ball rolling with Nevada being the first to pass a bill. Read more
If you are just starting out playing poker, multi-table tournaments (mtt’s) can be an easy transition to get the hang of how the game flows and all of its nuances. You can buy into one for as little as $0.01 and play enough hands to get your feet wet. The advent of online poker has caused the Mtt landscape to change however. Read more
The chances of being being dealt a pocket pair in Texas Hold ‘Em are approximately 6%. In other words, every 17 hands played will result in your hole cards showing some sort of pair. Obviously, the majority of those times you will be looking at a middle or low pocket pair and wondering the best way to play it. Read more
There are many hands in poker which players often overrate. This misperception of how strong certain hands are will cost them money over time. These hands often look pretty and perhaps that’s why we play them, but looks can be deceiving, (Britney spears for example). Read more
When playing in a poker tournament, you will often be confronted with the situation of whether or not you should defend your blind from a player who may be trying to steal. As a tournament progresses and the blind levels increase, stealing the blinds is often attempted because it can really add to a player’s stack of chips. Read more
There are many skills needed to succeed in poker, some will be easy to learn and others will take time. It’s important to add as many skills and moves to your poker arsenal as possible to keep opponents on their toes. Of the more advanced plays you can learn, “floating” will be a play that can become one of the most important to learn. Read more
When holding a large pocket pair that is higher than any of the cards revealed on the flop, you now have an overpair and in many situations will have the best hand and greatest pot equity at that stage of the hand. Read more
Perhaps one of the most under rated skills in poker is table selection. It is crucial to maximizing ones profit. Most players use card selection, tells and other pertinent skills to win money while playing poker, but sometimes finding a good game can be more profitable than being dealt pocket Aces every other hand. Read more
During the course of a tournament, it is imperative to increase your chip stack by stealing some blinds when you are acting in late position. As multi-table tournaments progress and the blinds increase, players are also required to post antes. Taking some of these pots without ever seeing a flop is a crucial element in going a long way in the tournament. Read more
In this weeks news update we look into what’s going on with Poker Stars and Full Tilt, give our comments on Isildur’s amazing back-to-back Scoop win and reveal the peculiar case of a group of Buddhist monks caught playing high stakes poker in South Korea. Read more
More states are looking to make a push for online gambling in America lately and the outlook is starting to look much better. California, Nevada, New Jersey and Massachusetts have already got the ball rolling with Nevada being the first to pass a bill. Read more
If you are just starting out playing poker, multi-table tournaments (mtt’s) can be an easy transition to get the hang of how the game flows and all of its nuances. You can buy into one for as little as $0.01 and play enough hands to get your feet wet. The advent of online poker has caused the Mtt landscape to change however. Read more
The chances of being being dealt a pocket pair in Texas Hold ‘Em are approximately 6%. In other words, every 17 hands played will result in your hole cards showing some sort of pair. Obviously, the majority of those times you will be looking at a middle or low pocket pair and wondering the best way to play it. Read more
Lots of people aren’t aware of the full Full Tilt story, knowing some bits and pieces about what’s happened, as well as perhaps rumours they’ve heard passed around. We decided to put together this piece to explain how Full Tilt begun, its meteoric rise to the huge online poker room it once was, its sudden demise on Black Friday, and what’s happened since. Read more
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