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July 6, 2009

poker strategy

How to defend your big blind.

As you probably know, defending your big blind isn’t that easy to do. Due to the fact that you’ll be out of position for the entire hand. Except if your against the small blind. So its highly important that you respect the advantage your opponent has if you do get into a pot from the [...]

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July 6, 2009

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Playing small pairs in early position

Playing small pairs in early position has always been a debatable subject. But in my opinion there is one option that is better than the rest, especially in No Limit Texas Holdem tournaments.
Hopefully, flopping three of a kind is the main reason for playing small pocket pairs. This is where the value of playing small [...]

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July 6, 2009

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Online Poker Players Vs Live Poker Players

Over recent years, a battle has been occurring regularly at the online and live poker tables. The seasoned online poker player vs the season live poker player. Where as about 10 years ago some live players had to travel miles just to find a game of poker, now a days the only journey players have [...]

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June 12, 2009

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How to combat three betting

As you have probably noticed or at least read previously, poker and texas holdem in recent years is becoming much more aggressive. This is due to the fact that the young and up and coming poker players have the ability to play seven years worth of poker in a year online. So they are developing [...]

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June 11, 2009

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When and why to use Three betting

In the past few years poker, especially no limit holdem, has changed due to the large amount of young online players being able to play a massive amount of hands online at sites like Fulltilt and Everest. These online texas holdem players are much more aggressive pre-flop. A few years ago if a player re-raised [...]

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June 10, 2009

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The Stop and Go Play

Every tournament poker player has a bag of tricks.  A highly effective poker strategy utilizing the Stop and go play can help a tournament poker player really catch his opposition off guard.  When this strategic play is appropriately used, the stop and go strategy can help you take your game to the next level.  Whether [...]

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