Anyone who plays poker for a living knows that the worst thing that can happen to a player is to have another pick up on a tell of his or hers. A tell allows another player to play better based on knowing what sort of cards an opponent has. It allows them to fold when […]
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Unlike Texas Hold ‘Em and, to a smaller degree, Omaha Hold ‘Em, the game of Seven Card Stud does not get much publicity from television and/or poker players around the world. This can be attributed to the fact that Seven Card Stud is a slow and somewhat boring game compared to the other two. While […]
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If you watch poker on TV a lot or read poker blogs of bigger players, you may here experienced players state that certain hands shouldn’t have been played and that certain hands are hard to fold. But how, exactly, do these players know which hands are good and which aren’t? The obvious answer is that […]
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The term World Series is one that has been placed on many big sporting events. The biggest, of course, is the Fall classic featured by Major League Baseball. Over the course of the past few years, however, the rise in poker popularity has caused the World Series of Poker Main Event to undertake a drastic […]
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In a perfect poker world, no one would lost big hands on the river and those who foolishly make bad calls would always lose hands they deserve to. In reality, however, many have experienced bad beats in which an unlucky turn or river has defeated a previously superior hand. In many cases, these hands can […]
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Its almost inevitable; a new player plops down at a table of a poker game he has never taken part of before and immediately begins to anger the table with his erratic and unacceptable behavior. You have probably seen someone make a fool of themselves on television in a poker game. You may sit at […]
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Now that we have had a little time to allow the aforementioned Golden Rule of Omaha poker sink in, its time to get into some simple strategic moves. Before we begun, I should warn any who try this game that he or she should not expect to win using Texas Hold ‘Em strategies. Texas Hold […]
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Most people who play poker have heard the factoid, mostly based on opinion, that poker is eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. The luck, of course, delves from needing the right hands, flops, rivers, and so on to win hands. There are nights when even the best poker player in the world can lose […]
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In the 1998 movie Rounders, the main character picks up a tell on the antagonist in a heart-pounding, “for all the marbles” poker game. The tell, as most poker fans know, is that KGB, the opposing poker player, enjoys an Oreo cookie in a different way than usual when he holds a good hand. This […]
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One of the most frustrating parts about Texas Hold ‘Em poker is waiting for a good hand. New players often find it hard to sit at one table for hours upon hours before getting a big hand like they see on TV. Texas Hold ‘Em requires lots of patience and most players won’t get hands […]
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