Poker Strategies – Page №5
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15 Tips to Improve Your Beat the Clock Win-Rate on PokerStars November 18, 2016It’s PokerStars newest poker variant and it’s strikingly different than anything else. We’re referring to PokerStars’ Beat the Clock hyper turbo 48-player Sit & Go’s. Beat the Clock ignores some…
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If You’re Not Using Deliberate Practice in Poker, You Won’t Win November 12, 2016My son is a math wizard. I hated math. I guess that gene got lost somewhere along the slippery slope. I was talking to him about his math GCSE and he…
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How to Get Home Court Advantage in Poker With Marvin Rettenmaier October 27, 2016It was December 2011 when I saw the switch move into the ‘on’ position inside the mind of Marvin Rettenmaier. He was sitting in the Casino Di Venezia in Venice;…
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How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself at the Poker Table October 14, 2016I looked like the Elephant Man. I had a swollen left eye. My lips were Jagger-esque. And my nose would have broken had a fly landed on the bridge. It…
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How to Beat PokerStars’ Spin & Go: 5 Tips from the Pro September 27, 2016Poker provides many things. Money. Happiness. Intellectual challenge. But when you get right down to brass tacks, professional poker players don’t play for any of those reasons. They play because…
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Poker Tips from Pros: Ring Rust & the Q-8 Rule With Patrick Leonard September 14, 2016Ring rust. Some poker players worry about keeping pace with poker’s strategic progress. I worry about keeping pace with the fundamentals of the game. A hop, skip and a jump…
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8 Critical Mistakes I Made When I Started Playing Poker September 2, 2016Playing too many tables. Treating every player the same. Not understanding basic math. Those were just a few of my early poker-playing sins. Truthfully, some of them are still evident in…
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10 Essential Texas Hold’em Moves: The Check-Raise August 14, 2016Winning at poker isn’t all about good, solid fundamentals. There are a handful of special moves that, when mastered, can make the difference between winning a little, and winning a…
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16 Reasons Why You’ll Never Win at Poker July 27, 2016The whorls on my feet and toes look grotesque. “Are you getting out or not?” asks my wife as she wipes the bathroom mirror with a towel, hairbrush in hand.…
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Let James Woods Be a Lesson: How to Avoid Poker’s Table-Talk Tax July 16, 2016Do you remember when James Woods beat Doug Polk? It was one of the highlights of the 46th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). The pair clashed in the second…
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11 Tricks You Can Use to Crush Your Poker Home Game May 3, 2016Winchy was an Elvis impersonator. He was a lovely bloke. It didn’t happen often – the horses took care of that – but now and then he would buff up…
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Pro Tips: The Biggest Mistakes Poker Beginners Make on Every Street With Nick Petrangelo April 20, 2016In 2015, Nick “caecilius” Petrangelo won over $3.4 million playing cards. I know. It boggles the mind. He’s won the PokerStars Sunday Million. He’s won a World Series of Poker…
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Pro Poker Tips: 4 Spots Where a Call is Better Than a Raise April 4, 2016Should you call or raise? The answer depends on the situation. And yet I seem to have the terrible habit of the ‘one size fits all’ mentality. There was a…
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Find Your Stick: 9 Things Daredevil Can Teach Amateur Poker Players March 24, 2016There are 26 hours of intense, pleasurable Daredevil action on Netflix right now. I’ve loved every minute of it. The Netflix Original Series has broken the old superhero mold and…
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Poker Workshop: How to Make Better Decisions in Poker Tournaments With Rupert Elder March 9, 2016I was there when Rupert Elder defeated Max Heinzelmann heads-up to win €930,000 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event in San Remo. I watched him for hours. Every facial…
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Poker Workshop: Does He Have It? How to Play a Scary-Board Shove With Justin Oliver February 9, 2016Have you ever reached the river of a hand, with the run out producing a straight or flush, and then watched in agony as your opponent applied maximum pressure and…