Saturday, July 31, 2010

Just How Important Is Poker Position?

May 24, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under POKER

When you finally come to appreciate the fundamental mechanics involved in the game of Texas Hold’em you will quickly appreciate that the position of a player will have a major effect on their success. However, before you decry the unfairness of a player being stuck with a bum position all the time, please be aware that the positions will change every turn. This is achieved by the dealer’s button moving around the table in a clockwise manner. The end result? Every player will be adversely affected by the “blinds.”

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How To Manage Your Poker Bankroll

April 9, 2010 by Bill Kernow  
Filed under ONLINE GAMBLING, POKER

A lot of new poker players are often confused about what their poker bankroll guidelines should be. Usually, they are shocked to find out that they need at least twenty times an entry fee in their account. So for example, if you want to learn on $10 tournament tables, your minimum bankroll should be two hundred dollars. If you put one hundred dollars down every time you sit at a no limit cash table, you’re minimum bankroll needs to be $2,000. The higher levels you play, the bigger your bankroll needs to be to flatten out the variance and minimise your chances of going broke.

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Poker Skills – Backing Off Bluffs

April 8, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under Card Games, ONLINE GAMBLING, POKER

Bluffing in online poker can often feel like you are backing away from a fight if your opponent doesn’t seem to want to go away. Even though it’s against your natural instinct to back off, sometimes you just got to do it. A typical situation is when you are the first to enter a pot and decide to raise it up because you have some paint cards. The big blind calls you and the both of you see a ragged flop. Normally, he’s going to check to you, the aggressor in a hand.

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Effective Poker Strategies Against Poor Players

March 31, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under POKER

Losing to players who you know are weak can be frustrating, but the fact is that bad players will get lucky when playing weak hands and outdraw you. You have taken the time to learn the right hands to play, but sorry players seem to frequently defeat you playing weak hands.

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How To Play Big Slick In Poker Tournaments

March 30, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under POKER

Surely ace king is the most overplayed hand in the history of no limit poker tournaments. Specifically when played by players who are impatient or new to the game. Invariably in online poker tournaments whenever someone in a hand is holding ace king you are probably going to either witness or participate in an oversized pot.

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Multi Tabling To Increase Poker Earnings

March 13, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under Card Games, ONLINE GAMBLING, POKER

This concise little guide is designed to enable any profitable poker player to be able to play several tables at the same time, and therefore increase their hourly profits.

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Poker Tournament Skills – Improving Your Game

March 5, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under Card Games, ONLINE GAMBLING, POKER

So you lost a big hand that knocked you out of a tournament, and now you are looking over the hand history to see if you made a error. Reviewing your game is of course essential to improving, but often it’s not obvious what aspects of the game you need to work on. Most likely, some aspects of your game will require more work than others. Here are a few poker skills to work on which should help you see almost immediate results.

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How To Read Opponents At The Poker Table

March 1, 2010 by Billy Kernow  
Filed under POKER

An essential skill of any poker player, whether you’re playing online or offline, tournaments or ring games, is the ability to put your opponents on a range of hands. Your capacity to do this well in your game, will in large part establish your extended success in poker. However, qualifying your opponent’s hand is one of the more complicated aspects of the game to master. These are a few tips to help you progress to being a good hand reader.

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Online Poker Helps Broaden Interst In Game

December 21, 2008 by jack potter  
Filed under ONLINE GAMBLING

 

The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. As you read this article you’ll find that the subject of internet poker is certainly no exception.
Online poker has become one of the most popular games played on the Internet today. With the increase of the number of people [...]

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#1 Secret Poker Strategy

December 21, 2008 by jack potter  
Filed under ONLINE GAMBLING

 

If you have ever played poker before you know that you can obviously see all the players around you since you play in a circle (unless you’re playing online poker). You just figured out the most important part of poker. You may be thinking that that’s impossible.
You probably think that the most [...]

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