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The main reason that it is possible to 4 to 8+ table NL Holdem cash games is that for good players the vast majority of "no read" decisions are automatic and instant.
Recently, World Record Week was held on PokerStars. Already the Web?s largest poker site, PokerStars sought to expand its player base and notoriety by attempting to shatter two key industry records: The Largest Online Poker Tournament and the Most Players to Simultaneously Play Poker Online.
Doyle Brunson has come out swinging in his latest blog about Party Pokerco-founder and Wicked Chops fave Anurag Dikshit and his $300 million French-like-capitulation to the U.S. American government.
Here’s a question I hear all the time: “How short a stack can you play before it’s not profitable anymore? At some point the blinds eat you away too fast and you can’t wait for a good hand anymore, right?”
I recently saw an ad in one of the poker publications saying that Gold Coast opened a new poker room, so naturally I had to check it out.
The argument has been raging for years regarding whether or not poker is a game of skill. As poker players, we all know that poker is primarily a game of skill. Luck does indeed play a factor, but the truly successful players are the most skillful.
In a press statement issued on December 26th, the iPoker Network, one of the largest collections of online poker rooms in the world, announced that it will shed itself of NoIQ Poker and Carlos Poker effective in January of 2009.
You nice folks deserve a hand…so here is one I played a few weeks ago. I will make this a column some day, but right now I am in the middle of a lengthy series on how/when to bluff at limit hold’em.
I just got back from a poker session at Caesars Palace. To give you some idea of how quiet Las Vegas is right now, the 9pm bounty tournament ran with 5 players.
Early Saturday morning, DOUBLEBALLER and Ultimate Bet front man Phil Hellmuth were battling against each other. When the smoke cleared in the hand, Hellmuth scooped the pot with a pair of deuces, despite DOUBLEBALLER holding three kings.
An armed robbery took place at the Sahara Hotel & Casino last Friday. Around 6 p.m. on Dec. 19, someone held up the poker room cashier and walked away with an undisclosed amount of money.
There has been another mistake at Pokerstars, this time in favor of the players and this is one that they can't reneg on.
First things first. A while ago, 60 Minutes ran its piece on the UB cheating scandal. I watched it a few days later on DVR, but I don't think I mentioned it here.
UltimateBet's Phil Hellmuth has seen better days. All right now, how many times do we have to say, "Quit playing on UB and Absolute Poker"? How many times? Just when you think UB has bottomed out, another scandal.
So I played the Bloggers final on Pokerstars last night and ended up finishing 78th out of 369, something I wasn't happy with but that's the way it goes.
Saturday I played for quite a while at the Orleans. They have a bad-beat jackpot, and it had climbed over $125,000.
For the last couple of years, the World Series of Poker has held Academies to help players improve their tournament skills. Now, the WSOP is delving into the realm of cash games with their new cash game academies.
Becker will be taking on seven PokerStars qualifiers in a heads-up Battleship-style match for a seat in the 2009 PCA main event. Four of those players are from North America. Battleship Poker is where two players compete in a heads-up poker match sitting across from one another.
I visited Foxwoods over the Thanksgiving weekend with my buddies Jim and Andre and spent much of my time playing $20-$40 limit stud. But after a while I realized that I was up against a table of very good stud players who were unlikely to be replaced by mediocre or poor players. So I dropped down a level to $10-$20.
$10-$20 is generally a more tightly structured game than its big brother $20-$40. This is due to the relatively smaller initial pot relative to the initial bet size. In $20-$40, a full table has an initial pot of $29 in antes and bring-in. If the $10-$20 were comparably structured, this pot would be half that size-$14.50. But it's only $11, nearly 25 percent smaller than it would be if the games were identically structured.
Players are correctly less aggressive about trying to win that initial pot in $10-$20 than they are in $20-$40. Players bluff and semi-bluff less, keeping pots relatively smaller, and resulting in less raising and re-raising... Continue reading Too Tight Is Not Right
I don't know what caused it, but something magic happened at the Jack of the Wood Thursday night. I mean, there's a bluegrass jam there almost every Thursday night. Most nights it's pretty good. Some nights, it's kinda mediocre.
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News Archives19th October 2009 3:08pmSource: Poker News HeadlinesIs SEGA Poker On The Way?
Video game provider SEGA could be set to launch their own poker and casino platforms following the granting of a gambling licence by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission today.
18th October 2009 10:25amSource: GoodLuck Poker BlogThe 5 Dumbest Things I Ever Did Playing Poker
As with anything new in someone's life - whether it's a new job, or a new recipe or even a new game, you have to learn about it before you can say you understand it. Same thing goes for poker.
17th October 2009 10:32pmSource: Poker News DailyFull Tilt Responds to Poker Bot Lawsuit
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker is known for keeping mum when it comes to its legal and business matters, but the company broke its silence to comment on a recent lawsuit by former customers Lary Kennedy and Greg Omotov.
16th October 2009 7:02pmSource: TJ CloutierFrom Canada to Texas: Football & Poker
Anybody who sees me at a poker table says that I look like a football player. And of course, that's what I was in my youth. After I got out of the Army, I signed on as with the Montreal Allouettes, where I played first string tight end until I was traded to the Toronto Argonauts.
14th October 2009 8:05pmSource: Poker News DailyDoyle Brunson Inducted into Hardin-Simmons University Athletic Hall of Fame
Legendary poker player Doyle Brunson will be feted yet again on Friday night, but not for any of his performances over his 50-plus year career in the game of poker.
13th October 2009 6:50pmSource: PokerListings.comWSOP introducing November Nine Academy
The final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event represents the pinnacle of a poker player's career, but every player has to start somewhere.
12th October 2009 10:05amSource: Poker King BlogA.J. Benza Out as Co-Host of High Stakes Poker
When "High Stakes Poker" returns for its sixth season in February of 2010, there will be one major change - A.J. Benza will no longer be a part of the show.
9th October 2009 5:18pmSource: Poker News DailyAaron Gustavson Defeats Peter Eastgate in EPT London
As the great wrestler Ric Flair said, ?To be the man, you gotta beat the man!? In this week?s finale of the European Poker Tour?s (EPT) London stop, Aaron Gustavson did just that, besting reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate heads-up.
7th October 2009 7:04pmSource: PokerListings.comdurrrr Challenge: The half way mark and more
Possibly getting underway with the half-way goal in mind, the latest session in the durrrr Challenge only ended after a total of 1,063 hands were played.
6th October 2009 6:36pmSource: Poker News DailyDoyle Brunson Advocates WSOP Europe Venue Change
Even though he has more than 50 years in the poker world under his belt, poker legend Doyle Brunson continues to be one of the leaders in the community, advocating suggestions for improvements to the industry.
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