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Changing Gears

Poker words and phrases are used regularly in our conversation. Even the absolute non-player is familiar with the concept of “calling a bluff” or “holding ones cards close to his chest”. Poker...

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Marginal Poker Hands and Domination

Many of today’s poker pundits abhor the play of marginal hands and place enormous stock in rigid starting hand requirements. Of course the poker playing public, who watch the pros on television,...

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WSOP Main Event 2009: The Aftermath

In the last forty years, the World Series of Poker has grown from a group of Texas road gamblers voting on the “second-best” player in the world, to an event of over...

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Take the Money and Run (Hit & Run Strategy)

Here’s a hit and run story. I was visiting the poker room in the Desert Diamond Casino in Tucson, Arizona. It was a smoky pit at the time – well before the...

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WSOP November Nine 2009: Ivey vs Moon

(Why a Phil Ivey Win Would Be Good for the Game – and Why a Darvin Moon Win Would Be a Disaster) It’s that time again, poker fans! The hype and hysteria...

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Good Beats and Bad Beats

Whether a particular poker hand is a good beat or a bad beat is really just a matter of position or more to the point, which end of it you happen to...

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Playing the Wild Man

Good players need to adjust their play to suit different game conditions. I’d like to focus on one particular type of obstacle that you might face in a typical low limit no limit...

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Buying the Perfect Poker Chips

Poker chips, also known as tokens or checks, are commonly used in lieu of cash in even the lowest stakes home games. These small, easy-to-handle discs make the game flow at a...

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Multi Strike Poker

I wrote my first video poker article on a whim and it focused to Jacks or Better. I then felt that an overview of Double Double Bonus Poker was in order as...

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Playing Micro-Limits Online Poker – Part II

First off, I’d like to thank all the poker forum members that gave me such great feedback on Part I of this piece on micro-limit online poker strategy. In that piece, we...

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Daniel Negreanu Profile

Daniel Negreanu, aka “Kid Poker,” may be in his mid-thirties now, but compared to some of the legends of poker, his career has lasted one fourth as long. However, his results compare...

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