06 Apr 09 Follow The Pros On Twitter.com
There is a new way to get poker updates and feeds from your favorite poker players. Twitter is a new site that allows you to follow your favorite players or poker sites and get updates on anything from how they are doing in their tournaments or what kind of coffee they ordered. It is different from Facebook and Myspace because you can follow anyone and get their live updates, but there isn’t the fuss of photo albums (more…)
03 Apr 09 The Ten Big Blinds Rule
How many times during a tournament do you see a player fold, fold, fold their hands during the late stages of a tournament, letting their chip stack get so small that they would need to double up 2-3 times just to put themselves back in contention? What these players fail to grasp is the Ten Big Blind Rule. The concept is, you do not let your stack dwindle below a total of ten times the current big blind. If/when you do find yourself find (more…)
01 Apr 09 Playing Monster Sized Tournaments
Unless you’re able to fork over at least $1,000 or more to play in a WSOP event, your only chance to play in a tournament with a giant field is going to be online. These super events can be a lot of fun to play in, but the number of entries is so deep that it can take a very long time to find yourself in the money, and even then, the early paid positions usually just provide your money back plus an extremely small (more…)
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31 Mar 09 Weekly Sit & Go Tip: 1st Place or Bust
For the past two months or so, I’ve found myself playing Sit & Go’s almost exclusively, in fact currently I am up to 11 straight cashes in S&G’s at the moment. Both recently and long before my current streak, I had the opportunity to both play and observe a lot of S&G action when all the remaining players at the table were in the money, which is normally the top three spots of a typical nine player single table freeze out. What I noticed (more…)
30 Mar 09 Dream Team Poker
A new facet of poker is beginning to open up with the concept of team poker tournaments. Last November, The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas hosted a team poker event. This event was private and only open to the industry, but it had such a following that Dream Team Poker decided to make it a public event. On March 27-29th Caesars Palace will be hosting the event for any team of three that would like to play. The scoring system is different than (more…)
27 Mar 09 Calling an All In With Ace Rag
Earlier this week I was playing a tournament online and had pushed my stack of $22,000 with AQs. The blinds were at $1,000/$2,000 with a $300 ante which was high enough that I couldn’t just raise with my stack, and I was hoping to double up if I got called. Sure enough I was insta called by the big blind who had $30,000. I considered that I was against a pocket pair, AJ, AK, or KQ. No, I was happily surprised when I was called by A3 off (more…)
26 Mar 09 Folding a Hand: Not A Terrible Idea
How many times have you been sitting in a game and watched someone call numerous big bets all the way to the river, only to flip over some weak hand such as second pair when the board was full of big cards and/or flush/straight draws? The phrase “getting married to a hand” is quite accurate, as players that suffer from this tendency have trouble letting go of a average/drawing hand until death do you part. Strong poker playing is not just (more…)
25 Mar 09 Don’t Bait The Sharks
Play enough poker and you’ll run into players who just seem to outflop and outplay you every step of the way. Unfortunately, many of us can only take so much of this abuse and will try to constantly attack and take chips away from these opponents, only to find that more often than not we just end up losing more chips. If you have a maniac at the table that’s just playing terribly, you need to just pick the right opportunity to strike. (more…)
24 Mar 09 Calling A Clock
Sometimes I imagine a poker world where each player is hooked up to a set of electrodes and if they don’t make a decision within a specific time period “ZAP!” they are forced to fold or make a decision by a refreshing stream of electrodes. Since we don’t live in my perfect world and there are no time regulations in live games, what constitutes adequate time for live action? There is definitely a fine line when calling a clock on someone (more…)
23 Mar 09 Friday Night Action
There are days where I just want to stay in bed and munch on chips and dip all day while playing multiple tournaments online. However, I have to motivate myself to get in the shower and drag myself to the overcrowded casino because it is Friday night and the games are supposed to be good. These days it seems like such a hassle to get in my car and drive to the casino because the economy isn’t that good and there just isn’t as much easy (more…)
