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by admin | Aug 19, 2018 | Omaha Hi-Lo
When I first started to play internet poker, I headed for the texas holdem tables. One day, while distracted, I accidentally joined a single table Pot Limit Omaha Hi Lo tournament.
by admin | Aug 18, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
An interesting, complex hand What follows is the first of what likely will be a series of pot-limit Omaha (PLO) practice-hand quizzes, similar to those found in my book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy.
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Wrap, bare nut straight heads up - It's a 50¢-$1 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game on the electronic poker tables at Excalibur in Las Vegas, and you are playing heads up.
by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
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by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | PokerStars
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by admin | Aug 15, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
The future of Las Vegas pot-limit Omaha - Last issue, I mentioned the 50¢-$1 ($100 minimum/$200 maximum) pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game I am hosting on PokerTek's electronic poker tables (PokerPro) in the fully automated poker room at Excalibur in Las Vegas.
by admin | Aug 14, 2018 | Bovada
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by admin | Aug 14, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PartyPoker
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by admin | Aug 14, 2018 | Americas Cardroom
Americas Cardroom Review
by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Bovada
Bovada has a 100% Welcome Bonus that is a great deal for US players. It is unlocked with poker points within the first 60 days of the deposit.
by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
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by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
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by admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Americas Cardroom
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by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
The software at PokerStars is among the best in the online industry. Truly seamless, problem-free graphics and site architecture allow the player to concentrate on playing rather than peripheral problems that might arise at some other sites.
by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Big Straight Draws - Before I discuss shorthanded play in a future column, I should first write a bit about big straight draws and the top drawing-hand structures used to flop them.
by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Full Tilt Poker, Online Poker Reviews
Rush Poker – The Fastest Poker Game in the World! Full Tilt Poker has launched their Rush Poker platform and to say it is intense is an understatement.
by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
The ambiguity of the bet - This is an edited excerpt from Jeff’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Aug 12, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Playing with the initiative, making a combination-call, and value-betting the river - It's a five-handed 50¢-$1 pot-limit Omaha game online (six-max).
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Wrap, bare nut straight heads up It's a 50¢-$1 pot-limit Omaha (PLO) game on the electronic poker tables at Excalibur in Las Vegas, and you are playing heads up.
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Omaha Hi-Lo
In the previous article, we discussed how winners play to scoop the pot. Winners always keep an eye out on how well their cards are coordinated.
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Floating from out of position Editor's note: The following is from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play.
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
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by admin | Aug 9, 2018 | Bankroll Management
So what is a good reason to stop playing? If you think back to your last twenty or so sessions, you have probably quit for all kinds of reasons.
by admin | Aug 8, 2018 | Poker Tips for Beginners
Sometime in the 90s, I enrolled as a computer science student at a certain Canadian university. The first year was tough enough.
by admin | Aug 7, 2018 | Limit Texas Holdem
Bluffing in limit hold’em is an interesting science. In loose games it is usually inadvisable to bluff because your opponents will call down with very marginal holdings.
by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Poker Tips for Beginners
If only somebody would have told me this...
by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Poker Psychology
Everybody likes to think that they are ‘logical’, but in poker as well as every day life, many people show weakness in this area.
by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, William Hill
William Hill Poker does not require a Promotion Code Players from ITH are not required to use a Promotion Code when signing up at William Hill Poker. Should this change in the future, the Promotion Code box listed in your new sign-up screen [as seen at left] will be the place to put a promotion code.
by admin | Aug 4, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
A strategy analysis - Here are a few hands from the regular $1-$2 blinds, $5 bring-in, $500 max buy-in pot-limit Omaha game that a few locals and I started recently at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
by admin | Aug 4, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Slightly different parameters, but the same principle I spent a few days playing in Downtown Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker this year.
by admin | Aug 3, 2018 | BlackChip Poker
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by admin | Aug 3, 2018 | General Concepts & Commentary
Small-stakes game officially born - On Wednesday, July 22, I walked into the poker room at The Venetian with a plan.
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
A strong pot-limit Omaha hand - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Poker Psychology
While many players will tell you that they never go on tilt, this is rarely (if ever) true. What they probably mean is they never notice they are going on tilt and/or they don’t tilt very badly.
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
It’s crucial to the game’s growth “You can shear a sheep many times, but you can skin him only once.
by admin | Aug 1, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Pot-Limit Omaha: FloatingThe key to advanced play Editor's note: The following is a special preview from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, tentatively titled Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Volume II: Advanced Play.
by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | General Concepts & Commentary
For some reason, poker players love to debate the question of whether or not playing winning poker counts as gambling. Intuitively the answer is yes, but winning poker players often don’t see it that way.
by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | Poker Theory
Every player at some point has the experience of playing with a maniac. Nothing changes a poker game quite as much as a loose aggressive player sitting down and taking charge of the game.
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Poker Psychology, Poker Tips for Beginners
Across different poker games, there is one thing that can be counted on: there will be players going on tilt. One often hears hold’em players complaining about losing large pots on the river (“oh man, another suckout, I can’t believe this”).
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PartyPoker
Party Poker Sit and Gos [SnGs]Party Poker offers a large variety of SnGs to their players. Single table, Multi-table, Steps tournaments and their iconic HellKat games are all available to play with a variety of game types like Texas Hold'em, 7-Card Stud and Omaha.
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PokerStars
PokerStars Promotions PokerStars offers a large variety of promotions throughout the year.
by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | BlackChip Poker
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by admin | Jul 30, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Floating with part made hand, part draw, and part air - A lot of times, you will find yourself floating with part made hand, part draw, and part air.
by admin | Jul 29, 2018 | Poker Theory
The expertise involved with calculating odds, surmising hand strength with incomplete information, negotiating with bluffers, and staying within a bankroll all offer lessons that my daughters will eventually learn to apply to other aspects of their life journeys. In this world, I think those are especially valuable lessons and applications for women to have learned.
by admin | Jul 29, 2018 | General Concepts & Commentary
Don’t quit school to play poker! - Editor’s note: This column is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Jul 29, 2018 | bwin, Online Poker Reviews
bwin Poker doesn't currently require the use of a Bonus Code Players of bwin Poker are not currently required to input a bonus code at bwin Poker. Players simply are awarded an initial deposit bonus when they open and create a new bwin Poker account.
by admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Poker Psychology
Anyway, something that really stood out to me was a subject that had nothing to do with actual trading: most of these rare extremely successful traders (including the ones who had families) were completely immersed in the world of the markets. A lot of them were into currencies or foreign markets and would often be in and out of bed during the middle of the night as they glued themselves to their monitors.
by admin | Jul 28, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
To straddle or not to straddle on the button Editor's note: The following is from Jeff Hwang's book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: Advanced Play Vol.
by admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Poker Psychology
We begin the journey the first time we play poker.
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Poker Tournament Strategy
One of the most important things to keep in mind while playing an R&A tournament is that the first hour offers a very different style of play than just about any other possible Hold ‘em table. Typically, you’ll have a fair share of opponents playing a loose/super-aggressive style (LAGs).
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Poker Tells
“If you can’t spot the sucker within 30 minutes of being at the table then you’re the sucker.”
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Americas Cardroom
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by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Bankroll Management
It is not a comfortable thought, but every poker player might one day have to deal with the possibility of losing their entire bankroll. There are a number of ways that this might happen, but essentially it will boil down to one of the following:
by admin | Jul 25, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Pot-limit Omaha players are getting shortchanged - A few issues ago in my column on the bankroll schedule for pot-limit Omaha, I mentioned that while a typical buy-in for no-limit hold'em might be 100 big blinds, in order to be reasonably deep in pot-limit Omaha, you should buy in for more like 150 times the big blind.
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Online Poker Reviews, PartyPoker
Party Poker Cash GamesParty Poker offers a wide variety of cash game options and is well known for some of the loosest cash game poker tables on the internet. Many players who have become very good players online have gotten their start at Party Poker.
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
To continuation-bet or not to continuation-bet - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Jul 24, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
Finding a game that fits the stakes you want to play - Editor’s note: What follows is an edited excerpt from Jeff Hwang’s book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
by admin | Jul 23, 2018 | Poker Psychology
I’m running badly at the moment.
by admin | Jul 23, 2018 | PartyPoker
PartyPoker has offered all kinds of gifts over the years including a Lamborghini!
by admin | Jul 22, 2018 | Pot Limit Omaha
A game of draws - The truth about pot-limit Omaha (PLO) is that about 99 percent of the game is played on the draw.
by admin | Jul 22, 2018 | Limit Texas Holdem
This article will not tell you what is wrong with your game; there are plenty of resources out there to help you with that. This article will suggest ways that you can assess how important leaks are and prioritise accordingly.
by admin | Jul 21, 2018 | Poker Psychology, Poker Theory
Table chat is a long-standing and accepted part of poker, both online and in live card rooms. When playing online, the amount of chatter varies greatly from table to table.
by admin | Jul 21, 2018 | Limit Texas Holdem, Poker Theory
Now, onto some thoughts about the best ways to profit from these subpar players. What are the best ways to accomplish this?
by admin | Jul 20, 2018 | General Concepts & Commentary
What is the appeal of poker?
by admin | Jul 20, 2018 | No Limit Holdem, Poker Tournament Strategy
Turbos have taken off lately due to their reputation as a quick and exciting way to play tournament poker. In this two-part article, I’ll explain how to adapt your game as you move through the blind levels of a Turbo SNG.
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Bankroll Management
The only way to make money at poker is through your opponents’ mistakes. Consequently if you make fewer mistakes than your opponents then you will make money in the long term.
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Poker Tips for Beginners
Some decisions, both game and non-game, are relatively easy to make while others are more difficult. Everyone makes bad decisions from time to time, but the key to being successful is to make as few as possible.
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Poker Tournament Strategy
When I first started out online, I deposited $50, played for a while and lost it. A few months later, did the same thing.
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Bankroll Management
Statistically speaking even if you are a very good poker player, with a huge bankroll, there is a chance that you will eventually run so bad that you will go broke. Unfortunately we can’t eliminate that probability completely but we can reduce it.
by admin | Jul 19, 2018 | Poker Theory
“Your upswing was obviously pure luck (variance) and the downswing was obviously mostly caused by terrible play... at least that's the opinion I've been reading in other threads around here.
