Heads Up Sit-n-Gos; How to Conduct Yourself; Patience, Skill and Good Luck

Heads Up Sit-n-Gos; How to Conduct Yourself; Patience, Skill and Good Luck

Poker Strategy With Bryan Pellegrino: Heads-Up Sit-N-Gos Pellegrino Explains The Techniques That Made Him One Of The Best Online Sit-N-Go Players In The Game Today by Steve Schult www.cardplayer.com Bryan Pellegrino has spent years building up an image as one of the most feared high-stake

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A Poker Life - Jake Balsiger; Gambler or Investor? ; 'Rise and Fall' of Absolute Poker

A Poker Life – Jake Balsiger; Gambler or Investor? ; ‘Rise and Fall’ of Absolute Poker

A Poker Life -- Jake Balsiger Balsiger Parlays Main Event Finish Into New Career by Julio Rodriguez www.cardplayer.com As a 12-year-old watching the poker boom unfold, Jake Balsiger dreamed of a future career as a card shark. In his mind, he’d imagine that his $5 home games were instead t

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A Poker Life - Joe Tehan; Big Slick not Ana Kournikova; It's All About Judgment

A Poker Life – Joe Tehan; Big Slick not Ana Kournikova; It’s All About Judgment

  A Poker Life -- Joe Tehan A Game Fanatic Finds His Way In Poker by Logan Hronis WWW.CARDPLAYER.COM Growing up in New York, a young Joe Tehan was a game fanatic. He would come home from school, finish his homework, and then be free to play games of all sorts. His family was full of c

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Pay Attention; Bluffing is Art; Asked and Answered

Pay Attention; Bluffing is Art; Asked and Answered

Poker Strategy With Andrew Brokos -- Learning To Look Left The Benefits Of Paying Attention At The Poker Table by Andrew Brokos Light snow had been falling all day Saturday, and the roads were in worse shape than I expected when I left for the casino shortly after dinner. It took me nearly

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Straddle Strategy in Poker; Poker Life - Carter Phillips; Stick to Your Plan

Straddle Strategy in Poker; Poker Life – Carter Phillips; Stick to Your Plan

Do you ever straddle double Big-Blind bet? Don't! by Irene Edith www.gamingtoday.com The straddle is a strategy occasionally used in poker. Before the cards are dealt, the under-the-gun player makes a double Big-Blind bet. In effect, the player is raising the blinds without seeing his hole ca

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Postflop Blind Defense; Variance in Poker; The Sad Story of Stu Ungar

Postflop Blind Defense; Variance in Poker; The Sad Story of Stu Ungar

Poker Strategy With Ed Miller -- Postflop Blind Defense Going On The Attack After Defending Your Blinds by Ed Miller www.cardplayer.com Blind defense is a tricky topic. When you choose to defend your blind, you’re weighing the value of a discounted call against the information deficit y

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Looking Out for the Ladies in WSOP; When Hunger Strikes!; Risk vs Reward

Looking Out for the Ladies in WSOP; When Hunger Strikes!; Risk vs Reward

Good Looking Out for the Ladies, WSOP By Dan Katz www.pokernewsdaily.com The schedule for the 2013 World Series of Poker was announced last week and with it came the usual commentary from the poker community about what has changed and what has stayed the same. One of the most interesting moves

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Asked and Answered; Handling Big Slick; Build the Pots You Can Win

Asked and Answered; Handling Big Slick; Build the Pots You Can Win

Gavin Griffin -- Asked And Answered Griffin Takes On Questions Of All Kinds by Gavin Griffin www.cardplayer.com People in the poker community often come up to me and ask about whatever is on their mind. Some of these questions are good questions, and some are bad beat stories in disguise

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Bill Boyd - Father of Vegas Poker; Perception in Poker; The Rules Guy Returns

Bill Boyd – Father of Vegas Poker; Perception in Poker; The Rules Guy Returns

Men Of Action -- Bill Boyd The First Modern Poker Room Manager by Bob Pajich www.cardplayer.com Bill Boyd could handle the other teens swaying back and forth to the motion of the boxcar. It was the hobos and the desperate drunk WWI vets who made everyone sleep with one eye open. Boyd was a

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Poker Q and A; Pro Says High Stakes Internet Poker Like Video Game; Get the Right Seat

Poker Q and A; Pro Says High Stakes Internet Poker Like Video Game; Get the Right Seat

Gavin Griffin -- Poker Questions Asked And Answered Griffin Takes On Questions Of All Kinds by Gavin Griffin www.cardplayer.com Gavin Griffin People in the poker community often come up to me and ask about whatever is on their mind. Some of these questions are good questions, and some

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Insane in the Membrane?; Loose, Passive Tables Preferred; Is Poker Gambling or Investing?

Insane in the Membrane?; Loose, Passive Tables Preferred; Is Poker Gambling or Investing?

Dusty Schmidt: This Is My Brain, This Is My Brain On Poker Schmidt Says, 'SuperNova Elite Is Not Good For Your Brain.' by Dusty Schmidt www.cardplayer.com Card Player columnist and blogger Dusty Schmidt posted a blog on Feb 19. The contents of the blog, a discussion of “his brain on po

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It's the Rules ; Betting Big on the River; Opening a Table

It’s the Rules ; Betting Big on the River; Opening a Table

The Rules Guy -- How To Conduct Yourself At The Poker Table The Rules Guy Chimes In On Poker's Unwritten Code Of Conduct by Card Player News Team www.cardplayer.com Most players learn poker’s explicit rules pretty quickly: the “one-chip rule,” for example, or “verbal declarations

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Charging Inferior Hands Makes Money; Liar, Liar OK in Poker; A Solitaire Strategy for Hold'em

Charging Inferior Hands Makes Money; Liar, Liar OK in Poker; A Solitaire Strategy for Hold’em

Poker Pro Joe Tehan: 'Charging Inferior Hands' Is How You Make Money In Poker Cash Game Grinder Says That The Game Isn't About Bluffing by Logan Hronis www,cardplayer.com Joe Tehan has been the epitome of rock solid throughout his poker career. After growing up playing cards against his g

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Poker Promotes a Healthy Brain; Head Games; Small Pocket Pairs

Poker Promotes a Healthy Brain; Head Games; Small Pocket Pairs

Playing poker contributes to 'brain health lifestyle' by Irene Edith www.gamingtoday.com Your brain is a marvelous organ, essential to living a happy and productive life. Cherish and nourish it. Poker can help. Why play poker? Is it only to win money from your opponents? The vast majority

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Poker's Endgame; Video Poker Strategy; Gavin Griffin Q & A

Poker’s Endgame; Video Poker Strategy; Gavin Griffin Q & A

Commentary on The Endgame in Poker Article courtesy of www.lvrevealed.com Introduction It's well known among those who follow tournament poker that Chris "Jesus" Ferguson won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 2000. What's not quite as well known is that in the previous year he wa

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