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| Some entertaining gambling tales... |
| June 10, 2008 |
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| We all hear bad beat stories, sadly, on a daily basis!! But over the years I have heard some that have stuck in my mind as they had a twist in the tale!! They are all true and I hope you find them as entertaining as I did! Though for some of the people involved “entertaining” is probably not the first word that sprang to mind!! |
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| "There's Always One!!" by Priscilla Ford |
| April 8, 2008 |
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| The banter and chit chat at the poker table is definitely one of the things that makes this wonderful game unique. It is probably the only place where you can have police men and gangsters, models and brain surgeons, all sitting together, and while they sit there they are all relatively equal, the tags they carry that define them in their everyday life are removed and for a few hours at least they share the same hopes and intentions and are just poker players. Poker embraces every walk of life, and it is this eclectic mix of personalities and professions that gives the game one of its most interesting facets, it ensures that every time you play you will be able to mix with all kinds of people, people you may never meet otherwise and though we all play poker to win money this aspect of the game is certainly an added bonus. |
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| Passing Pocket Pairs |
| March 22, 2008 |
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| It is strange but true that passing a pair of pocket aces before the flop is sometimes correct in no limit hold’em.
This may seem contrary to all known hold’em tactics. But tactics come second to strategy – and in super satellites the overriding strategy is to win a seat, not to finish first in the competition.
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| "The Mysticism of Cards" by Priscilla Ford |
| February 15, 2008 |
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| Cards have been used for centuries as a tool for fortune telling. There is much debate about the true origins, though it is generally believed that the first fortunes were told with an ordinary deck of playing cards and that tarot cards came later and it is one of the few forms of fortune telling that is still practiced, and given credence to, today. Though I personally know very little about card reading as I understand it the basis is that the aura of a person will determine the cards that come out and through this, a person who is trained can interpret their future. |
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| "Anyone can learn how to play Poker" by Kate Szeremeta |
| January 11, 2008 |
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| But to become good at the game, to develop into a winning player is not that easy.
As in other games, either card games like bridge; or sports like tennis, golf and football; etc improvements can be achieved in two basic ways. |
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| 7 Card Stud & Limit PLAY - By Priscilla Ford |
| January 7, 2008 |
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| 7 card stud is, unfortunately, a dying game. 10 years ago when I first started playing poker around half of all games and competitions were 7 card stud, although in England this was always played as pot limit. 20 years ago all games were 7 card stud and flop games such as hold’em and omaha were extremely rare. |
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| Bad Beat Stories... |
| November 12, 2007 |
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| Bad beat stories, tales of poker woe in which a hand turns from a cast-iron cert into a disaster, are not normally worth telling.
But here is one which occurred in a cash game which turned into a real nightmare.
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| Mafews Interview by Hassan Peymani |
| April 30, 2006 |
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| We managed to corner one of the internet’s high stakes pro poker players and quiz him on everything from cash and glory to calling people ‘fish’. Mafews is part of a growing number of mouse clicking, internet poker whiz kids who have turned the online poker scene into their personal money printing machine. How exactly do you become a poker pro and what exactly do you when you become one? In between some ludicrous high stakes online action Mafews filled us in. |
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| "Number Crunching" by Hassan Peymani |
| April 26, 2006 |
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| If you want to be a winning player you will eventually have to dust down your calculator and sharpen your pencil. Number crunching is a necessary evil in poker but one you’re advised to put up with. |
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| "Playing the Flop" by Kate Szeremeta |
| March 5, 2006 |
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| Okay,so now you know what cards to play before the flop but what do you do after the flop? Well, at this point there will be one of three outcomes. |
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| "The Poker Player's Guide to Tipping" by Ian James |
| January 16, 2006 |
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| There has been a lot of discussion on the internet forums about tipping in the past several months, some positive, some negative and some just plain, uninformed opinions. As a former international poker dealer I would like to address the issue of tipping and educate new poker players on the facts of tipping a poker dealer. |
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| "I’m a novice. What cards should I stay with?" by Kate Szeremeta |
| December 16, 2005 |
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| Once you know the rankings of hands and the betting structure for hold’em and you’re ready to play, you need to know which two cards ( known as your ‘hole cards’) you should stay with or fold before the flop ( the first three communal cards). |
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| "The Single Table Tournament" by Priscilla Ford |
| December 7, 2005 |
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| After a conversation recently about online poker, I started thinking about the online poker phenomenom which is the "Sit and Go". |
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| "Strategies for Winning online" by Carol Tracy |
| November 24, 2005 |
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| Carol is a regular writer for the IPN.
A carefully thought out plan is necessary to outwit, entrap, circumvent and surprise your opponents with one goal in mind...to take their money. |
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| "Cash Game Play" by Jeffrey Nathan |
| November 19, 2005 |
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| The art of the cash game is complex and intricate because unlike a tournament it is a perpetual process with no definitve"end". For this reason one of the most important aspects of cash game play is good bankroll management and accurate record keeping. |
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| "Multi Table Tournaments" by Priscilla Ford |
| November 16, 2005 |
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| Multi table tournaments are, and always have been, the most popular form of poker. But their popularity has exploded to create some of the biggest prize pools in poker history. |
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| "Internet 'Counter-tells"' by Kathleen K. Watterson |
| October 25, 2005 |
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| I’ve written previously in this column and elsewhere about the ways in which online play is more inherently card-based than people-based — meaning that, in general, it’s best to bluff less, trap more, and let the cards dictate. Most experienced cyberspace players have reached the conclusion that solid online play is more straightforward than traditional live action and less reliant on tells, people-reading or fancy moves. |
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| Aggressiveness on the flop with strong hands |
| March 25, 2005 |
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| To many players with experience, I may simply be restating the obvious. But to some players who are learning the game, consider this to be solid advice. I want to discuss when you should bet and raise and reraise on the flop - "Come out firing" with stron |
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| "New to Internet Poker?" by Mick McCloskey |
| March 20, 2005 |
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| Just a few observations to share. |
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| "Starting Hands" by Gareth 'The Nugget' Jones |
| January 24, 2005 |
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| There are 169 different starting hands in Poker's Texas Hold em, and as such Gareth 'The Nugget' Jones lists his top 10 and 5 worst starting hands. |
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| "Limit Poker" by Peter Costa |
| December 10, 2004 |
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| Peter Costa, one of the world’s top players has very kindly allowed us to use an edited set of beginners’ articles that featured in the Pokereuropa publication. |
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| "Internet Poker" by Gareth 'The Nugget' Jones |
| November 15, 2004 |
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| The Internet is a super way to learn how to play poker and I would say some of the best young poker players around today started off not too long ago on the computer. |
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