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It doesn’t matter how good a poker player is, at some point that player was a beginner and made mistakes the same as other poker players. There are many mistakes players make while they are learning to become better players. Let’s take a look at a few:
Playing Without Sufficient Bankroll
In order to be able to »
To get on the tour you can start by playing low budget satellites. When you win these satellites you can build up to bigger satellites to then get to larger tournaments. If you win at these satellites you will be able to get accommodations along with your buy in at many tournaments including the World »
There are certain elements of etiquette that make the game of poker an enjoyable game. You need to make sure to behave by these and if we do break these we need to apologize. If someone else breaks the rules you should feel comfortable bringing in table manger.
First you do not talk about a hand »
It is important to understand how you hand is going to change as more cards hit the table. People should pay attention how people play on how they enter the flop. What you can do here is see who bets, who raises, who checks or folds. Once you see the flop you can now work »
The rake is the commission that the house takes to cover costs and make a profit for the house. The way this happens is that they take a portion of the winning hand. This will be a percentage of the pot up to a maximum fee set by the casino.
All casinos will partake in raking »
There are situations in the game of poker where a player may want to consider slow playing their hand in order to raise the value of the central pot but executing this in the wrong situations could see your hand falling behind should your opponent not fall into the trap or hit a card they »
Can a female poker player win the WSOP No Limit Championship Main Event? This is a question that I have been tossing around for years. Today, several years after the 2003 poker boom, I decided to revisit this intriguing scenario yet again. Can a woman win the big one? Seeing as the WSOP has been »
With the 2009 Main Event Championship final table just a few weeks away I figured this would be the best time to give you a brief glimpse into each of the finalists. This is now the second year that we have seen the delayed final table. Last year really had no effect on the game »
Lately, I have been on a fairly decent run of cards and have did no worse than cash in most of the last few SnG’s that I have played lately. The ones I didn’t cash in were pretty standard all-in’s with a big hand that was outdrawn. There weren’t very many problems in »
It’s just 27 days until the start of the World Series of Poker. Anticipation is rising as many are looking forward to try and win a coveted WSOP gold bracelet. I am among those looking forward to the WSOP. While I haven’t made my final decision on what I am playing, I »
