October 2009

2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table: The Contenders

Dave Allan / 30 October 2009 / Leave a comment

We continue our preview of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table with the three medium-stacked players, known in this article as The Contenders....Read more »

Poker blog round-up: Would-be, Dungbeetle, DeathByLight and Jethrow

Matthew Pitt / 30 October 2009 / Leave a comment

By some minor miracle I have managed to pull together a poker blog round-up for you, despite a million and one goings on at the moment but that's for another blog entry. Here goes with this week's blogs....Read more »

Balancing ranges from early positions

Marcus Bateman / 30 October 2009 / Leave a comment

One of the most important aspects of poker is thinking about how your actions affect your opponent's decision making processes. A great example of this is in balancing your range from early position, and here I want to look at...Read more »

2009 WSOP Main Event Final Table: The Long Shots

Matthew Pitt / 29 October 2009 / Leave a comment

With the final table of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event almost upon us I thought it would be an idea to give a quick run-down of the November Nine to see who is struggling for form and...Read more »

Loose aggressive style and variance

Marcus Bateman / 28 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Many more players are now playing a loose aggressive style than when I first started playing poker. The combination of lots of the very top players in the game exhibiting master classes in this style on TV, and the general...Read more »

Playing the mid stack in MTTs

Marcus Bateman / 27 October 2009 / Leave a comment

One of the hardest stack sizes to play in no limit hold'em is one between ten and twenty big blinds. Below ten big blinds and your life is pretty simple - the only move you have is to go all...Read more »

Let's off-road!

Matthew Pitt / 26 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Over the last few weeks I have been trying to think of another hobby to occupy me that does not involve poker. My day job revolves around searching for poker stories, writing about the poker world and then playing poker....Read more »

Christophe Benzimra wins 2009 EPT Warsaw

Dave Allan / 26 October 2009 / Leave a comment

The 2009 EPT Warsaw attracted 203 players, all of who were prepared to part with 25,000 Polish Zloty (PLN), creating a prize pool of 4,770,500 PLN or $1,683,509 in "real money!"...Read more »

Grinding down tight players

Marcus Bateman / 24 October 2009 / Leave a comment

A large percentage of the poker players you will ever meet are very tight. They have either been taught - or discovered by themselves - that sticking to only playing premium hands enables them to make money off of weak...Read more »

Poker blog round-up: Custo, Boomtown Poker, Tommy Angelo and Voice of Joe

Matthew Pitt / 23 October 2009 / Leave a comment

It's Friday and that can only mean one thing, it's poker blog round-up time. This will be the last one I write from this house I the Pudding family are upping sticks and moving to a new home sometime during...Read more »

Sorel Mizzi homing in on the money at EPT Warsaw

Dave Allan / 23 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Betfair pro Sorel Mizzi's last minute decision to take part in the EPT Warsaw could turn out to be a great one as he closes in on yet another live tournament cash....Read more »

Being results orientated

Marcus Bateman / 21 October 2009 / Leave a comment

One of the key mistakes weak players make (and a very easy one to spot at that, as players nearly always talk about hands in ways which clearly show this concept), is to be results orientated about a play they...Read more »

Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond installs a slide INSIDE is apartment!

Dave Allan / 20 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Poker players are well known for their extravagant spending habits, be it spending ridiculous amounts of money on meals in Vegas, buying dozens of bottle of Cristal Champagne on a night out or driving around in the latest supercar. However,...Read more »

On the move again

Matthew Pitt / 20 October 2009 / Leave a comment

I need to double check with my parents but I am sure I have some gypsy in my family tree somewhere across the line. I moved out of the family home eight years ago and so far I have lived...Read more »

UIGEA deadline looming

Matthew Pitt / 19 October 2009 / Leave a comment

In just 43 days, on December 1 2009, all financial institutions in the United States of America will have to comply with the terms set out in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act or UIGEA as it is more commonly...Read more »

Calling players out

Marcus Bateman / 19 October 2009 / Leave a comment

One of the most subtle, yet important feature, of all great poker players is the ability to create a positive and easy going atmosphere at the tables. Although their play might be wild, aggressive, and dominating in the game itself,...Read more »

Poker blog round-up: Island Hopper, Paul Foltyn, Nicky Evans and Tiocfaidharla

Matthew Pitt / 16 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Weeeee! Another weekend is upon us meaning we have all once again survived the working week! After my virus last week, I've had to contend with a heavy cold but I've still had time to do the rounds in the...Read more »

AJ Benza axed from High Stakes Poker

Dave Allan / 15 October 2009 / 1 Comments

Series six of the popular poker show High Stakes Poker is about to be filmed but a key man will be missing from action. Popular commentator, AJ Benza has been sensationally axed by the shows producers GSN and is going...Read more »

Comparing an opponent's A game and B game

Marcus Bateman / 14 October 2009 / Leave a comment

The importance of being able to identify regulars, analyse their behaviour, and think about what kind of edge (if any) you have of them should be obvious to any poker player. One of the problems you will see over and...Read more »

'durrrr' Challenge to move to Las Vegas

Matthew Pitt / 14 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Towards the back end of July this year, it was reported that Tom 'durrrr' Dwan was going to take his million dollar challenge to London, in an extension to the online challenge he issued to poker's elite....Read more »

Father Trapp wins $100,000 from a host of poker stars

Matthew Pitt / 12 October 2009 / Leave a comment

The poker playing priest reported on Friday finally played his tournament in Los Angeles and is now even closer to the $1,000,000 first prize than ever before....Read more »

Betfair Online Side Series (B.O.S.S.) a resounding success

Editor / 12 October 2009 / Leave a comment

After weeks of online qualification the inaugural Betfair Online Side Series reached its dramatic conclusion in the early hours of Monday morning when the B.O.S.S. Main Event winner was crowned as well as the three side event winners....Read more »

An eye opening experience

Matthew Pitt / 12 October 2009 / Leave a comment

I joined my first training site over the weekend, Deuces Cracked, and I must admit I am massively impressed but at the same time a little depressed too. I'm impressed because of the sheer quality of the instruction on the...Read more »

Putting it all together

Marcus Bateman / 12 October 2009 / Leave a comment

One of the hallmarks of all the best poker players is their ability to think carefully about every piece of information available to them. Poker is a game of extremely limited information, and as such, every scrap of knowledge that...Read more »

Disguising your own tells

Matthew Pitt / 10 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Blogger Matthew Pitt talks about some of the common techniques employed by poker players to disguise their tells when playing live poker....Read more »

Holy Trapp! A poker playing priest!

Matthew Pitt / 09 October 2009 / Leave a comment

When I think of a priest, I imagine a middle-aged balding man riding a bicycle through his parish. That image may have to be altered to a paintball-gun totting, poker playing twenty-something now that I have discovered Father Andrew Trapp....Read more »

Poker blog round-up: Clarkatroid, Assassinato, TheLipoFund, Willy C and Twitter Poker

Matthew Pitt / 09 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Once again the working week is almost done which means it is time for a poker blog round-up. I'm back in the driving seat after an excellent round-up last week from Mr Dave Allan. Some deep posts this time around...Read more »

The double bluff

Marcus Bateman / 09 October 2009 / Leave a comment

In poker you have to simply try and think on the next level above your opponent. If you can do this, you can effectively trick them into thinking the wrong thing consistently, simply by always being one step ahead of...Read more »

Betfair pros prepare for heads-up battle

Matthew Pitt / 08 October 2009 / Leave a comment

Fresh from their World Series of Poker Europe and EPT London exploits, Betfair pros Annette Obrestad and John Tabatabai will tonight be sitting down and taking on some of the world's best No-limit Hold'em players in a Heads-up Grand Slam....Read more »