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Anyone who plays poker know they have a choice of calling, folding or raising during a hand but few beginners know there are several reasons why a player should be raising the action. Raising not only gives you a chance... Read more

Tags: aggressive play, micro stakes, no limit hold 'em, raise, raising

Poker can be a cruel beast at times and is one of the few games where you can play perfectly and still lose. Think of it this way, if Manchester United played Accrington Stanley one hundred times, you would expect... Read more

Tags: bankroll, bankroll management, bluescouse, chris ferguson, No-limit Hold'em cash games

The stakes will be extremely high when the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event gets underway next month, with the winner set to take home the second-largest tournament payday ever of over $9million, writes Rob Eddy.... Read more

Tags: Cash games, High Stakes, Online poker, Phil Ivey, WSOP

Though I like to almost entirely ignore poker in my writing (perhaps just including the word "poker" itself as a token gesture in the first paragraph) I thought I'd break the mould and respond to a question I faced recently... Read more

Tags: ABC poker, calling stations, KK, neat stacks, poker tools, Virgin Poker Festival

The European Poker Tour has landed in Budapest, Hungary for the very first time in its history and Team Betfair have ended Day 1a in pole position.... Read more

Tags: Annette Obrestad, EPT Budapest, Imper1um, Sorel Mizzi

When John Juanda was crowned the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Champion, the main talking point was the time the final table took to complete. At 22-hours, it was the longest final table in WSOP history, but during the... Read more

Tags: Dave Cain, heads-up, Poker world record, WSOPE

A great playwright once said, "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players". A not so great playwright once said, "Give a man a one-day travelcard and the world is his oyster".... Read more

Tags: bad beats, betfair freeroll, hairy gymnast, live poker, Nick Cantwell, wsope after party

A couple of weeks ago I received a poker e-mail in my inbox. As one of the four hundred poker e-mails I receive daily, I pretty much ignored it - until I noticed the words "win a share of £25k"... Read more

Tags: betfair freeroll, hairy gymnast, live poker, Nick Cantwell, Peter Crouch dance, wsope after party

Ever since poker pro Erik Lindgren beat a burglar to death with a five iron in his house last month he won't stop parading from room to room like some vigilante king. Lindgren's wife, Jean, is grateful that her husband... Read more

Having recently been out to Las Vegas for the WSOP I was looking forward to heading back there with absolutely no work commitments to get in the way of actually sitting down and playing some poker. A decade ago, taking... Read more

There's something magical about returning from a poker game late/early enough that the sun rises as you drive home. Sharing the near-empty 4:30am roads with delinquent foxes kicking over dustbins and smoking cigarettes (I think I saw one lighting up)... Read more

Doctors are saying that poker professional Barry Greenstein's brain subconsciously made room for a catchy TV jingle by deleting valuable space required for his survival instinct. Now severely injured, Greenstein only became aware of the change later, having accidentally walked... Read more

If only you could see what TheWaster has seen with these eyes...... Read more

Tam "BigTam" Gourlay opened his Betfair account on Friday and had qualified for the WSOP Main Event by Sunday. Betfair's Estelle Bentall speaks to Tam.... Read more

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Apart from the obvious general excitement of the tournament, something I'm very much looking forward during the 2008 WSOP is the introduction of Rule 36.... Read more

Cower in fear. Matt Broughton's brain has burst open and the yolk's on you!... Read more

NO sooner has the Poker Anorak spoken of slow play then a row breaks out on the poker forums. Says Garybet: "I've heard that slowrolling is the lowest of the low. Does what you did just now make you a... Read more

In the last couple of days I've posted on my blog my profit/loss for 2008, clear for all to see, along with a detailed graph of my cash game winnings.... Read more

It's been a long time since I posted my WSOPE report but to be honest there's not been a lot going on in between, until recently that is.... Read more

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Just how much help is TOO much help? Matt Broughton ponders...... Read more